Technology always presents new challenges that reach into the world and create facts. For example, the fact of organ transplantation. Or the fact of sperm donation. Now we have people with transplanted organs and children who don't know their fathers as sperm donors, for example.

We will have people who have had their sex changed surgically and hormonally and they will not all - by guarantee - be happy and content with that for the rest of their lives. Just as new once was the finding of trauma (physical and mental). No matter what you take, when you reach adulthood you have no choice but to come to terms with what you have decided for yourself or what others have decided for you.

In relation to my text, I wanted to express that it doesn't necessarily take a surgical or biochemical change to recognise that people have a need for identity change and that you want to feel like a woman and like a man, like a hybrid or whatever fantastic being, without immediately resorting to very drastic means. Carnival, for example, I have always seen as a suitable opportunity to slip into other roles that one often already imagined inwardly.

This time of year is called the "fooling season" in our country. Where you can take it to the extreme and try things out without being socially ostracised because everyone is doing it. It's truly a colourful time. The Love Parade was another such affair. Instead of abolishing such festivals, badmouthing them or underestimating them culturally, we are in the process of abandoning this kind of tradition and individuals don't know exactly where they go with their needs of this kind. That's why I find places like Las Vegas so significant, because the change game is socially acceptable there.
The rest would be the exception that proves the rule.

From my point of view, LGBTQ is not a homogene group. So I find it wrong to use this term because it's unspecific.