Agreed. Sex AND Gender do not change based upon how you feel. You can identify yourself as whatever you want and get whatever surgeries you want, but it doesn't change the fact that if your DNA were to be tested, it would list your birth sex...not how you feel.
You guys do realize that intersex people- people BORN with the sex characteristics of BOTH GENDERS exist, right? So no- you're not simply either xx or xy. (Replying primarily to the post you replied to- just didn't feel like digging through the thread to find it)
I wouldn't be surprised if one day science proves that the vast majority of transgender people have a super super super mild form of something like being intersex.
From my understanding all fetuses are female until a signal is sent out to flood the fetus with hormones that basically turn it in to a boy. Can you not see how insanely easy it would be for things to be grey because of this? What is the result if that happens when it shouldn't? What if it happens too early or too late?
we don't know everything. Just because we can't explain the cause behind someone being transgender doesn't mean there isn't a total valid reason that is 100% outside of that persons control.
So many people have been persecuted over the years for stuff that society blamed them for/viewed through some creepy moral lens, when in reality it was entirely out of that persons control all along and could be fully explained by physical/chemical abnormalities.
Point being: don't judge what you don't understand. To assume that someone being transgender is the definition of sexual immorality or that it "can't" exist because you're either 100% male or 100% female is total ignorance.
You want your kids to be safe in a bathroom, fight for individual bathrooms, or bathrooms without those shitty stall doors that have a gap a mile wide at the hinge...but don't take it out on people who are already suffering FAR beyond what you can comprehend.