Choosing who you are

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If a person is born with a functional penis and testicles - then decides later in life that they are actually female - and surgically alters their body to appear that way - are they indeed female?

I sometimes wonder whether all the chemicals we use are messing with our hormones.  I can understand people being homosexual, but have a difficulty understanding trans people.

This is a very weird issue.

I have a hard time understanding too.  Probably because I have never had such feelings so I don't have the same information in my brain to draw from.  It certainly doesn't mean that I have an issue with someone being trans...I just don't understand it.  But then, I don't have to understand to accept.