I appreciate your posting these excerpts from the interviews, and found the comments of the youngsters in the situation interesting, like “Ariel” knowing he will actually never be able to bear children, and not even experience a lot of what the young women in the locker room are talking about.
When there was the controversy about the boy who wanted to use the girls’ locker room, I remember thinking that clearly he does not actually feel like a girl, because if he did, he would understand why they do not want a boy in their locker room! He does not have the feminine desire for personal privacy.
Basically, what transgender people seem to feel is a yearning to be what they **think** the opposite sex is...
“Basically, what transgender people seem to feel is a yearning to be what they **think** the opposite sex is...”
Agreed. And it’s almost like a “grass is greener over there” sort of desire, fixation and obsession.