I Do Not Understand Gender Reassignment [I Am In Support of Transgender and Genderqueer People]

I don’t understand being straight. But I can respect those that are. Must be an awful feeling being in a body that doesn’t represent who you feel you are inside. Awful and confusing. I can’t even imagine.

This is completely false. Gender dysphoria is NOT something based on social programming. It's a lot more complex thing than that. I don't fully know what it's like, and I can't explain it fully... My only guess is that it's actually mental wiring. Their body's DNA decided to write itself as one gender, but the brain's wiring doesn't agree and goes in the other direction. Of course, I'm not a professional and I have plenty of trans friends, so I can only really take semi-educated guesses.

I can’t imagine how it feels to be in a body that doesn’t feel right to you. What a hard journey it must be to transition into who you know you are.

I have not personally known anyone, apart from folks online, who have gender dysmorphia, but as I understand it, it's more than just social programming, as you put it. It is literally a question of brain chemistry and structure.

In the development of a (dare I use this word?) normal human, the embryo is female by default. At a certain point in its development, something is triggered, and the embryo is bombarded with hormones which will determine its physical sex. That is when it becomes either a boy or a girl.

With true gender dysmorphia, something goes wrong at this stage in the development. The brain receives one hormone, and the body receives another. So you have a female brain in a male body, or vice versa. Thus, people with gender dysmorphia literally feel like they have the wrong body.

Gender reassignment surgery is definitely not perfected, and I wouldn't recommend it, but people turn to it because they cannot deal with the sensation of being in the wrong body.

I don't have any problem whatsoever with actual Transgendered People. The only problem that I have is when a biological male is competing in Women's Sports who is NOT having any type of Hormone Replacement Therapy being done.