I understand valid scientific research is showing that transgenderism is a mental disorder and not a natural occurrence. I recall someone at John Hopkins recently published a paper on this and I read another a few years ago from some place else - surely online.
What’s really interesting is that John Hopkins was the FIRST to start surgically ‘fixing’ these poor people. Follow-up studies made them realize that most were as unhappy in their new gender as they were before. Since then JH has stopped doing these surgeries.
I am glad to hear of such research, but it really isn’t necessary. All we really need to do is recgnize that the objective reality that one is born with VERY rare exceptions involving genetic disorders) either male or female. There is no escaping that reality. If it’s not apparent by appearance, genetic testing can determine which gender someone is.
If someone claims to be a dog, we don’t put a leash on them and a newspaper on the floor for them to go to the bathroom on. We give them appropriate treatment to fix their mental problem. If someone claims to be Napolean, we send him to a shrink. We don’t give him troops to command and try to conquer Europe with. Denial of reality used to be recognized as the mental illness it is. We should not ridicule or persecute such people, but we also should not enable their mental illness.