Quote Originally Posted by Teresa View Post
Geena,
New research has shown that we are indeed born this way , our wiring is different . Personally I can't blame outside influences , so I don't believe our environment has that much influence , if the seed is sown it will grow . I've never looked to blame anyone my brain lead me down this road , nature not nurture took it's course . Experimentation comes out of our brain's need to explore what was already there .

We are put in the LGBTQ community because we share one important fact , we were all born as we are . They can no more isolate the gene that makes someone gay than they can someone who is transgender . Gender dysphoria is not down to nurture , for good or bad nature made us this way .
It is true, the research on brain structure is growing, but pretty solid at this point. The issue is that our society positions us to view it as something that is wrong, or disordered. How one identifies their gender doesn't always indicate their chromosomes; and that is the way our species has been for a very long time. If you think, you can imagine there are some evolutionary advantages for our species to express gender fluidity. We survived because we needed each other as hunter/gatherers and there is a building body of evidence that gender and sex were thought of very differently in those times.

I would argue the 'disorder' we experience as a civilization is the irrational fixation on shaming those who identify outside of traditional gender assignments. Shame isn't productive, and you don't deserve it. You have worked hard to build and maintain what and who you are, be proud of that and protect that.