Caitlyn Jenner did not "decide to become" a woman

[Humanist_Activist]

36. Yeah, I see the issue, I think it boils down to two things...

first, transgender people do NOT want to generally be considered to have a psychological issue or problem. So defensiveness kicks in, if you can point to a physical difference in the brain, then its not just psychological, but physiological, and hence more "real" and possibly acceptable to the larger culture to accept. Note, as of right now, the evidence leans in this direction anyways.

Intersex people are extremely defensive about children being assigned genders before they are old enough to consent. There is an impression that transgender advocates would advocate for this? Not sure why some intersex people think this, but I haven't read all position papers. There's also the question of territory, intersex people do not want transgender people to claim to be intersex because their intersex condition is superficially invisible. Compared to many intersex people whose condition is usually diagnosed at birth.

I think this illustrates some real fears, but all imposed by larger society which fails to deal with non-binary gender issues, gender identity, and brain variance/disorders in general.

To be honest this can, in a very real way, be rolled up into being related to the stigma against mental disorders in that people don't treat those very seriously either. Even though increasing evidence shows differences in the brains of, I'll call them baseline functional people and those with behavior and/or emotional variances. These differences are physical, they may be a cause or a symptom, hopefully, as the mysteries of the brain are shown the light of day, we can find cures for most of them.

To be honest, the evidence is leaning, rather strongly, towards transgender people possessing the brains of the gender they most strongly identify with. This is pretty much all that matters, its real, it happens, it could be genetics, epigenetics, hormones, whatever. The cause doesn't matter so much as the treatment, let them live their lives as they feel they should, let them correct their bodies to allow them to more completely live as the gender they identify with, period. Seems simple.