That seems reasonable enough.

Oh, sure. One of the things that's difficult for someone in transition to accept is something that, unfortunately, is also 100% true:

Transition does not fix everything.

It doesn't make your problems go away. It brings with it a set of NEW problems. It helps with gender dysphoria, and that's it. Even then, depending on…

Oh, nice one.

I was going to mention the Navy Seal who transitioned recently, but yours is better.

Did you...just use "PMS" as a verb?

Anyway, no, David didn't menstruate, if that's what you're asking. He took pills that provided hormone supplements, but they didn't say, "Oh, by the way, these pills are 'cause the doctor accidentally burned off your penis and we raised you as a girl instead LOL"

Instead, Reimer later…

Yeah. There seems to be a...well, a lack of perspective.

There aren't many groups it's broadly okay to openly attack and demean, but trans people are definitely one of them. That's not even taking into account the institutional bigotry (housing and employment discrimination, refusal of medical service, mistreatment by…

What sounds silly is you insisting your "common sense" trumps the medical consensus, without any actual evidence or credentials of your own.

And I knew you might come to that conclusion about the Reimer case, but you've got it backwards: that case proves (well, anecdotally, anyway) that gender identity is hard-wired…

Oh, no, not at all. Most discussions about trans people should come with a little asterisk and a caveat "...but it's really more complicated than that". And even with stuff like the brain structure study, there's some question of how much was a result of birth and how much the brain actually changed as a result of…

"It's as simple as that. It's as clear as night and day to me. You won't convince me that I'm wrong in believing a fact I know to be true, sorry ;3"

So what you're saying is...your "gut intuition" trumps medical science.

Awesome.

I know I won't convince you. I just want you to try to take a step back and look at how…

The high school one is easy: it's a non-issue.

See, to have access to the locker rooms in a high school, the kid would have to be living full-time as that gender. That almost certainly means supervised treatment by a licensed psychologist. It also means going to school dressed that way, being referred to that way, etc.

I…

And again I ask, your qualifications are....what, exactly? What makes you more qualified than the medical community to hand down your wisdom on the subject?

And if nothing is hard-wired, how do you address the David Reimer case?

(I'm not even going to get into the insulting and stupid "furries" comparison, because…

Sorry for the delayed response (Breaking Bad finale and all that).

Yes, it still happens, though not nearly as much as it did. "Gatekeeper syndrome" is still very much a thing.

See, a lot of people assume that, say, getting GRS (genital reassignment surgery) is just something that can be done on a whim. Same with…

Some people have an awfully hard time with basic human decency.

If you say so. I'm guessing you're an authority on the subject? I mean, since you're contradicting the medical community, I figure you must have some kind of evidence or expertise to back it up.

I would've responded earlier, but I was busy with something less stressful and depressing than this conversation: the Breaking Bad finale.

"Oh, my mistake. It's perfectly healthy to want to mutilate your own genitals and masquerade in the opposite sex's clothing. That's not a mental illness at all. What was I thinking?…

"So you're equating a mental illness that causes the victim to mutilate their own genitalia and/or masquerade as the opposite set with the actual, physiological effects of heart disease? "

Just because you say it's a mental illness doesn't make it one. Again, what are your qualifications on this subject that make you a…

It's not a "special privilege", any more than allowing gay people to use the same restrooms as "the gender they're attracted to" is a special privilege.

Uh, trans people (even pre-operative ones) use the restrooms of their identified gender all the time. There's nothing stopping someone from doing the exact thing you suggest right now.

Why?

"So there is historical evidence of Cro-Magnons performing sex changes procedures and apes mutilating their genitals to pass off as the opposite sex to potential mates? I would love to read these."

No, but that's silly. There IS evidence of ancient humanity recognizing the issue, though, such as "male" skeletons that…

Absolutely. No one is born with an in-depth understanding of trans issues, including trans people. Everyone is affected by the (almost universally terrible) media stereotypes and portrayals. There's no shame in that.

It's just when people assume, somehow, that they know better (better than everyone else, better than…