I’m supportive of what you’re saying. Yes people are born with all kinds of chemical and physical differences. They deserve acceptance and understanding.
As you said there are lots of “pretenders” Our daughter told us years ago that transgender had become the biggest gimmick for guys to pick up girls, who are all kinds of facinated by having some cute bf who is pretending to be a girl.
We also know of cases where the “transgender” is a much older guy in a relationship with a younger girl. It’s become a trendy pickup technique.
In my child’s case, it was a particular variant of non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a condition that manifests during puberty. There are 108 known variants. In her case, it caused hyperandrogenism, gender dysphoria, and when she hit puberty, her body began masculinizing naturally.
Her brain was recognizing the free-floating adrenal androgens as testosterone and set her puberty signals accordingly. My beautiful baby girl was morphing into a boy; deep voice, facial hair, dense muscle, squared jaw. If you met her, you would think she is a studious and polite young man.
Consulted with specialists as far away as Canada. Spent at least $30K trying to find a cure, only to be told we were too late to slow it down and it was only going to get worse. It consumed years of my life and was hell.
But even here on FR, we get the dipsh*ts that know next to nothing about these conditions and presume everyone is a pretender.
Thank you for knowing that’s not the case.