But then the OP really didn't set up those kind of scenarios. The OP was talking about someone who WILLFULLY did it and thus lived a life OUT OF MERE CHOICE.
No one chooses to be transgendered. Would you choose to live from early childhood on with almost everyone you know not believing you about your core being -- who you are? Trying to force you to think of yourself in ways that are just wrong. To have to deal every day people telling you that your problem is all in your head? Or worse, telling you that you are lying and just being stubborn?
The OP talked about a M2F transsexual. It did not talk about someone who chose to "play the woman." (See my last paragraph.)
About a year and a half ago, there was another thread on this subject. Back then I wrote:
It's still true.I cannot understand someone with GID, either. That does not, however, mean that I cannot relate to them. I know what it is to be different from all my peers, to not entirely fit in with the "guys," and to know that although I know that it is my genetics at fault, most people think it's all in my head. I have Asperger's, a form of AS (Autism Spectrum) condition. Asperger's is the most high-functioning version of AS, and is often accompanied by high intellegence and many "Aspies" seem almost normal, if somewhat nerdy.
While there are strategies that Aspies can learn to fit in a little better, there is no "cure." So yes, I can relate to those with GID.
That there is a procedure that allows someone with GID to live an almost perfectly normal life is a blessing for them and I, for one, am glad that it available to them. So what if it is "unnatural"? A lot of medical procedures were once considered "unnatural." For some religious sects (for example, Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses), the procedures, even simple ones such as blood transfusions, are still forbidden.
These scenarios you have listed are obviously problems and mutations. I am not going to argue that.
Good.
Because the vast majority of M2F transsexual are probably the result of the third scenario. They are born with normal male bodies, but because of the hormone imbalance at the time the structure of the brain was set, it is a female brain. There is no way for today's medicine to remake the brain to agree with the body. Remaking the body to agree with the brain is possible, but it is risky, and keeping the body hormonally balanced has lifelong consequences. It is never done on a whim. It is only done because there are no other options.
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