badgenome said:
That's how I see it. If it weren't at all relevant to the story and Sagal had been scamming people for, say, rent money, then it would be a pretty dick move and should perhaps be a fireable offense to just casually drop that information. But given the nature of the story, I don't think it's good journalism to leave that kind of information out (even though Sagal hardly needed "outing" in the first place). |
The problem with your line of thought is that Sagal is emotionally unwell. This is evident from the limited amount of information in your original post. There are two types of men who go into sexual reassignment, those who are mentally and emotionally women (i.e. they identify as a woman) and then there are those who go into sex reassignment as a kink. The begin thinking this is what they want only to realize at some point it isn't. For most of these men, if they're going through the proceedure with a doctor, during hormone replacement. However, for some men, it can happen after everything is said and done. There have even been some who have made the transition from man to woman, then back again to a male.
The fraud wasn't the story. The bigger story was an individual so troubled that they would attempt to go to extremes in an effort to undergo sex reassignment. Had he stuck with the story and explored it deeper, learned the process of sex reassignment, got outside professional opinions regarding the person, then did a story with changed names, things might be different.
I don't think, in the end, this necessarily helps Sagal with his emotional problems. It'll likely only make it worse.
