Viral single girl in the "Kinks Shirt" gives a rise to trans cisgender amour

To many, transgender people remain a oddity, not a focus for adulation. Granted we have differences but crossing the gender divide is Matt Nathanson with his new single "Kinks Shirt".

The clip features a love story involving a transgender individual and -- refreshingly -- approaches the relationship in an incredibly nonchalant way.

"The thing I love about this video is that it shows two people in love and it never makes a big deal out of the fact that one is trans," said Nathanson in a statement to The Huffington Post. "The video is touching and funny, while at the same time making a very definite statement about equality and acceptance. Let people be who they are... the only way forward in this life is with acceptance and equality for everyone, period."



You can buy Kink Shirt and other fabulous music from Matt at iTunes and on twitter at @mattnathanson

Chelsea Manning's bid for transition is a bit of a conundrum for the Army

Inadvertently Chelsea Manning might have started the Army gender revolution.

Some believe Chelsea Manning is a patriot railroaded by the military machine simply for exposing its wilful and joyful slaughter of Innocent civilians.

Some see Chelsea Manning as a Benedict Arnold of the Internet age and believe her sentence fair.

Almost everyone of us in the LGBT community would find it inconceivable to be denied transition for 35 years. I say almost everyone because this is a highly divisive topic and my empathy for Manning's plight has drawn the ire of some of our friends.

Many believe she did the crime now she's got to do the crime. (how many more countries will ask for the Wikileaks papers before she's released?)

Crime or not the ARMY has a moral duty to their prisoners.

Army Regulation AR 501 para 2-27 finds a person unfit to enlist and unfit for duty if the individual has a "Current or history of psychosexual conditions including, but not limited to transsexualism, exhibitionism, transvestism, voyeurism, and other paraphilias".

The Army bases this exclusion on the prognosis by the APA DSM.

The Army considers transexulism as a mental illness and the Army spokesman for Fort Leavenworth stated they have Manning's well being in mind.

But they won't if they don't give her the opportunity to transition.

In fact, as Kristin Beck who called her a traitor pointed out it would be cruel and unusual punishment to deny her the dignity of living in her correct for what could be the rest of her life.

Quite a conundrum, maybe a revolution.