re: God dictates gender, which does not exist on a spectrum and cannot be changed

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some men (sex) prefer to be feminine (gender)

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therein lies the rub - prefer. i thought you were going to refer to levels of testosterone/hormones. the preference you are referring to is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. it is epigenetic at most and completely socially/emotionally manufactured at least.

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a man in a dress is not a woman (sex), but he is feminine (gender).

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and this is the kind of silly reasoning we've been allowing to fester among young people. a person can be born a female and be a tomboy but still be at peace with being female. GASP! SCANDALOUS! our society has led people to believe that being a tomboy female means there is something wrong and gender reassignment is needed. vice versa with males. humanity got along just fine with butchy women. sex changes are a novel, unnecessary thing.

now, you are probably going to respond that certain people exhibit ssa and that is substantiation that gender reassignment is a necessary option at least. if ssa is epigenetic, which it might be, it certainly isn't more than that, it doesn't have to be any different than obesity/substance abuse/violence/kleptomania/pyromania/etc. those are proclivities which either get acted upon or not.

just because a man feels ssa, that does not mean he SHOULD have sex with another man any more than a person who feels pyromania SHOULD set someone's house on fire. homosexuals are CHOOSING to have same sex encounters. biologically speaking, there is no reason for a man to have sex with another man. it serves absolutely no purpose whether socially or biologically. it is purely a psychological placebo, a coping mechanism. anything epigenetic can be resisted provided the person has the willpower and support system.

we have unfortunately stigmatized ssa however, some people are trying to deal with it as it is, such as narth. they are looking at the epigenetic aspect of it and helping people deal with it instead of going down the psychological dead end/slippery slope that is homosexuality or alternative lifestyles.