(November 24, 2009 at 11:16 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote:You appear to be constructing a strawman, i.e. setting up a couple of bad examples in order to show that another example (although completely unrelated) is wrong.(November 23, 2009 at 10:23 pm)Saerules Wrote: You think that transgenderism is a delusion.... why?
Well, if I walked up to you and gave you a hug with my two good arms and told you that I was really a one-armed person born with an extra arm...
If I walked around scratching at the middle of my head telling everyone I should actually have a third eye and was simply born without one...
Transgenderism has nothing to do with the body per se. It's more of an attitude of the mind than anything. A person born in a male body exhibits a female persona, to the point that they feel like a female trapped in a male body. It's been documented on many occasions.
It even has a scientific explanation. Quoting from Wikipedia:
Wikipedia Wrote:Their tests showed that the volume of the central subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc), a brain area that is essential for sexual behaviour, is larger in men than in women. A female-sized BSTc was found in male-to-female transsexuals. The size of the BSTc was not influenced by sex hormones in adulthood and was independent of sexual orientation. Their study was the first to show a female brain structure in genetically male transsexuals and supports the hypothesis that gender identity develops as a result of an interaction between the developing brain and sex hormones.
