Will we get used to trans-gender people?

[Josiah]

Thanks for your thoughts, Josiah ..it will be interesting how science will interpret the tendency of some to try to change their genders.

I take issue with your use of the word "try". From all the anecdotal accounts I have heard trans-gender individuals describe the wrong gender sensation they experience starting in earliest childhood and certainly not a product of their volition. They want to be normal gender appropriate children but try as they may they can not keep from feeling they are the wrong gender. The same is true of homosexual individuals who spend most of the adolescence years trying desperately to be interested in the opposite sex. My gay son explained this experience to me and one tends not to forget conversations like that. So to once again summarize my point, there is no volition, no trying going on here. Instead it is an inborn urge that can not be thought away or prayed away.

 

[Misty]

I take issue with your use of the word "try". From all the anecdotal accounts I have heard trans-gender individuals describe the wrong gender sensation they experience starting in earliest childhood and certainly not a product of their volition. They want to be normal gender appropriate children but try as they may they can not keep from feeling they are the wrong gender. The same is true of homosexual individuals who spend most of the adolescence years trying desperately to be interested in the opposite sex. My gay son explained this experience to me and one tends not to forget conversations like that. So to once again summarize my point, there is no volition, no trying going on here. Instead it is an inborn urge that can not be thought away or prayed away.

Actually Josiah, when I mentioned the word "try", I meant the operations the transgender individuals go through to look like who they feel like inside. Sorry my post wasn't clearer.

 

[tnthomas]

No matter how much the transgendered person changes his/her outward appearance, the DNA stays the same, so far.

I made this same point in the Caitlyn Jenner thread, a few weeks ago.

But to address the thread topic-

Will we get used to trans-gender people?

...I'd have to say yes, in general as a society. But there will always be individuals who will cling to their ignorance and hatred, just as they do still, here in the 15th year of the 21st century with racial and religious bias.