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A big congrats to Caitlyn Jenner on her big reveal and lovely Vanity Fair cover! But I am having a crisis of conscience. On one hand, I support a person’s right to be whoever the heck they want to be. You want to wear women’s clothing and use makeup and style your hair? You look fabulous! You want to carry a pillow around with an anime character on it and get married to it, like a guy in Korea did? Congrats! You want to collect creepy lifelike dolls and push them around in a stroller, like a woman on Staten Island does? Great! But I’m confused where we draw the line. When a thin person believes they’re “fat” and then dangerously restricts their food intake, we can have that person committed. Most doctors won’t amputate your arm simply because you feel you were meant to be an amputee. But when a man decides that he...