John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON STATIONGOSSIP
“Identical twins, 23, who were born female are now brothers after BOTH coming out as transgender - and they're going through the transition process together (14 Pics)”
http://www.stationgossip.com/2018/10/identical-twins-23-who-were-born-female.html
This article is interesting in that it points out some of the immense complexity, not all of it even understood, involved in human sexual identity.
The Internet is used by many ignorant and cruel people to make fun of transgender people or, indeed, anyone who is different in any way.
But the reality is that transgender people are a normal result of genetics and how brains work, matters that we do not at all thoroughly understand.
There is a proportion of transgender people occurring in every human population, just as is the case for gays or still other sexual identities.
I can't help thinking what a terrible ordeal these young men have put themselves through, but they simply cannot help it. This is what they must do.
We do know that human sexual identity involves far more than the particular set of organs with which you are born, but that simplistic view remains fairly common.
There are portions of the brain involved and perhaps other organs.
Just think about the immense range of feelings and attitudes around what people find attractive and unattractive, just in the heterosexual population. “A leg man,” “a breast man,” fetishes over things like feet, etc. The variety is almost endless with many subtle variations.
Think about the immense range of behaviors we observe, from asexuality, a very real phenomenon, to those who are sex addicts.
None of the differences seem to involve sexual organs. They all involve the mind and how it is wired or how some aspect of its chemistry works.
We have so very much yet to learn, just about ourselves.
