re: Idaho family buries transgender woman as a man

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Perhaps the family, who is likely paying for the service, simply remembers their son as a boy and want to reflect on the good times they had together.

Unless the deceased wanted to be buried a certain way, it's really not anyone's place to judge.

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I think it's safe to say that the deceased wouldn't have wanted to be buried with her gender switched to a male anymore than you would want to have your gender switched to a female when you die. What if, upon your death, your mom decided she really wanted to have a girl so she decides to stick a wig on you in the casket?

They can reflect on the good times with their son without doing what they did.

I think it's an insult to this person's memory. A funeral is supposed to be to mourn or celebrate someone's life. When you do something like this, you're not mourning or celebrating that person's life, you're just making that person into what you wanted them to be instead.

I'm not really spiritual or religious, but I do feel one thing.... you don't frick with the dead.