Well, its something I have 'imagined I am' since about 7 or8 to my now late 50's - I would call that my gender identity - you might disagreee, but then you arent me. So as long as appropriate processes are in place to ensure that , as far as can be managed, the treatment is given to those who will benefit from it, managed through an appropriate professional environment, then YES RobinMoiraWhite
Gender Identity is a set of assumptions about how each of the sexes should behave, speak, dress, their role in society, relative position to each other. It is entirely socially constructed. Feminists reject these assumptions - we don't believe in a female 'role', we believe we can dress as we like, speak as we like, behave as we like. We are women because we have a female body, that's it.
It's not liberating to say that male and female roles and stereotypes in our society are fixed, and we can either 'identify' with them or with the opposite sex stereotype. That's not liberation, it's imprisonment.
I grew up with a stay at home mum, scared of my dad, who thought it feminine to pretend to be unable to understand basic mathematics. She had 5 children. I loved her dearly but rejected every single element of the woman role she represented and have followed none of it myself. I am, however, still a woman because I have a female body. But I don't inhabit her woman role, a regressive restrictive version of 'being a woman' invented by society to keep women down and which feminists have spent decades dismantling. I am very very grateful that they have. My life has offered me opportunities and respect she never had. Gender Identity is the new regression - 'gender non conforming' means that there is something you should 'conform to'. Feminism says 'no more gender boxes' - and thank God for that.