Some time ago, the SF Examiner did a story about two parents of a small girl who lives with each parent a week, then with the other the next week. She only needs to go next door, as the parents bought houses next to each other so the child could be close to both. This is joint custody, San Francisco style.
The mother of this child is a lesbian, and the father is gay--they were orginally straight and were married to each other. But they divorced and became gay and lesbian. Both now live with their lovers. Okay, this is San Francisco.
Weeks later, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, refusing to be outdone in its race for strangeness, published an article about a previously married man who is not only no longer married but is no longer a man. That's not all.
The man is now a woman--and a lesbian woman at that. And, of course, why not make money off this strangeness? --so he/she is writing a book on his "reengineering"--The Reengineering of Nancy. This seems like a long way around to the thing he already had. Did I miss something?
San Francisco is such a fun place to live in. But maybe I missed something in my education or nurturing. I was raised in San Francisco, but even for San Francisco, this is strange. []
Frank A. Jones and staff
12/3/01
