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Originally Posted by Gilda
apolian gave the standard empathy story most transsexuals are taught to help others understand: Imagine you wake up tomorrow in the body of a man. You've covered with thick, course body hair, you have a penis and testicles, narrow hips, no breast development, a much larger, heavier skeleton and upper body musculature, a deeper voice. Your body is flooded with testosterone, resulting in your getting angry and aggressive more easily and more often. Would you simply accept the evidence of your body, or would you seek to correct the problem?
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I'm not sure if thats a good analogy, and I bring it up because there must be something fundamentally different in someone who is a transexual vrs someone who is not. In my case lets say I woke up a woman tomorrow, a not unpopular theme in bad tv/cinima, provided I had all the right body parts and my BRAIN was female as well then I think I would start to think/act female. The female hormones would take over my 'female' brain and I would 'be' female. Feelings I had as a male would be foreign to me, and I might remember what it was like to be male, I wouldn't BE male.
In someone who is a transexual, whatever part of the brain says 'male/female' must be switched, and my personal theory is that its the hormone sensitivity that does it. You might be making all the testosterone in the world but if your brain chemoreceptors are female, you will not have the male reaction to the hormone but the female one. Various degrees of this difference may explain homosexuality as well, though my guess is that for homosexuality it is a different set of receptors which are switched since the issue isn't identity. As much as we hate to admit it, sex is just chemical, and can go off and on like a light at times, I see no reason why sexual identity couldn't be something as basic.