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Alex with her mother, Rosa Taledo Vicente, and her father, Victor Martinez Jimenez. Mr. Martinez is a construction worker who speaks Zapotec but little Spanish. He and Alex have a loving relationship, and when asked about having a muxe son he replies: “It was God who sent him and why would I reject him? He helps his mother very much. Why would I get mad? God sent him for both of us. Why would I get mad?”
Muxe is their local word for transvestites.
Read the NY Times article here. When people talk about God and homosexuals, I wish they would think more this way rather than the hateful things they talk about. It's so much more basic than condemnation, guilt, sin... it's just about love and acceptance.