Covergirl

[artyboy]

Ok, first of all, and feel free to bitch at me if you will, but biological gender is in fact DNA-determined. There are no buts about it.

That has nothing to do with gender identity, though, as far as I can understand it. I'm not inside a transgender person's head, so I may oversimplify this, but one can be a biological male and psychologically identify oneself as the opposite gender and then want to look the part.

And then there's a third concept regarding male and female behavior which has some basic set component, also genetically determined and related mainly to hormonal regulation in one and the other (i.e. testosterone levels make the average male more aggressive than the average female), but by far this concept is socially constructed. "Man should be like this, women should act like that" etc.

In any case, my motto is TO EACH THEIR OWN.

Like the OP, I can't hope to understand what goes on a transgender person's mind but as far as I'm concerned they are as free to do whatever the hell makes them happy as anyone else.

If anything, one can at least agree in the positive impact such an event can have given that transgenders are a minority that have it even worse than us gays.

I also agree with the OP in that people are naturally cruel to one another, especially towards what is "different" or "outside the norm" but what makes religion so dangerous is that it provides a moral high ground in which these people can justify their cruelty.

The response I see in those comments are not unexpected. I find them, like anything else comming from religious nutjob-ery, making a storm out of a water glass. Nonsensic, fatalistic, ridiculous and ultimately brainless.

Each to their own