re: Anybody here have any Trans loved ones?

I loved my first Trans Am! Bandit clone...

There’s a trans poster on here, seems pretty cool

No, but I wanted a Trans when I was in high school, but never got one.


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One of my best friends is trans. An amazing person, with a wonderful sense of humor.

After taking Endocrinology, Embryology and Ob/Gyn in medical school, respectively, I do find it interesting that the rates of Disorder of Sex Developments seems to correlate strongly with the actual amount of trans people in the US. In fact, there are probably a lot more people who have a Disorder of Sex Development than there are trans people, because the expression of these disorders is on a spectrum, with varying degrees of progression. Suggesting all these people have gender dysphoria without acknowledging the possibility (and even likelihood) of an underlying endocrine disorder seems to misunderstand the issues, as endocrine disorders will have physiological, psychological and social components that we are only beginning to understand. We give a lot of leeway to people who have Disorders of Androgen Synthesis, such as people who have 46 XY with Androgen Insensitivity, and may present initially as female and then transition to male at puberty, or choose to keep themselves female. I don't understand the insistence of writing off every trans person as having gender dysphoria, as even that would have a pathophysiology, which people seem to ignore.

Yeah that's why I said I read it was 1.4 but feel like I see them all the time.

I don’t know a single trans person

There’s no such thing as transgender , it’s an asinine misnomer.

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I just read that 1.4 million Americans are trans.

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I think that sounds way too high

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Must be me but I consider one person in every 235 (using 330 million as our population) to be a large enough number to take notice of. That equates to about one in every 75 households.

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You forgot to add the real number of illegal aliens to your 330 million number.

My sister-in-law is now my brother-in-law and is engaged to an OT 7 woman. My brother-in-law still has female parts downtown but you'd never guess that, full beard, built, looks 100% like a man. My biggest curiosity is I'd like to know what goes on in the bedroom.