(07-26-2017, 08:49 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(07-26-2017, 08:36 PM)wrong_box Wrote: ok what defines a man and what defines a woman?Pretty sure if you gots ya a natural winkie between your legs you are classified as a man...If ya gots ya a natural woo hoo between your legs you are classified as a woman...Its really easy to prove gender...maybe someone doesn't feel like a man, but if he has a natural winkie he is a man even if he doesnt feel like it...Gender is not about what you feel like, its what parts ya got naturally...

But what if the parts down there don't match up with the chromosome or the brain chemistry? There's a lot we don't yet know about how the human brain works, and it's possible that brain chemistry has as much to do with gender as the downstairs equipment does.

Like I said, I don't necessarily agree with the concept of transgender, but I won't discount it either. That's my sniff test on that one. If my brother walked up to me and said that the climate is not changing, I'd laugh in his face and point him to all the proof that it is--and the studies which suggest that we don't know exactly how much of that change is manmade vs. natural yet. If he walked up and said that the world simply popped into being as-is 6,000 years ago, I'd collapse on the floor crying with laughter. If he walked in and told me in all sincerity that he is a woman, I couldn't laugh that off and I couldn't find it in myself to dismiss him or tell him he was wrong. The person gets the benefit of the doubt.

yeah the only way that would happen is if someone tried to pick something different for you at birth. For instance, my parents had a friend who was a doctor dealing with kids from china. Basically these children would have birth defects in the genitalia and she would tell the parents that 'so and so is genetically a boy, but he doesn't have enough material down there for a penis, we should give him hormones and let him live as a girl'. Yeah if that situation happened I could see how you would be screwed up. But that is not even close to the majority of trans. Almost all of them started life out with all the equipment and no doctors interference.

If your sister decides she wants to be a man, and she didn't have the above happen, then its not a genetic or scientific reason. Epigenic maybe (BPH is indicated as something that can cause this), but not just 'born that way.'

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