re: #342 Justanotherhuman

Usually I’m with you on stuff, but here I am not. I know two transgender people personally, and I know it’s not a kind of “phase” or self-deception or fashion statement. It’s that deep down inside they don’t feel as if they belong in the body/gender that they have. And they have had this feeling since they were little. Biologically speaking, maleness or femaleness is not discrete; there’s a range of values, as it were. You might be born with the sex organs of one sex, but still have the hormones or innate psychological makeup of the other.

Since I don’t have this feeling, I can’t describe how it feels, but I can kind of understand how someone would feel it necessary for their own sanity or happiness or whatever to switch their gender. Both my transgender friends were women who will be (or already are) men now. They identify themselves as men, and since I’m not going to do the Crocodile Dundee thing and grab their crotch, I’ll take them at their word.

As for Caitlyn Jenner, she can be whatever she wants. No skin off my nose.