Gender is hardwired.
That is not evidence of an innate transgender.
By itself it is not evidence of innate transgender but you seem to come off as someone not even willing to accept this as a possibility, which is bizarre considering the vastness and variety of mental phenomena currently in existence. Like I mentioned earlier, hermaphrodites (i.e., the intersexed) exist, yes? Why is it so difficult or even impossible to entertain that this could occur at the level of the brain instead of just at the level of the genital region?
The psychiatrist I brought up deduces that where gender is hardwired, and those like this boy are naturally convinced, transgenders approach it with confusion- they never just 'know', they have a feeling.
Aside from it being his mere assertion, one would nevertheless expect that a child whose body tells him he is one sex but his brain is telling him a different story is going to approach the issue with confusion. Dr. Berger, especially in the
article you referenced, expresses confusion, especially when he says things like:
"Some times, some of these people have claimed that they are 'a woman trapped in a man's body' or alternatively 'a man trapped in a woman's body...The medical treatment of delusions, psychosis or emotional happiness is not surgery."
He further goes on to say, according to that article, that cosmetic surgery will not change the chromosomes of a human being. Both of these statements express confusion because the point isn't whether or not these individuals are, in fact, actually of the opposite sex. "Gender dysphoria" is a recognized disorder that causes real suffering and it is entirely independent of the issue Dr. Berger addresses. Even if, purely for the sake of argument, a person does not actually have a brain whose sex is different from said person's body, that doesn't change the fact that the person is truly experiencing dysphoria. Even Dr. Berger, per your article, calls it a mental illness. Calling something a mental illness establishes it as an actual biological phenomena, not some mere liberal conspiracy as you ludicrously suggest. For Berger to then say the following is even more ridiculous:
"There seems to me to be no medical or scientific reason to grant any special rights or considerations to people who are unhappy with the sex they were born into, or to people who wish to dress in the clothes of the opposite sex."
Special accommodations are often given to those we recognize as having mental illness. We also modify our society when we recognize that the way we've thought about certain groups of people was mistaken, illness or not (e.g., gay people, left-handed persons, redheads, etc.). Berger is simply an odious man, especially considering that he called for the ridicule of children who exhibit such symptomology, which lead to anti-gay organization NARTH to even
pull an article of his whom his readers (which are not known for their friendliness toward the LGBT community) felt was offensive (
here's a picture of the offensive comment). When even NARTH does such a move on you, you know you're stepped way out of line.
Also, as a side note, mentioning a lone M.D. making bald assertions isn't really evidence of anything scientific any more than Dr. OZ (also an M.D.) claiming that the pseudo-science of homeopathy is legitimate and using his mere credentials as some kind of weight. The claims will rise and fall with respect to the
evidence, and it appears Dr. Berger as opted out of analyzing said evidence to instead make incoherent and irrelevant claims.
It's just homosexuality gone even more astray, that's all it is.
There are persons who are transgender (and have transitioned) but are heterosexual and those who are homosexual.
Here is one such example.
