Post by ffreemasonrie on Dec 7, 2010 14:19:00 GMT 10
Figueira [Portugal] Resident Who Had Sex Change Divides Portuguese Freemasonry
www.asbeiras.pt/2010/12/figueirense-que-mudou-de-sexo-divide-a-maconaria-portuguesa
December 6, 2010
A legal or an ontological question? Emanuel Alves, 37 years old, gave way to Ema Sofia Alves, 37 years old. The sex change (ongoing process) of this Figueiran citizen did not mean only the change of gender: there are preconceptions and questions of a practical nature to overcome. Some of these obstacles have already been overcome. Others, however, present a high degree of difficulty.
Emanuel Alves was a masseuse for Naval [soccer (football) team] but stopped being one when he decided to change sex. However, Ema Sofia continues to pursue her profession, passing from being a male nurse to being a female nurse in the Figueira da Foz District Hospital. When she was a man, she still belonged to the Consistency Masonic Lodge, but left it about a year ago, just when she started the process of gender reassignment.
The transformation has agitated the Masons, according to "Saturday" magazine. However, the "Daily to the Edges" found that Ema would like to return to the brotherhood, but the statutes do not allow it. "I don't understand how a progressive organization like the Grand Orient of Lusitania is so conservative," says one of its members, who requested anonymity. "Gradual, not progressive," correct the historians Pedro Brandao and Antonio Fidalgo.
www.asbeiras.pt/2010/12/figueirense-que-mudou-de-sexo-divide-a-maconaria-portuguesa
December 6, 2010
A legal or an ontological question? Emanuel Alves, 37 years old, gave way to Ema Sofia Alves, 37 years old. The sex change (ongoing process) of this Figueiran citizen did not mean only the change of gender: there are preconceptions and questions of a practical nature to overcome. Some of these obstacles have already been overcome. Others, however, present a high degree of difficulty.
Emanuel Alves was a masseuse for Naval [soccer (football) team] but stopped being one when he decided to change sex. However, Ema Sofia continues to pursue her profession, passing from being a male nurse to being a female nurse in the Figueira da Foz District Hospital. When she was a man, she still belonged to the Consistency Masonic Lodge, but left it about a year ago, just when she started the process of gender reassignment.
The transformation has agitated the Masons, according to "Saturday" magazine. However, the "Daily to the Edges" found that Ema would like to return to the brotherhood, but the statutes do not allow it. "I don't understand how a progressive organization like the Grand Orient of Lusitania is so conservative," says one of its members, who requested anonymity. "Gradual, not progressive," correct the historians Pedro Brandao and Antonio Fidalgo.
