How do you define gender?

Just ignore the studies that have found that the brains of transgendered people are usually similar to the brains commonly found in the sex they want to be.ghoklebutter

Interesting, I always looked at intersexed individuals and their atypical chromosome structure as a means of trying to understand the mind of transgendered people-- although I've never looked into it to see if that was an accurate analogy. As of course it may not be entirely physiological and may have some (or many) environmental influences. All I know is that this issue isn't as simple as many people (morons) like to think of it as.

[QUOTE="sonicare"][QUOTE="edo-tensei"] It's a complete hypocrisy. Transgender people also have something chemicaly wrong in their heads to make them want to think of becming the opposite gender. They are NOT the opposite gender reguardless of chemical inbalance in the brain. I'm not defending any murder, that's your assuption. I was simply showcasing the "perspective" when you look at things. Your perspective tells you to distinguish between the two. My perspective makes me believe that they are indeed ignoring the reality of things. They will never be the opposite sex, and because of that, even after surgery they'll keep complaining and feeling miscerable about their lives. They can't coupe with reality, if they want to live in an illusion then let them. However, don't tell me I'm doing something wrong by acknowledging that fact.edo-tensei

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The bigger issue is how you treat this issue. Is it a disorder? For body dysmorphic disorders, usually counseling is advised as opposed to repetitive plastic surgeries. Should transgendered people be counseled or should they be enabled to switch genders? I dont advocate the callous "just deal with what cards you were dealt" philosophy, but I'm not sure what the best solution for this issue is. There are many types of dysmorphic disorders where people are unhappy about some aspect of their body. Most of them are best treated by not enabling them. For instance, you dont perform gastric bypass surgery on an anorexic. But in the case of transgender issues, I dont know what the solution is.

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[QUOTE="ghoklebutter"] Just ignore the studies that have found that the brains of transgendered people are usually similar to the brains commonly found in the sex they want to be.Jazz_Fan

Interesting, I always looked at intersexed individuals and their atypical chromosome structure as a means of trying to understand the mind of transgendered people-- although I've never looked into it to see if that was an accurate analogy. As of course it may not be entirely physiological and may have some (or many) environmental influences. All I know is that this issue isn't as simple as many people (morons) like to think of it as.

its basically the fictional story about the person who continually thruout the story had his natural human body parts gradually replaced with cybernetic body parts, and where in the story do we stop reading about the person, and begin reading about the machine.

how much woman does a man have to be in order for that man to be a woman and vice versa

sadly this isnt really decided by biology, as usually advertised to us sheeple (because science is always a good card to pull for successful lobbyism), but instead this is all defined by whatever opinion sounds more convincing