The trouble is, as I’ve said, that every person presenting with the symptoms of what we call “transsexuality” has shown the same pattern.
There are psychological conditions that appear superficially similar, but the diagnostic criteria are completely different. They’re easily distinguished. Basically, the psychotics are, well, psychotic, while the transsexuals are obviously sane in all other ways.
Of children who exhibit cross-gendered behaviour, only 1 in 3 are transsexual. The rest grow up to be gay though, indicating a biological cause for this minority of gay people. This is intractable, no amount of beatings, electroshocks, or other “aversion therapies” changes this.
As for the person who murdered their wife, then decided to “become a woman”, I’m maybe a little cruel. I say let him. Castrate him, and give him female hormones. Take MRI scans over years and you’ll be able to see the male neurology progressively degenerate under those conditions. You’ll see the brain shrink. Put him on 24 hour suicide watch though, the discomfort is reportedly extreme.
50% of transgendered children self-harm before age 20. It’s probable that the suicide rate for transgendered people who don’t at least get endocrinal correction is over 50%. To deliberately make someone transsexual would be cruel and unusual punishment. But fitting if they ask for it.
You sound like one of the few informed persons on this very controversial subject. I don’t pretend to understand how this condition might present itself, nor do I pretend to understand how such a person might feel. It’s a wierd thing. Thank G_d that I was born with a penis and I’m OK with that.