[ProudAmericanConservative]

Gender has nothing to do with how you feel about it, it just is, same as race. I can wake up tomorrow and decide to call myself black, but im white and the only person that will recognize me as black is myself. If you have a penis, you are a male and if you have a vagina, you are a female. Do you not realize how absurd you sound to most people, when you try to challenge this??

[Paul C. Jesup]

Gender has nothing to do with how you feel about it, it just is, same as race. I can wake up tomorrow and decide to call myself black, but im white and the only person that will recognize me as black is myself.

The human mind is far more complex than the body it is housed in.

By your views, a person is no more than the sum of the parts of that person.

And you are wrong.

[Dimensio]

Gender has nothing to do with how you feel about it, it just is, same as race. I can wake up tomorrow and decide to call myself black, but im white and the only person that will recognize me as black is myself. If you have a penis, you are a male and if you have a vagina, you are a female. Do you not realize how absurd you sound to most people, when you try to challenge this??

So anyone with a psychological degree who has actually done any research and claims that there might be something to this "gender identity disorder" issue and that some people who are born biologically as one gender genuinely relate as persons of the opposite biological gender doesn't know what they are talking about because you've already made up your mind?

That still leaves open the problem of the man whose gender was altered following a botched circumcision who never fit in as a "girl" and only in his adult life discovered why: he was born male.

You would think that if gender was determined solely by body parts he never would have noticed and he would still be a she.