Pilgrim,

You're definitely right to put sex-change operation in quotes. It's not possible for one to change their gender and any operation is simply a mutilation. We are male and female right down to the chromozones at the cellular level. We are spiritually male and female as well, even those who feel they are a woman trapped in a man's body...that's a mental illness and should be treated as such. The success of ministries helping homosexuals such as Exodus International is that they help people to reacquire their sexual identity.

The one thing I dread happening is to have somebody in the workplace get a sex-change op or says they have had one and they are no longer male. That person would change their name to a female one and expect everyone to refer to him in female pronouns. It's a deception I couldn't go along with and I would be put in the uncomfortable position of not talking to that person or about him. His extra-constitutional right to have his decision respected would trump my constitutional right to practice my faith and beliefs by not accomodating a lie. Of course, this is hypothetical only and the good Lord has spared me this gauntlet so far.

Liberalism -- Ideas so good, they have to be mandated.