Quote:Open-minded individuals sometimes refer to such radical thinking as a difference of opinion.


What scientific evidence do you have to support your position that transgender people are "born" that way?

Well.. I know several including one that is in kindergarten, the child of a friend from high school. The kid was born male, but started showing signs around two that being born with boy parts does not mean that the child self identified as a boy.


I will pause here to note this has NOTHING to do with any sort of sexual attraction or preference as no kid that young should have any self awareness of their sexuality in any way which is not a reflection of their maternal and paternal family connection. For example. Mommy is a girl. Daddy is a boy. They are my parents because they got together and made me. I would hope this is benign enough for everyone.


So around two years of age, this kid starts saying things like.. I want my hair long like mommy. I don't want a wife when I get old, I want a husband.


This child also felt very uncomfortable being forced to wear boy's clothes. This was not a choice. This was certainly not what my friend wished for her child. She eventually started to take the child to a psychologist who asked a series of questions and quickly deduced what we knew, her child was a girl in a boy's body. She lives her life like just about any other young girl and is oblivious to much of the struggle her family has shielded her from because of it. I consider this child fortunate to have been born into a loving and accepting family (I linked to a local incident above which was far from this image of family). Her mom simply decided to love her child as she was born. And her family has been the target of incidents of chargeable discrimination because of it.


You can research the science of what transgender means or you can take that giant leap and actually talk to one. You'll find some incredible similarities if you are brave enough to talk to two or three (and live to tell the tale).


I hear a lot of unoriginal jokes mocking the concept of a sexual identity. I would like to point out that trans people are not just deciding one day to be trans and, maybe in a few years they may decide to not be. To keep floating that type of ignorant notion is evidence there is a severe lack of education on this subject. There are dozens of scientific studies which almost all draw the same conclusions about the how and the why. You don't have to take my word for it.


I would also add.. why would someone choose that life if they actually had a choice? If you could answer that, you'd be the first.

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