The whole transgender thing has been relatively new on my radar, just the past couple of years. I guess that since I'm used to thinking about gender and various orientations and hermaphrodites just as a start, trans* individuals don't seem strange to me at all. But to 'conventional' society, whatever on earth that may be, I can imagine that anything that doesn't fit conveniently within expected parameters is confusing and probably discomfiting. It's a really great documentary. I'm getting the A&E "Transgender Revolution" that she did first via interlibrary loan. I'm sure that will be an eye opener as well.