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Let's start with God. The answers are always easier that way. Someone I am most fond of once told me, "I pity atheists you know. Because they can't ever blame God. They don't have the privilege to ask 'why God, why did you do this to me'." 
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	When the greater religions put a gun to our head and threatened us to jump in its well, we jumped. Who knew at the bottom of that well, we would find our superhero who went by the name Evolution? 
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	Dismissing the need for any probation, evolution soon became the king of the jungle. When it roared, the jungle went into submission. But as we all know, no jungle worth its salt ever came without its poachers. The poachers came in the avatars of kings, queens, ministers, presidents, governors, and most importantly, our parents and communities. They drew the lines. The ones we were strictly told not to cross. 
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	But, the thing is, our DNA came with an eraser, pencil, canvas, and a grave full of imagination. So even when we were put to rest, we dreamt. Our dreams made love to our mother earth, who politely went ahead and conceived the future of tomorrow. 
<br /><br /> When the tomorrow came, a man was born. He was named <keyword id="2898267" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="William-Bruce-Jenner">William Bruce Jenner</keyword>. Six and a half decades later, in June 2015, he stood on top of the world and announced that he had changed his name to Caitlyn. <keyword id="2879531" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Caitlyn-Jenner">Caitlyn Jenner</keyword>. The world stood back in the stands and cheered him from all corners. Before the announcement, William had made all the required configurations in his physical geometry to align his chemistry to the integrity his new name would demand. <br /><br /> "I am so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me." Caitlyn posted on her <keyword id="6354616" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitter">twitter</keyword> handle @Caitlyn_Jenner, which, along with the first tweet of her <keyword id="5962" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vanity-Fair">Vanity Fair</keyword> cover went on to get a record-setting 1 million fans in less than 4 hours and 3 minutes straight. Whereas the most powerful man on earth, <keyword id="15962" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Barack-Obama">Barack Obama</keyword> had taken 5 hours to pull the hanky 1 million in his Presidential twitter followers basket, last month. <br /><br />

	Wish Dora was here now to shower under the petals from the high gardens of Twitter. Dora, born as Rudolph R, was the first person to have gone under the knife in the first-ever recorded sex reassignment surgery (SRS) in 1931. 
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	Long before Dora or Caitlyn, the mythologies blow mighty trumpets of accounts concerning legends who were both man and woman in one form. There was the blind prophet, Tiresias, who constantly interchanged in his genders and said to have compelling wisdom for this very reason. Then we have the famous Cupid, the God who is responsible to make or break our hearts with our better halves, apparently, is a unisex God. Born to high-profile parents Hermes and Aphrodite, Cupid's father, Hermes, is the inspiration for the term 'hermaphrodite' - used to describe a being with both male and female sexual characteristics and organs. 
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	Even though the hand holding the umbrella for transgenders is the same, all five fingers of that hand are not. The race to attaining transgender nirvana has been chalked with 5 different tracks. The tracks are identified as transexual, transvestite, genderqueer, androgene, and bigender. 
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	Writing about transgenders is hard. Being them is even harder. A left-hand car comes straight from the factory and claims that it feels very much right-handed. And without a steering or permit, the car just drives along pretending the car is indeed right-handed. Then, there is the car that feels that it is neither right-handed nor left-handed, but centre-handed. It's complicated. The transgenders don't have it easy. 
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	Harry Benjamin, the famous German-American sexologist and chief medical advisor to Christine Jorgenson (the ex G.I. who, before Caitlyn Jenner, 60 years ago, became the pioneer in America for stealing all shows concerning her sex reassignment surgery), said, "Our genetic and endocrine equipment constitutes either an unresponsive/fertile soil on which the wrong conditioning and a psychological trauma can grow and develop into such a basic conflict that subsequently a deviation like transsexualism can result." 
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	Let me give you an example. When androgen receptors (a nuclear receptor that regulates gene expression) is said to have a firm handshake with testosterone or dihydrotestosterone (sex steroid), it will lead to the formulation of primary and secondary male sex characteristics. Whereas, instead of a handshake, if the androgen receptors and testosterone have a face-off with each other, their alliance will be broken. Meaning, a person who is assigned as 'male' at birth will come to feel and identify that he belongs to the opposite sex. 
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	Again, it will be a blasphemy to summarise the identity of one's gender purely by a single theory alone. There are potent men with healthy-sized penis who feel that they should be women, just as there are women who are attractive, wear feminine clothes, and are perfectly capable of conceiving, yet feel the urge to be in a man's shoe. 
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	Going by the biological complexity and psychological curiosity, it is evident that Agent X and Agent Y from the Sperm Maker Inc., when it comes to adjudicating the gender of a person, are futile as a burp in a storm. 
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	Oppression, degradation, prejudice - a staple diet in the menu of transgenders, have been pricked with brutal attacks for holding a balloon called 'me'. 
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	In 1513, when the Spanish conquistador - Vasco Nunez de Balbao, found that a village in Panama had men who dressed as women, and ordered 40 of them to be "torn to pieces by dogs". 
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	In 2008, Larry King was shot twice in the head by a fellow student at his school in Oxnard, California. Larry had come out as gay. He was 15 when he was killed. The guy who shot him was 14 years old. 
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	Last week, Stephanie McCarthy, a transgender musician, who was just about to play her gig, was assaulted by five men at the Newtown Town Hall Hotel in Sydney. 
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	Then again, we have come nowhere as close as today, when it comes to fighting for transgender rights. With Poland's Anna Grodzka, becoming the first transexual MP in Europe to Donald Trump changing the rules in Miss Universe pageant that allowed Kylan Arianna Wenzel, the first transgender to participate in a Miss Universe competition to Madame Tussauds, San Francisco, recently announcing that it will feature a wax figure of Laverne Cox on June 26 during the Pride Week, the world of transgenders is on a progressive track. Laverne became the first ever transgender to star in the prestigious museum. 
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	From the Indian wave, we have Manobi Bandopadhyay, who became India's first transgender college principal when she took charge of Krishna Women's College in West Bengal earlier this month. In 2014, the Supreme Court of India validated 'transgender' as the third sex. 
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	With Caitlyn Jenner's announcement, the transgender community in America and around the world are positive that going forward, they will be able to see better days. 
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	Obama, the first African-American to hold the office, was the first chief executive to inculcate the word 'transgender' in a speech, also openly prohibited job bias against transgender government workers, replied to Caitlyn's second-ever tweet when she expressed her joy about finally being able to come out, "It takes courage to share your story." 
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	History is an ambitious gold digger eager to marry the most sought-after bachelor 'first-ever'. This century, we have had the privilege to see the changes the yesteryears had been begging and crying and hopelessly getting whipped, just so they could be somewhere around the aroma of this day. Now we are finally here. 
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	Just as Mr Obama praised Caitlyn, yes, while it takes courage to share the story, it takes more courage to live the story, and it takes greater courage for us to let them live their story. 
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	Whether it is through God, or evolution, when you let them be, they let us be. Because we need to be. 
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	So a transgender - Warden of all the Nations and saluted by Air Force One? I don't see why not. 
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(image credits: Alberto Frank- Flickr)<br />

Caitlyn Jenner Is Proving That Trans Is Indeed Trance. So You Think We Could Ever Have A Transgender As The Next U.S. President?

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Ahead of Bruce Jenner's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bruce-jenner-interview-says-hes-a-woman-2015-4" target="_blank">bombshell interview</a> with Diane Sawyer Friday night in which the Olympian-turned-reality star revealed <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bruce-jenner-interview-says-hes-a-woman-2015-4" target="_blank">"I am a woman,"</a> the doting dad gathered all of his children in a room and braced them for what he was about to tell the world.<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"The reactions were varied," Jenner told Sawyer. "Because the kids are all very protective."</span><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><br /></span></p><p><span>While Khloe "<span>had the toughest time with it," Jenner says that "Kim&#xa0;<span>has been, by far, the most accepting and easiest to talk to about it."</span></span></span></p><p><strong>After the interview aired, Kim posted to her 30.6 million Instagram followers:</strong></p><p><strong>"Love is the courage to live the truest, best version of yourself. Bruce is love. I love you Bruce. #ProudDaughter"</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>&#xa0;</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>"It might not always be easy but we support you no matter what! Your honesty has opened the doors for others to be courageous and live an authentic life! #respect #hero #family"</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>&#xa0;</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>While Jenner said Khloe "has had the toughest time" accepting his news, she did show her support Friday night both via Twitter:</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And Instagram:</span></strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>&#xa0;</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Sister Kylie posted the below before the interview ran:</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>"daddy throwback. #Tonight #DianeSawyer #ABC #love"</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>&#xa0;</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>And tweeted this after:</strong></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Kendall also tweeted after the ABC special:</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Kourtney Kardashian also stuck to Twitter, posting:</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Even brother Rob chimed in:</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>&#xa0;</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jenner's sons with Linda Thompson were also supportive. Brody Jenner posted this touching photo to Instagram:</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>"You won another gold tonight. I stand with you on this journey. I love you Dad"</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>&#xa0;</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Brandon Jenner, who appeared on Friday's special, confirmed his support via social media:</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>"Proud son."</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>&#xa0;</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Even Jenner's ex-wives posted their support!</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Linda Thompson, whom Jenner was married to&#xa0;<span>from 1981 to 1984, showcased a collage on Instagram:</span></strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong><span>"Once a champion of Olympian magnitude...now a champion for those who share the struggle to just be who they are."</span></strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>&#xa0;</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>And Kris Jenner, who was married to Bruce from 1991 to 2015, tweeted:</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Many celebs tweeted their support as well:</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/people-london-betting-royal-baby-names-prince-william-kate-middleton-2015-4">Betting odds predict the most popular names for Prince William and Kate's new baby</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="FhNGNvdDoWBPBAJnpsG0Il4XMudQG-OZ" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Here's how the Kardashian family is reacting to Bruce Jenner's big announcement

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A prominent civil rights leader who most people believed to be black is actually white, according to her parents - and Twitter's freaking out about it.</span><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/an-naacp-leader-in-washington-state-was-just-accused-of-pretending-to-be-black-2015-6">On Thursday</a>, the parents of Rachel Dolezal - the head of a local NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washginton - <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/naacp-leader-in-washington-state-who-pretended-to-be-black-2015-6">told multiple news outlets</a> that despite "disguis[ing] herself" as black, their daughter's heritage was Czech, Swedish, and German with "faint traces" of Native American heritage.</p><p><a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jun/11/board-member-had-longstanding-doubts-about-truthfu/">Her mother also told The Spokesman-Review</a> that they didn't know why their daughter would "disguise herself" as black since 2006 or 2007 with a perm and noticeably tanner skin. Now, she's been elected head of a local chapter of the NAACP.</p><p>Some people on Twitter are now saying Dolezal is "transracial" - both seriously as well as jokingly - equating the term with being transgendered. The false logic goes that the same way a transgendered person is born with the wrong anatomy, a person can be born with the wrong race.</p><p>But the term "transracial" has never been used this way. Historically, transracial is used in regards to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_adoption">interracial adoption</a> - also known as transracial adoption - and has nothing to do with people from one race "identifying" as another race.</p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>But the term quickly went viral on Twitter anyway, first&#xa0;</strong><a href="http://mic.com/articles/120574/here-s-the-most-important-thing-to-take-away-from-the-rachel-dolezal-controversy"><span class="s2"><strong>spotted by MIC's Darnell L. Moore</strong></span></a><strong>:</strong></span></p></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#xa0;</span></p><p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Soon, people began fighting back against the concept of switching races - without either realizing or citing that "transracial" has a totally different definition that has nothing to do with changing one's race.</span></strong></p><p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">There were also a few jokes.</span></strong></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#xa0;</span></p><p class="p1"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="s1">This is also not the first instance of someone on Twitter using the term transracial in this way.</span></strong></p><p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Back in April, a Twitter user used screen shots of what was quite possibly a joke statement by someone claiming to be a white woman wanting to be "trans-black." She used stereotypes to bolster her claim.&#xa0;</span></strong></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#xa0;</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Not all Twitter users misinterpret the term "transracial." </strong></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong><strong><span class="s1">If you keep going back in Twitter's history, you'll see that before the Dolezal news broke, the most common use for the #transracial hashtag was in tandem with the hashtag #adoption, referring to interracial adoption where a child from a different race is adopted by parents from a different race, for example&#xa0;<a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/01/_3_black_adoptees_speak_about_growing_up_with_white_parents.html%20"><span class="s2">white parents adopting a black child</span></a>.</span></strong></strong></span></p><p class="p1"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;&#xa0;</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#xa0;</span></p><p class="p1"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="s1">So unless they're referring to interracial adoption, you can show this tweet to anyone in favor of the&#xa0; #transracial hashtag on Twitter:</span></strong></p>

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