My opinions on the term transgender…
The transgender issue can be confusing, so let’s define some terms. It used to be that most people considered sex and gender to be one in the same. This is changing as the transgender movement and those that support it are insisting that sex is determined by how one is biologically born and gender is determined by the identity of the brain. Some people who have this experience do not embrace transgender identity. They feel their brain is not properly identifying with their body and see the issue as a mental disorder. Others embrace their transgender identity and seek to normalize it.
The most referenced evidence for inborn gender identity is brain scans. When the brains of transgender people are scanned, they often exhibit some similar patterns as those of the opposite sex. Therefore, a biological man who identifies as transgender would claim his brain scan shows he has a female brain. But as it turns out, neuroplasticity largely or completely invalidates this argument. The brain changes based on the thoughts, experiences, and other information it stores. Given this, people who think alike, such as artists or accountants or writers, often have some similarities in their brain scans. So it is no surprise that if a man constantly thinks about being a woman, that his brain scan would show some similarities with that of women. What if such a man dies and this body is donated to medical research? What if his brain was removed and students had to identify it by the organ alone? The evidence of both DNA and size alone will lead the students to conclude that they are studying a male brain. Therefore, the reasonable conclusion is that transgender identity is not a biological reality but a mental state that is not ordered with the body. The masquerade of transgenderism is classified as a mental disorder and should not be normalized but wrather treated.
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