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On the one hand, what was done to her was horrifying and obviously completely unjustified. These people should be locked up for life, IMHO.
On the other hand, I completely disagree with "fact" number one. Only rarely is sex voluntarily based on misrepresentation; usually people expect that sex between two people implies an honesty and openness not shared by two people on the street.
Lying by omission is still lying. If I sleep with someone, and later find out they have an STD that they did not tell me about voluntarily, they have lied to me. I don't care if they were "expressing their healthy identity" or not, I had an expectation and an understood assumption about what this act entailed when I consented to it, and disease wasn't on the list.
In the same way, unknowing partners of transsexuals have an expectation and understood assumption that the act involves no penis. It doesn't matter if the penis is attached to someone who feels like a woman on the inside; it would be just as wrong to hide any other pertinent secret from a sexual partner. She should be having sex with people who know that she's a woman on the inside (and not on the outside.)
In summation... zips up flame-suit To me it almost feels like she kind of raped them, because they would not have consented had they known the truth, and she knew that or she wouldn't have hidden it.
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