Transgendered children

[Pyrrho]

To the OP:

I find the whole thing very strange.  I don't want to sound Cartesian, but I think of myself as a thinking thing, and I think of my gender as whatever my body is.  So I cannot relate at all to feeling like one is the "wrong" gender.  And likewise, I cannot relate to feeling like one is the "right" gender.  I feel like a thinking thing, not like a particular gender.  Not, that is, from introspection.  When I look in the mirror, there is no doubt of what I am, but that does not at all explain why someone would feel like they should have a different body.

It reminds me of people who feel like they should be paraplegics or other things of a like nature.  All of that is quite alien to me; I just feel like a thinking thing, and what my body is, is whatever it is.  I don't feel like my body should be anything in particular.

So when I read Descartes, I know what he means, even though I don't agree with him on much.

Also, from speaking with others about this, I know I am not alone in how I feel about this from introspection.