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A former member of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs has come out to say she's now a woman.

Kristin Beck, formerly Chris, served 20 years as a SEAL and fought on some of the most dangerous battlefields in the world, but after she left the service she realized she wasn't living the life she wanted.

"Chris really wanted to be a girl and felt that she was a girl and consolidated that identity very early on in childhood," said Anne Speckhard, co-author of Beck's biography "Warrior Princess," which was published over the weekend. Speckhard told ABC News Beck suppressed that secret for decades, however, through the trials of SEAL training and the harrowing missions that followed, growing a burly beard as she fought on the front lines of American special operations.

Brandon Webb, a former SEAL who served on a different SEAL team than Beck, said that Beck's reputation in the SEALs was a good one and said she was, by all appearances, the "consummate guy's guy."

But the book says that Chris "had considered living as the woman he felt himself to be for a very long time, but while he was serving as a SEAL he couldn't do it."

"For years Chris had turned off his sexuality like a light switch and lived as a warrior, consumed with the battle -- living basically asexual. For Chris the other SEALs were brothers and in the man's man warrior lifestyle, even if he had wanted to entertain sexual thoughts, there really was never any time to be thinking too much about sexuality," the book says.

After her retirement in 2011, however, "Now seemed the right time to go for it -- to make his body match his identity -- or at least start by dressing like a woman in his regular life."

Speckhard said Beck first announced her decision to friends online with the declaration "No more disguises" and the book describes her going out to gay bars in Florida as a woman.

Beck is currently on hormone therapy in preparation for sexual reassignment surgery and generally wears long hair, make-up and women's clothes, Speckhard said.

In the book's Preface, Beck said she wrote the book "to reach out to all of the younger generation and encourage you to live your life fully and to treat each other with compassion, be good to each other, especially in your own backyard (where it be high school or your community)."

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                        「靈魂中性說」vs「同性戀」

這是最近引起一陣熱議的新聞，就是一位海豹部隊的軍人 ( 類似台灣的海軍陸戰隊  ) 在退役後變性成為女性。由於軍人的陽剛形象和女性的柔弱形象反差太大，不但讓人嘖嘖稱奇，也再次引起民眾對於同性戀的正反兩方辯論。

話說這位軍人已經結婚，育有兩個男孩，外人看來家庭美滿，各方面看起來都符合我們華人社會口中的「五子登科」(  妻子/ 夫子、孩子、金子、車子、房子 ) ，人生100分，照理應該就照這個模式一路走下去，一直到老，不過，他卻在人生的一半做了一個相當不一樣的決定。只能說每個家庭都有不足為外人道的部分，而所謂的幸福何止是「表面的」五子登科，講求的是更是「內心的」滿足感和幸福感。

一般人聽到這樣的男變女，女變男，或是同性戀情況時，直覺的反應是：「這些人腦子有問題，需要進行治療」，再不然就是說：「這些人大概是基因染色體有缺陷，造成行為怪異」，又或者說：「這違反了陰陽調和的大自然法則」等等諸如此類的說法。

其實仔細的想想，這些行為不但沒有違反大自然法則，也沒有違背我們所信仰的「善良風俗」，甚至可以說男變女，女變男，或是同性戀在自然界是一種必然的存在，怎麼說呢 ?

在我們一般所謂「善良風俗」的信仰中，我們認為女兒是爸爸上輩子的情人，而兒子是媽媽下輩子的丈夫；或是，有些長輩過世時，子女們希望相約來世再做家人；又或者有些夫妻相約要做三世夫妻等等，這些情況的假設前提都是以「靈魂不滅」來貫穿。

所以在投胎轉世到下一世前，一般人都耳熟能詳知道一定要喝「夢婆湯」才能忘記前世的記憶準備投胎。那麼，如果有漏網之魚 ( 我們都知道品檢會有上下1%的誤差率 )，沒有喝到夢婆湯，會是一種怎麼樣的情況呢 ? 沒喝到的這個人就會帶著前世的記憶來到下一世，形成了角色扮演的認知混淆。也就是如果前世是個女生，帶著前世女生的記憶投胎到男生的身體，那麼她到底部應該算是女生還是男生呢 ? 又如果遇到了許下三世夫妻諾言的他/她，到底該認或不認呢 ? 認了就成了大家口中的同性戀，不認又違背自己的諾言。

因此有人提出了「靈魂中性說」這樣的一個說法，或者用白話文來說，就是「雌雄同體」。意思就是說我們的靈魂其實是雌雄同體，轉世到女生的身體內，便會存有女生的記憶，轉世到男生的身體內，便會存有男生的記憶。因此男生會有女生溫柔和纖細的特質，女生也可能具備有男生堅毅和勇敢的特質。

因此西方聖經上說的「夏娃來自於亞當的一根肋骨」，和東方的「孫悟空72變」其實就有異曲同工之處，將集於一身的雌雄同體的各式特質，透過「分身」的方式，將陰、陽、溫柔、纖細、堅毅、勇敢等等的特點給分化出來。

只能說自然界運行的法則就在那裡，或許我們只是用了一種偏聽、偏視的角度和信仰在看世界。當我們還一知半解時，我們說那叫「怪人+ 怪力亂神」，當我們可以理解時，我們稱它叫「普通常識」。

當我們對自然界運行有更深的認識時，就可以理解對方遇到的是怎樣的一種進退兩難的情況，也許我們會有更大的包容力，也會願意給予對方深深的祝福了。

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