"Transgender are hard wired to the opposite sex" Uh no you're getting it mixed up. Trans people feel like their in the wrong body and want to become the opposite sex. They is a middle section tho where some people are in transition from 1 gender to another. So they are not fully a man but not fully a woman. Hence why places provide other. It's just to suit their preference and make people feel more comfortable. Sexual preference has nothing to do with it they can be gay lesbian straight bisexual etc.
@TheDean If a man wears a dress he's still a man. Clothing doesn't change biological sex or gender. Transgenderism isn't "I like everything the opposite biological sex likes so I must be one of them." It's your behaviour differing to that which society deems appropriate for someone of your biological sex. Not everything is neurological. Humor, love and compassion are though. Nobody knows the full extent to which neurology determines our behaviour, but in any behavioural science, the question of Nature versus Nurture is controvesial, contested, undecided and a major driving force for research. How much does society, in tandem with our social, conforming brain, influence our behaviour? The left tends to exaggerate the social influence and make behaviour seem superfluous, while ignoring the more concrete and irremovable neurological, chemical and biological factors which are proven to exist. Some say that Genders are defined by society. Others say that they're functional and a result of evolution. If we lived in a utopia with no concept of gender, and we just had the two biological sexes and treated them exactly the same, some would argue that these people would be brainless as genders exist in the individual's mind and the minds of the others within one's society. Transgender people would not exist without gender. But of course, gender is real. The brains of Transgender people may be exposed to higher levels of Eostrogen or Testosterone In utero than some people of the opposite biological sex. This might cause deep and innate, physical and mental features that result from exposure to that other hormone. Features as deep and innate as "arms." """"In fact, people with extremely strong gender dysphoria can experience the phantom limb sensation in their genitals and chest, similar to people who have lost an arm or leg."""" The thing about phantom limbs is that it only ever occurs with people who once had that limb and lost it. If you have phantom genitals that you've never had, it's probably because you identify with other people who have them . This is usually because you want to be the same as them. You might want to be the same as them because you empathize with them a lot and you don't know how to empathize with the feeling of having certain other BITS which can feel. Thus you might, in an effort to empathize, just imagine having them. Or you want to be one of them and something that makes them different to you are these BITS, and to be 'like' them you think you need to change that physical feature of yours. What comes first? Wanting to have female parts or wanting to be female? I admit. I've danced in front of the mirror and pretended I had boobies. Swinging my hips and squishing the imaginary things together. Wow. Such smishy. Air. In my mind they were real because I have an imagination. Now if I was serious and wanted to have them badly enough, I could imagine someone over a prolonged period of time, beginning to imagine having them often and noticing the absence of them and having that absence bother them. There's no such thing as a male or a female brain. But mental masulinity and femininity MAY exist, and if they do, they exist on a continuum, not a switchboard. Perhaps being born with a higher-pitched voice, smaller frame, and so on, and being dissed by your society for not being masculine enough, might make someone want to find a people to identify with. And if it can't be 0, it must be 1. Perhaps this is the necessitator of transgenderism. Not your mental masculinity or feminimity, but the need to put yours into a 0 or a 1 which have defined parameters. Trying to do this isn't so much "the wiring of the brain" but rather base human impulses to find belonging and quality of life. Perhaps the rigidity of the boxes of masculinity and femininity commonly disseminated within society are the reason for the ostracisation? Not necessarily by the family or society, but by the individual who is confused and thinks it necessary to change.
I fully respect and have nothing against anybody in the LGBT community (unless I just don't like them personally of course) and I also respect that this movement is meant to bring attention to those who may have turned a blind the travesties that many of them have had to endure. However I also feel that putting SO much attention on all this labelling is extremely segregating to the much larger community of segregating. It seems to me that by focusing ones attention on the trials and tribulations endured by many in the LGBT community as opposed to trying to identify what it is to call each individual type of person would raise the same awareness without causing nearly as much segregation and exclusion of people who also just want to fit in but don't meet the LGBT criteria. There will always be those that hate whether it is on gender or race or misogynistic ideals. Even on some other nonsensical things that most wouldn't even dream could warrant hate. This is just how people are. It is a law of averages, because amongst the hate there are also those who love and accept and everything in between. I believe the community that should exist would consist of those who appreciate the value of love and acceptance and it would just accept each other for who they are without any worry of such trivial details like how to label someone because of their differences.
Hey as an American I am offended by that. When your country needs saving don't ask the USA for help kthx
er, you don't need funds? im a lesbian and ive dated a trans woman who could have gotten me pregnant if we so chose. a close male friend of mine is married to a guy and they have a kid who was born via a surrogate, with no cost to them. there are many different ways for gay people to reproduce. and im not even american?????
it's a tricky word on context. the phrase they used it in is generally inoffensive, but to call LGBT people queer as a blanket IS offensive