homophobia

[Brad De Long]

>berlin at socrates.berkeley.edu wrote:
>
>>In the field I work/study in, there is this very prominent professor at
>>Stanford who just had a sex change this year and went from being Jonathan
>>Roughgarden to Joan Roughgarden. In her picture, it looks pretty
>>convincing too. She's published so much and is the leader in her field,
>>and I heard she may even be a dean?? Anyway... she's probably the most
>>high level person I've ever heard of who has done this.
>
>In economics, there was the celebrated case of Donald McCloskey, who became
>Deirdre. I defer to the economists on the list to evaluate his/her level in
>the profession.
>
>Doug

Well, we did elect her (and she now is for this year) the President of the
Economic History Association...

Brad DeLong