Quote:
Originally Posted by Columbine
The disorder EXISTS. It's as well documented and as clearly classified as any other disorder and plenty of eminent doctors and psychologists agree. However you are quite right, now surgery is relatively easily available some people do pick it up as a way to fix their lives, but conversely others realize that's not the case, or in fact are genuinely happy with their lives other than the over-whelming revulsion to their own bodies. You only have to look at these individuals at times when surgery was not an option to see the level their own mental-biological miss-match distresses them. There were cases of desperate self-castration or men consuming vast amounts of face cream with estrogen in it in order to feminize their bodies.
|
Many things are well documented. It doesn't mean they're real. Being able to undergo a psychological assesment proves nothing but your brain condition.
If a male undergos a test and answers in a female way every time, it does not mean the disorder is real, it means the male is unusual.
I've yet to see any actual physical evidence that there is any real part of this disorder. I mean, to me it seems people are talking about souls. Trying to say they have a male body, but a female soul. I don't believe in souls, so I don't believe that. The personality is a physical thing.
Someone needs to list the PHYSICAL differences in the male and female brain, and then compare the results with the genderly challenged. This is the only way to prove it, and I doubt it's been done.
As for "already proven" the disorder exists; I'm guessing some scientists just say it's real for the purpose of social equality. It happens many times. They also refuse to release test results on the capabilities of different races of humans, because a couple of races literally are superior than the rest, but they believe it serves no point and would only fuel racism, so it is kept in the dark.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Columbine
Possibly this whole "transgender" is "gay" point comes from Thailand where the laws are much more lax on transgenderism than for homosexuality, and some do choose to change sex rather than live a life in opposition of the law.
|
I don't understand this. There are gays and ladyboys everywhere in Thailand. This is probably the most welcoming country for the both of these groups in the world.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Columbine
All women have contact with testosterone. It's produced in the female body just as naturally as in the male, just in smaller amounts. Excess testosterone produced by the mother during pregnancy can have a masculinizing affect on a fetus. Interestingly, fetal sex dimorphism (the difference between M and F) is a two-fold process; there's the development of the gonads (ovaries or testes) first, and sometime later, some differences in neural structures which i'll call Type A and Type B. It's been shown in some cases that perhaps fluctuation of hormones during the pregnancy can leave an individual with say, male sex organs but a few key Type A structures, which they aren't ordinarily co-ordinated with. This obviously, is completely outwardly hidden, but could have some kind of affect. The links with this and transgenderism hasn't really been fully explored yet, but it does seem to be connected.
Gender identity kicks in about 3 or 4 years of age, but doesn't seem to become set until about 6/7 years old, much younger than sexual identity which comes with puberty, so that might explain the reason why many transexuals insist they've felt 'wrong' since early childhood.
|
This does not sound credible. You should list a reference.