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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
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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I have very few beefs with this post because it seems you are willing to entertain, if not already accept its a biological function. As for the end, why fix it if people are happy and healthy, well, it's clear that trans people and people with gender identity are anything but. Depression and suicide are astronomically higher in these groups and while I agree a lot of its due to society being society, if we accepted these groups fully (which we should) I suspect the depression and suicide issues would still be higher than other groups.