RE: Transexuals
April 14, 2016 at 2:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2016 at 2:18 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(April 13, 2016 at 7:01 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: I don't know much about the issue, but I'll further clarify my thoughts. I think feeling like you are a different gender when you clearly aren't to begin with is definitely a mental disorder. Knowing that you are one gender, and wishing you would have been or wanting to become another one, however, isn't necessarily so. Which of these two categories fit most people who identify as transgender I don't know, but it makes no matter, for even those that fall in the former category only concern me so far as their own well-being(as do the latter, of course).
The problem comes with your definition of gender.
You are basing it on what you see. The body. There is a difference between your physical sex, as in the body and chromosomes, and gender which depends upon how your brain is wired up. You can't see what goes on inside someone's head. In fact you can't even see someone's chromosomes and you'd be surprised at how much variation there is here in people who you personally would see as a man or a woman. And even then, the extra chromosome that is different between male and female, most of it is not even related to gender either.
Your identity and thoughts come from your brain, not your body your genitalia, or your chromosomes.