It was a Houston municipal judge who removed his testicles , called himself a girl, and is held up as a role model for the nation.

The New York Times did a spotlight on one of the heroes of America. Was it a special forces soldier who fought in Afghanistan? No. Was it a border patrol agent apprehending a drug dealer about to cross the border and commit an act of hate? No.

It's Mrs. Doubtfire!

Phillip, now "Phyllis," Frye is a municipal court judge in Houston, recruited by Houston's lesbian mayor, Annise Parker.

At one point in the 1980s, Ms. Parker gave Ms. Frye a ride to a conference. During the drive, Ms. Frye confided that she sorely missed playing sports, and that no women's team would let her join. Ms. Parker, who coached a lesbian softball team, looked over at the strapping, 5-foot-10 woman beside her and thought, "I really need a power hitter." "I got back to her later and said, excuse the pun, 'I'm willing to go to bat for you,' " Ms. Parker said. Ms. Frye, who had watched admiringly as the transgender tennis player Renée Richards won the right to compete as a woman in the United States Open in 1977, became the first transgender woman in Houston's lesbian softball league. She and her wife, who were socially isolated, found themselves welcomed into a community.

Lesbians have their own softball teams? This is news to me. Why do they need their own teams? Is there some technique of underhand pitching that is specific to sexual orientation? Do they do extra innings in the locker rooms? Do they have a league where they play against teams of homosexual men, illegal aliens, and sharia law enthusiasts? Can you imagine the uproar if a group of women started a heterosexual ladies' softball team?

Note also that Mr. Frye has a wife. His first wife divorced him, and he found a gal who was comfortable with a man dressing as a gal. Does that make the wife a lesbian? I don't know.

Ms. Frye never opted for full gender-reassignment surgery. Ahead of her time, she firmly believed that surgery did not "complete" a gender change and should not be imposed on transgender people to justify a legal gender change on identification documents.

There you have it. His ideology states that even if you have the physical components of being a man, you can call yourself something else, and be that something else, whether it is a woman, fire hydrant, or perhaps a rooster in a Monet painting.

Meanwhile, Mr. Frye has been a strong advocate for letting men be peeping Toms in ladies' bathrooms.

"The public has a deep fear of trans people in bathrooms, and specifically of penises in girls' rooms," said Chase Strangio, a transgender lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBT & AIDS Project.

What an odd fear! I trust that people like Mr. Frye are working to desensitize women to that. By the way, why do so many people in the LGBT community have such odd names? "Chase Strangio" sounds like a man who kills people in the dead of night with a piano wire.

Anyway, the end result is that this mentally ill person is ruling on cases involving normal citizens of Houston. If a bearded lady sues for not getting a job as a Hooters waitress, what will Mr. Frye decide? If a he/she wants to adopt a child and inculcate the child in his madness, what will Mr. Frye decide?

There was a classic Star Trek episode called "Whom Gods Destroy," where an inmate named Garth of Izar took over the asylum. The typical insanity ensued: "Garth puts on a coronation ceremony, declaring himself "Master of the Universe"; the other inmates are delighted."

That sort of deluded, self-congratulatory attitude reminds me very much of heroic way Mr. Frye is portrayed in the Times' article.

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