I think Cristal is NOT unusual. I don't know the feeling, though.
I saw Lady Gaga's concert on TV and she emphasized that it had nothing to do with gender, skin color, age and so on.
She can say that again!
Especially in the U.S, there are lots of kind of people.
I don't know in Japan.
Today many transgender people are on TV and we don't care about it, so perhaps we've already felt that it is normal.
