Transexuals

[SteelCurtain]

          Gender identity disorder, a simple concept which covers a wide variety of behaviors. The little boy playing barbie dolls, or the little boy playing with his sisters make up. I heard about this story on the radio (http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/new...-daughter/). His daughter who is only four want's a penis. Your right, I have very rough and general understanding of it. A father seeing his son playing barbie dolls may be a alarm, or be a passing phase. I have a general understanding of gender dysphria and it is considered rare.

Jibbers Crabst, no. Crossing stupid gender stereotypes has nothing to do with Gender Dysphoria. A girl who hates dresses or a boy who hates sports and wants to play with dolls is not what being transgender is, at all. That is just society's stupid 'rules' that we try and push our kids into believing. You're not a real boy unless you love sports and learn to objectify women at a shockingly young age, or if you play with dolls you're a sissy.

No.

Gender dysphoria is the physical and mental feeling of being in the wrong body. Your brain's gender makeup doesn't match your body's sexual expression. It is a constant, unrelenting mental gulf that a person has, until science has caught up with explaining it better, had to just try and cross in some way. I cannot even imagine how unrelenting it must be. Probably similar to phantom limbs with amputees. There's supposed to be something there, and your brain thinks there's something there, but there just isn't, and you're glad for the 3 or 4 minutes a day when you aren't thinking of it because you're occupied with something else.

The problem lies in people creating these opinions about what to do, having clearly no understanding of the issue before forming those opinions. I don't understand why people do this. When these issues started to come to light, the first thing I googled was "what is it like to be trans" and learned about what it really is, from the mouths of people who experience it. Before anyone is allowed to make policy opinions, I think they should at the very least have the human decency learn what it's like (as much as it's possible) from the people who are affected by the policies they are considering.