Don’t Ask Don’t Tell U

It looks like the university named after the father of our country has figured out a way to move gender studies to the next level. “Every Wednesday afternoon this past summer, a retired Army colonel named Jeff left his consulting job at a military base and headed to George Washington University,” Jennifer Ruark reported in the September 7, 2007 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. “But first he stopped at home to change into a skirt.”

“By the time he arrived at the university’s Speech and Hearing Center, Jeff was Sheri, one of several tanssexuals undergoing therapy at the clinic to make her voice sound like a woman’s.” Mary Elizabeth Moody runs the voice clinic there.

“The center treats deaf children, stutterers, and people with all sorts of communicative disorders, but at least a third of Ms. Moody’s clients at George Washington are men at some stage of transforming themselves into women.”

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.