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Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

1. the one that wasn't what they were born as.

i think what you meant to say was “wasn’t what they were assigned at birth”

if i understood danielle’s comments correctly (i think i did) transgender fetal development produces mismatched brains and bodies, thus transgender people are born trans, it’s just that we don’t see the brains, and we assign genders per the visible appearances.

accurate language is essential, and its misuse is part of the problem here: to say one was “born” one thing and then “transitions” to another i think mischaracterizes the whole thing, as if it were a mere matter of choice , or caprice, or mere psychology.

ontogeny is a process, not a moment. let’s try to avoid folk notions to explain science.