Are transgender people the gender they say they are?

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Yes, absolutely, nobody would choose that life without serious suffering and pain.  It's not something that can be chosen - your gender is in your brain the day you are already born, it is created that way in the womb.

Whatever parts you have - that's not really your gender... that's your anatomy or what happened to your body - there is a Higher Power and the higher power makes you on the inside, and that's a religious perspective on this.

Google "Two-spirits" from Native societies. 

Transgender should be spiritually revered - it's been around since the beginning of time!

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your gender is in your brain the day you are born

this seems very incorrect lol

Laugh all you want.  It's clear you mock, you judge, you make fun - but you will never know what its like to be trans - and may you be so grateful that you do not.  It's not something that should be laughed off as if it's a side show freak... these are real kids going through this.  It's not a game or something to joke about.  The suicide rate for trans is through the roof.

[Thank you for being a friend...]

your gender is in your brain the day you are born

this seems very incorrect lol

Laugh all you want.  It's clear you mock, you judge, you make fun - but you will never know what its like to be trans - and may you be so grateful that you do not.  It's not something that should be laughed off as if it's a side show freak... these are real kids going through this.  It's not a game or something to joke about.  The suicide rate for trans is through the roof.

Sure, but you're saying people are transgender from birth?  I don't buy that.  No one serious really argues that gender is an innate characteristic like sex or race.  How someone relates and understands their gender is at least socially influenced, if not entirely dictated (i.e., concepts of "manhood" and "womanhood" shifting across different cultures.)

Are you transgender?  Then how are such an expert?

[Thank you for being a friend...]

your gender is in your brain the day you are born

this seems very incorrect lol

Laugh all you want.  It's clear you mock, you judge, you make fun - but you will never know what its like to be trans - and may you be so grateful that you do not.  It's not something that should be laughed off as if it's a side show freak... these are real kids going through this.  It's not a game or something to joke about.  The suicide rate for trans is through the roof.

Peak Atlas: A transgender user calls someone transphobic for not believing in "brain sex," while ignoring the other transgender user taking same opposing position in a directly previous comment.

Peak Atlas: Intellectuals that like to talk about issues that they have no personal life experience in (such as trans, such as being black, such as having an abortion, etc.)  I think it's high time that the people on this forum stick to what they know... instead of claiming to know everything about livelihoods they know NOTHING about.

[Thank you for being a friend...]

your gender is in your brain the day you are born

this seems very incorrect lol

Laugh all you want.  It's clear you mock, you judge, you make fun - but you will never know what its like to be trans - and may you be so grateful that you do not.  It's not something that should be laughed off as if it's a side show freak... these are real kids going through this.  It's not a game or something to joke about.  The suicide rate for trans is through the roof.

Peak Atlas: A transgender user calls someone transphobic for not believing in "brain sex," while ignoring the other transgender user taking same opposing position in a directly previous comment.

Peak Atlas: Intellectuals that like to talk about issues that they have no personal life experience in (such as trans, such as being black, such as having an abortion, etc.)  I think it's high time that the people on this forum stick to what they know... instead of claiming to know everything about livelihoods they know NOTHING about.

But the other person in this thread who knows what it's like to be transgender disagrees with you.

I hope tomorrow, sir, you wake up in the body of the opposite sex, and then you tell people that and see the kinds of looks they give you.  And finally you will realize what's truly like to have your own miserable life be used against you on a petty, stupid political forum.

[Thank you for being a friend...]

your gender is in your brain the day you are born

this seems very incorrect lol

Laugh all you want.  It's clear you mock, you judge, you make fun - but you will never know what its like to be trans - and may you be so grateful that you do not.  It's not something that should be laughed off as if it's a side show freak... these are real kids going through this.  It's not a game or something to joke about.  The suicide rate for trans is through the roof.

Peak Atlas: A transgender user calls someone transphobic for not believing in "brain sex," while ignoring the other transgender user taking same opposing position in a directly previous comment.

Peak Atlas: Intellectuals that like to talk about issues that they have no personal life experience in (such as trans, such as being black, such as having an abortion, etc.)  I think it's high time that the people on this forum stick to what they know... instead of claiming to know everything about livelihoods they know NOTHING about.

But the other person in this thread who knows what it's like to be transgender disagrees with you.

I hope tomorrow, sir, you wake up in the body of the opposite sex

hot

Nobody said anything about your new body being attractive lol.  It could be quite hideous - so not that hot.