1984 story on sex-change 'debate' shows its dramatic shift

The Vancouver Sun’s librarian recently dug up a 1984 feature I did on people who are transgender. The headline read,  “People trapped in the wrong body. Sex-change stigma lingers.”
The story described the difficult, sometimes tragic, lives of several Vancouver transsexuals I interviewed, some of whom did not use their real names.
The 1984 story is a far cry from most of the enthusiastic articles I saw this week on the Internet. It highlights how the transgender discussion,