[A Navy Vet]

What a surprise that most of these gender confused low-self esteem people could probably find a simple benefit in rock climbing or sky-diving or lifting heavy weights twice a week. Maybe learning chess would help? I sincerely believe their sexual confusion lies in low self-esteem. They look towards their body, rather than mind. Just hit some baseballs for males; hit some volley balls for the females. Or learn martial arts to fight. Got hormone problems? Get a shot or take supplements. I’m sick of this crap - I don’t know what I should be. XX = female. XY = male. Female tomboys and weakling males have existed forever. Doesn’t mean they should mutilate themselves to join the fashionable Rainbow club.

[Maigrey]

I know a few and the underlying thread on each of them (a casual one but noticeable) is that all of them have a parent reject them (and to and including abuse them) for whatever reason (in one case, it's a mental health issue on the part of a parent and enabling behavior from the other one) and the person gets it in their head that if they can change, they'll get their parent's love.

It never happens. The abuse only gets worse/

But by then the person is so messed up mentally that they can't function except to engage in self-harming behaviors. And while there's plenty who will think that the tough-love approach works, it doesn't when they are in that stage. Simple honesty but with compassion does work - along with a drumbeat of "go get professional help" which sometimes helps and sometimes doesn't.

[Gay State Conservative]

David Reimer was a Canadian guy who,after a surgical mishap,was raised as a girl on the advice of at least one world famous "expert" (Dr John Money).

Long story short after a life of horror he decided to blow his brains out in his 30s.

The Story Of David Reimer