RE: Transexuals
May 18, 2016 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2016 at 4:16 pm by Faith No More.)
Your misunderstanding, Chad, comes in believing that gender identity is a subjective belief. We now know that not only do a person's genitals determine their sex, so does the structure of their brains. We know that in the development of a fetus, the sex of the brain and the sex of the genitals are determined at different times, and sometimes the two do not line up. So, a transgender person is simply someone with the brain of one sex, but the genitals of another. It's not as if they just choose to identify as the sex opposite of their genitals. It's that their brains are literally telling them that their sex is different than their genitals, and they choose to identify with what their brain tells them as opposed to what's physically between their legs.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell