Originally Posted by
Fifteen Dollar Eagle
Even the tiny minority of women who were born biologically male (or vice versa) identify with a gender, even if it wasn't the one they were born with. Surely if someone believes that their own gender is unimportant and decides to downplay it and become completely gender neutral, that should be their choice, not something forced on them from birth.
Actually, I'm a male transsexual, but I do not identify with the male or a female gender. My sex and my gender, like everyone else's, are separate things. There are actually a lot of people who do not fit into the gender binary.
It's silly to call this "forcing" when nearly
every child is forced into one gender or the other - the fact that I was a "girl" was celebrated and forced on me since birth, but I knew my body should be different than it was. If you could force someone into a gender identity, transsexuals and transgender people would not exist.