I strongly disagree with Rick Santorum on this issue. If a person is born a male, you can mutilate his body and give him hormone shots which will cause physical changes, but he is still a male and will remain a male until the day he dies. There is no changing that.
If you are born with all the male equipment, then you are a male. If you have female equipment, then you are a female. Anybody who can’t live with that fact is a spoiled brat. A man is born a man and should live like that all his life. To not do so is a severe character flaw.
This statement confirmed everything I thought about Rick Santorum in 2012.