Language
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2010-08-12 20:54."Pre-operative transsexual"? This is sort of language is not well-received among transgender folk. It's disrespectful. There was no need to mention this. "Transsexual" is an adjective, in any case. You could easily have described Destiny as a "transwoman", which is someone identified male at birth who later transitions to a female modus vivendi.
There's good advice to be had at Trans Media Watch http://www.transmediawatch.org.uk on the subject.