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You know a genuine hermaphrodite, or a "transgender"?

I know none of the former, and have had professional and personal dealings with the latter over the years. Then there are some really sad cases that I've only observed on the street. Do you really think I could have gone to art school, lived through disco, lived in Manhattan for 23 years, worked in the fashion, jewelry, high-end ladies' retail, and fine art fields without encountering a few real live trannies up close??

Hell, there were not one but TWO men dressed as women working the phones on the last political campaign I worked on. I was polite. But those two were MEN, and the only thing ambiguous about them was their grasp on reality.

The phenomenon you describe simply doesn't happen very often. You're not "born into the wrong body" simply because you think you are. You could only make that claim if you really were born with ambiguous genitalia, or with a male and a female set. And 100,000 isn't even a drop in the ocean in a population of 280 million (there are probably more albinos). It doesn't even begin to account for the number of people who've decided they're "transgendered".