Transexuals

[Thumpalumpacus]

Because they're fully capable of functioning within society, as long as they're allowed to modify their body/style to fit how they see themselves... and they won't have more destructive issues later. If you don't allow them to express themselves properly, it will only make things worse. Higher suicide rates, for instance. Being gay or transgender doesn't make people more suicidal. How society treats them does.

The issue seems much more complicated that what either you or Drich have said. Mental health problems are often a constellation of issues and cannot be attributed to a single specific illness or cause. The problems associated with gender-dysphoria cannot be fully attributed to social attitudes. Most often the mentally ill are better served by accepting themselves as they are. That seems to me to be a very important difference between being gay and being transgendered. Positive self-acceptance for a gay person does not require a regime of hormonal treatments and/or invasive surgical procedures. Absent a serious physical illness, trying to change your existing biology to conform to how you think it "should be" is the exact opposite of self-acceptance.

Do you hold the same views with regard to, say, dieting? How about liposuction?

Implicit in your point here is that physiology is more important than mindset. Can you justify that in a rational manner without appeal to emotion?

The body is not the self. To argue otherwise is to adopt a materialistic mindset that you would abjure in almost any other case.

And just so it doesn't get forgotten, you are here advocating that "most often" mentally-ill people should just "deal with it". Would you then argue against treating bipolar disorder with lithium?

There are a few problems in your thinking here that do not comport with the image you wish to project. You might want to explain them?