[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

It is normal to feel uncomfortable and distrustful of things that are different. I have worked along side gay, lesbian, and found them friendly and capable as anyone. Some, in the beginning, may seem standoffish or unsure until they know how you are doing to treat them. Normal behavior in a new environment. This is my experience so far.
Straight or gay, I don't care. "Transgender", I don't care. I guess my feeling is that you can say what you would like to be, act the way you want to, but, sometimes you can't actually be what you would like to be. Your DNA is the determining factor of your physical gender. You can't change that. Surgery, hormones and drugs won't change your gender. The best you can do is mimic the other gender. A supposedly "transgender woman" is a actually an altered man, and not actually, genetically a woman. Transgender in humans is a lie.

And probably the "mental illness" part comes about when so many people are telling them that they are "living a lie" - and eventually, they begin to believe it. It seems like an alienating or even "shunning" experience. I think back to the Early American days when OUTLIER women were burned at the stake for being somehow(?) different. I wonder if an equal number of men were burned at the stake?