How often is it the case that someone born as a man literally thinks he is a woman (or vice versa)? I think you are making it sound more like a defect than it actually is.
I think it is more often a situation where they mentally and emotionally feel like the opposite gender even if their physical sex does not reconcile. It's not that they are delusional.
All mammals are full of individual variations and this is just one of them. It's one of the main mechanisms for evolution. A small number of variations are beneficial, but most are benign and some are detrimental. Being gay, trans, etc... are examples of variations that I believe are pretty benign in the big picture. Maybe you could "fix" them through genetics, but as a biological mechanism, it's working as intended. It would be like "fixing" someone with heterochromia iridium, freckles or situs inversus. If the people are happy and healthy, why should it be an issue?
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