Everybody is different.
One of my friends is trans, I knew her for a year or so before another friend mentioned it.
I had thought she was kind of rough looking for a female.
She is a Trump voter and very conservative.
Seems normal otherwise, a hard worker and into several hobbies.
I still refer to her as "she", "her" etc., because, so what? Whatever makes her happy is fine with me.
There are interesting books about Edgar Cayce that might, as an aside, have an answer to why folks are what they are.
Suppose your soul had been incarnated many times as one sex, it doesn't matter which. Then suppose in this lifetime you are incarnated as the other sex. You won't know why, but you might look down and say, "what the hell is this"?
Of course you are going to "identify" as something other than what your birth certificate says.
Even more confusing, suppose you were incarnated in many lifetimes back and forth, one sex, then the other? That's when the "something else" might kick in, adding letters to the sex list.
IMHO, the few people who might suffer from this would be the "real" alphabet people.
Then there are the ones talked into it by parents, "teachers", doctors, etc., and the ones just going along with another stupid fad.
The latter is why no one should be getting drugged or operated on until at least age 18 to have time to figure out what might be reality for them.
Suppose you were a whack job and believed in reincarnation.
The only possible justification that I can think of is someone born hermaphrodite (intersex). I guess the xx/xy status is confusing and I certainly don’t understand the genetic situation.
>> Suppose your soul had been incarnated many times as one sex, it doesn’t matter which. Then suppose in this lifetime you are incarnated as the other sex. You won’t know why, but you might look down and say, “what the hell is this”? <<
You nailed it, but not the way you meant to. This is all about a RELIGION, not medicine. It’s a false religion, contrary and irreconcilable to Christianity, being forced onto the public. When it comes to gender, you are what your genes say you are.
I’m glad you didn’t use one false argument: this whole hysteria, (and that’s what it is despite the problematic etymology of the word) has zero to do with the very rare but existing phenomenon of genetic intersexuality, none of which (XO, XXY, XYY, etc.) wcause transexualism. (Androgen insensitivity does, but not only is it astonishingly rare, but creates hyper-feminine people; no-one would ever give them problems for using the women’s room.)
>> Of course you are going to “identify” as something other than what your birth certificate says. <<
If you remembered your previous life so thoroughly and all your patterns were so thoroughly entrenched, yes. But that’s literally impossible. Anyone who thinks they remember a past life is delusional.
>> Even more confusing, suppose you were incarnated in many lifetimes back and forth, one sex, then the other? That’s when the “something else” might kick in, adding letters to the sex list. <<
Which letters? Wouldn’t such a person be able to live AS EITHER? Most non-binaries I’ve ever heard of can live as NEITHER. We’re talking about a guy who supposedly through himself in front of a train (a spectacularly hateful way to end your life, by the way, deliberately scarring people for the sake of being dramatic) PRESUMED by the “journalist” because he couldn’t deal with people calling him, “sir.”