I'm not posting in the feminism board because I want quite a varied response from people who may not share the same opinion. I've seen so many threads on here relating to transgender and it's something I really don't know much about.
I feel terribly sorry for anyone who feels they were born in the wrong body. I find this a difficult concept to comprehend because our physical exterior shouldn't have to dictate anything in our lives. It shouldn't have to determine anything more than our biology.
Do people think that it's society having separate categories for boys & girls which makes people feel like they're in the wrong body? For example, boys clothes/girls clothes, brownies/cubs etc? I know as a society there aren't so many divides between the sexes as there once was. I'm almost 30 and we had a separate boys playground and girls playground at school. I suppose if I had grown up feeling as though i would have felt more comfortable in the boys playground than the girls playground and felt more comfortable at cubs than brownies and in the boys clothes than the girls clothes, maybe I would now feel as though I had been trapped in the wrong body all those years. The real issue in that situation though would be the divides we had created, rather than the person actually having the wrong genitalia?
I may be way off the mark and I'm really hoping to be educated by some people who are more knowledgable on this topic. It's such a big issue these days and it's something I feel I should understand better than I do.