There's over a million non-binary adults in the US.????????????What's is cisgender person? What is a trigender???????

Lewkat said:
The gender issues are not all that difficult to understand. Those with the chromosome mixes which make a gender difficult to tag are few and far between in society. Thinking a gender does not change the one a person is born with regardless of what the political agenda is for the day. These identity of which gender am I issues are ridiculous. So be it.
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Exactly. I know you have a healthcare background too and there's just no way to acknowledge that a person 'IS' the wished for sex when it comes to the medical field. What a person wants emotionally is not going to magically change physiology. I respect a person's right to self-identify and choose partners based on that, but it is! self-identification, not biological reality, except for the extremely rare cases you mentioned.
 

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Gender identity is not the same thing as sexual preference. People who say they are "trapped" in the wrong body are not the same as people who are gay. Example: a gay man is still a man. He identifies as male and doesn't mind being called "he."

It's the pronoun part of the trans-gender movement that bothers me more than anything. Somehow, I can't bring myself to call a single person "they." That just makes no sense.

Well, that's not the only part of it that bothers me, but it doesn't help. I also can't shake the feeling that it's a denial of reality, and that every cell in our body is binary (either male or female, not somewhere on a continuum.) The concept that some people have, that they are neither male nor female, but some neutral, non-gender entity is just a little too weird for me. Maybe I'm just too old?
 
We need new pronouns. I despise the "he/she" nonsense. We need a pronoun for a person of any sex. I don't think we have the faintest idea about gender identity, nor sexual preference, nor the brain itself. Apparently, there have been references through out history hinting at the slew of gender, and sexual issues. I just have a hard time keeping up with the revelations. I have to agree with Sunny, I have a hard time wrapping my mind about some of it.
 

I have no problem with adults that take steps to deal with gender reassignment, gender identity, etc...

My issue is mainly with well meaning adults slapping labels on young children. I’m not saying that this topic should be ignored but I believe that many young people need time to experiment and come to terms with who they are.

Sometimes I think it’s enough to just listen and provide a safe non-judgmental place for them to grow-up and mature.
 
Sunny said:
Gender identity is not the same thing as sexual preference. People who say they are "trapped" in the wrong body are not the same as people who are gay. Example: a gay man is still a man. He identifies as male and doesn't mind being called "he."

It's the pronoun part of the trans-gender movement that bothers me more than anything. Somehow, I can't bring myself to call a single person "they." That just makes no sense.

Well, that's not the only part of it that bothers me, but it doesn't help. I also can't shake the feeling that it's a denial of reality, and that every cell in our body is binary (either male or female, not somewhere on a continuum.) The concept that some people have, that they are neither male nor female, but some neutral, non-gender entity is just a little too weird for me. Maybe I'm just too old?
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That's true, but the mind is a huge part of human existence. What a person thinks does count for their experience of reality.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Non-binary people may identify as having two or more genders (being bigender or trigender);[5][6] having no gender (agender, nongendered, genderless, genderfree); moving between genders or having a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid);[7] being third gender or other-gendered (a category that includes those who do not place a name to their gender).[8]

Gender identity is separate from sexual or romantic orientation,[9] and non-binary people have a variety of sexual orientations, just as cisgender people do.[10]
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I listened to an interesting lecture once about an experiment of exposing a pregnant hamster to a pesticide that has hormone affecting properties during the time of the pregnancy when the brains of the babies were being sexually set from normal gestational development. One of the babies was born a boy, but he never developed normal male hamster behavior toward other girl and boy hamsters, and would devote as much time to nest building as the normal female hamsters.
 
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