Dear GayCalgary Magazine,

As a straight man waiting for transgender reassignment surgery into a woman, I am beyond heartbroken at Tom Flanagan’s comments. For years I have been dating a woman who accepts that I wish to be gender female like her, but will still love her as a wife just as much as I would as a husband. Once my transformation is complete, as spouses we will do our best - nay, our very best - to fight the horror that is child pedophilia. We will get all of the people that we can muster from the LGBTQ sphere to rise up and say that healthy sexual relations should be contained to couples who are of legal age, whether they be gay, straight, or bisexual.

Mr. Flanagan and his like have no place in civilized society, so my fiancé came up with a unique idea for his fate. My future Mrs. proposes that Mr. Flanagan be forced to learn crisis counseling and perform one-thousand hours of community service in a sexual assault centre, counseling child sexual assault victims. He can tell them that they will in fact get help, and most importantly, that they are now safe and are not at fault for what occurred.

Regards,

Walter Dean Blake

aka "Juanita Diane"