EDIT: Oh wow I didn't realize how much this thread had grown... maybe I'd better step back here. I'll leave the below, but FYI I haven't read most of this discussion which might have helped.
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
You lot obviously view sexuality and gender as being intrinsically tied together, when they exist apart from each other. Changing the public discourse regarding transgendered/gender-fluid individuals is long-overdue.
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You must understand that this is a highly controversial statement about human biology and psychology that you're not at all qualified to make. I don't even know that you're wrong, but you seem to be espousing this dogmatic stuff on transgender issues from a pulpit as if this is all settled. It isn't.
I am mostly agnostic on this topic, but I do find Yooh's point persuasive. Kids, at a young age, are not intellectually formed enough to be able to even comprehend these concepts. I'm not transgendered, so I can't speak from any personal experience, but I suspect that there's a journey of self-discovery that occurs as one develops mentally and finds out who one is. This seems at least somewhat analogous to sexual orientation. It makes perfect sense to me that that journey should happen as it happens, and that the pace of it will differ massively from person to person.