Something being innate doesn’t mean it’s a birth defect, just that it’s genetically set and you can’t change it, like eye colour, skin tone, and, studies keep saying, gender and sexual identity.

Not being offensive on purpose, promise. English is not my first language and I miss some of those nuances sometimes.

Race is not a neutral issue. Point in case, Michael Jackson and his vitiligo. He got a ton of grief for “trying to be white”. There’s even an insult for black people that act to white: oreo. Suddenly a white lady gets a yearning of being black and it’s a-ok? She’s just transracial and should be indulged? Good grief.

No, no they don’t, same as sexual preferences, you are born with them. Again, science keeps pointing that way.

Studies point the blame to hormone problems and imbalances at birth and in womb to being born transgender. In that light being born with a gender identity and gender characteristics of a different gender is something you can correct via medical procedures. Not calling transgender people sick, if that’s what you mean.

Yeah, why not, vitiligo and all that. Do we know of someone famous with vitiligo who started lightening his skin? Why yes, Michael Jackson. And he was accepted and not derrided at all because he was transracial... oh wait.

I’ve posted three studies on the issue, maybe look it up?

Well, let me give you my example. I’ve been studying English (and teaching it) for decades now. I practically only read books and magazines in English, listen to music in English and even try out American and English recipes regularly. Now, how stupid would I look if I suddenly declared myself an American? Wouldn’t I…

There are factors to determine gender identity, hormones, genetic triggers and specific organs. I can understand how something going wrong in one of those instances can cause you identifying with a gender and having characteristics of the other. Race, as I said upthread, doesn’t work like that. You don’t end up white…

Medicine evolves, we are only just now understanding how genetics work, mainly in combination with other factors to determine the characteristics of an individual, so yeah, it wasn’t a medical condition and now it is. But enough is known about race to understand you either have inherited genetic characteristics of a…

Not really, some trans cases, though not all, granted, are gender ambiguous, with genitalia and hormones of both genders, that’s a medical condition. Chosing a gender, in that case, is a medical decision. I heard about a study (to lazy to look it up, sorry) that pointed the finger at certain hormonal imbalances that…

I’m trying to explain it to myself as well and that’s the best way I can do it

One is a medical condition, the other cultural appropriation by someone disrespectful. One doesn’t simply co-opt other people’s race.

I was born in December, we’re almost the same age. My jam was always more rock n’ roll, mainly Queen, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and Guns n’ roses. Later I went totally grunge, so Madonna’s nineties albums barely registered. If I was going to emulate someone badass from the eighties, I’d go with Lita Ford, Kiss me deadly…

I was born in 1975 so I was able to follow al lof her career. Nothing in it has ever excited me, except maybe her Tamara de Lempicka paintings and her tailleurs in the Evita phase. Which pretty much sums up my excitement with her music.

I’d go full on Belle Epoque, the bigger and more extravagant, the better. Something like this

I think being trans is a medical condition, you identify as a gender and have phisycal characteristics of the other. That can and should be addressed as a medical condition, treating he individual in order to match the body with the sexual identity. Being white or black or any other colour under the rainbow is not a…

Hormones. I had really straight hair as achild and it started developing these waves in my twenties. It keeps getting wavier then curlier as time goes by (ha)

Are you telling me to go to hell or calling me stupid ? Because my answer certainly had nothing in it to merit a bless your heart, but you know, internet strangers....

It’s patriarchal, as in pater, which is Latin for father. And my non-STEM, Humanities ass could probably spend five or six paragraphs explaining how meritocracy is a myth, and a harmful one at that in today’s society. But I’m not doing that to someone who thinks someone as high profile as a Nobel Prize winner can say…