Cross dresser is to trans what the f word is to gay people. Don't say it again.
If I don't reply, you're probably on my ignore list for something I forgot already

BDD is a completely separate thing.
Just because it's common in a group doesn't mean it is defining and limited to that group.

Really? Are far as i was aware the WHO still considered transgenderism a mental illness. Body dysmorphic disorder or whatever u like to call it, but an illness anyway. Is it really not considered an abnormality now? I would be interested to know if that was so.

Aaannnddd you just outed yourself as an idiot. If you ACTUALLY had a degree in any of those fields you would know that it is NO LONGER considered a mental illness. Psychology is a field which has had massive breakthroughs in the last 4 decades. Try to keep up.
See: DSM-V

Says you. Those of us with degrees in Sociology, Psychology, and Biological Sciences beg to differ. It is most definitely a mental illness.
IF you
really
had a degree in Psychology, you wouldn't be saying that. Read the DSM-V.

Way to state your opinion as if it were fact. Also you can have a degree in sh*t for all I care. Doesn't give you the right to pass judgement on others. It is not a mental illness and I doubt you have a degree in anything besides douchebaggery.

Not a mental illness
Says you. Those of us with degrees in Sociology, Psychology, and Biological Sciences beg to differ. It is
most definitely
a mental illness.

Not a mental illness

No one chooses their mental illness.

Besides Caitlyn Jenner, who is getting cash for being transgender? Most trans people are everyday folks with a problem most of us can't empathize with. I don't imagine they choose to "pretend to be a freak" where is the advantage in that?

Please do NOT GO to Canada. Canada is not far enough. I want you to go to Antarctica. Then, maybe, you will chill out..FREAK!
Have a good life.live well and let others live well
Marty

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Either way there would be exceptions. They won't ALL act and feel the same way. They're human too.

Sorry but that's a very broad sweeping statement to make. x

Who cares how closet case cross dressers feel . They try to say they are
real trans women despite living as men. They are an insult to real trans
women.

Many transgender people do not pursue surgery. That doesn't mean they don't fully believe and want to live as the gender they feel they are.

The problem with your statement, is that they found lots of straight male brains that had the same similarities to female brains.
Firstly, what are you talking about? The study was focused on an area of the brain known to have different structures in cis females and cis males, so your quoted text is irrelevant.
Secondly, I don't think trans people are defective, nor did I say that. You're the one who brought up that word.

The problem with your statement, is that they found lots of straight male brains that had the same similarities to female brains. So what your brains are physically don't necessarily mean you'll identify as female. There's a lot more going on than anyone chooses to admit. So many people feel the need to blame it on someone else. The simple solution is to stop treating people who feel this way as defective. After all, there are plenty of so called normal people who have plenty of mental deficiencies. So nobody's perfect. Until the world can understand that, we'll always have nutcases that want to tell others how wrong they behave, while insisting that they, themselves, are of course perfect. So to those of you who feel the need to insist on butting into other people's lives, all I can say is blow it out your butt. And just leave the rest of the world to live their lives the way they want to. Because it's none of your business.

Being in love changes the levels of natural drugs in your brain, but the study I linked specifies that brain structures are different. So your analogy is false.
If you identify as another gender psychologically, of course your brain will function differently, but that's likely the effect, not the cause.
Proof?

The face that there are physiological correlations does not equal causation.
You can see when someone is in love by MRI scans too but no one says that is a purely biological thing with no attachment to environment. It's a leap to say it's biological rather than psychological (putting intersex people to the side). I get tired of people using correlation as though it is causation, it is not the same. If you identify as another gender psychologically, of course your brain will function differently, but that's likely the effect, not the cause.

http://youtu.be/Erexuu8PTo8
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22987018
The YouTube video is about how transsexual brains and non-transsexual (cisgender) brains were dissected to find similarities. The article is about how an MRI was used to analyze transsexual brains and cisgender brains.
In both cases the transsexual brain was shown to either match the brain or be nearly identical to the gender of they identify as. So the transsexual female brain matches the cisgender female brain. It's biological, not psychological.

And where's the 'biological' evidence for that? It's a mental disorder.

Being a transsexual is biological. Biologically they have the brain of the sex they identify as. It doesn't matter whether or not they take hormones, get surgery, or even go to therapy, none of that will change that transsexuals were born as transsexuals, it's not a choice.

Yeah, Maura, the guy who likes to indulge in women's affectations like clothes, name and such. All outward manifestations and only inward in psychological and emotional ways. He is not taking hormones or opting for surgery or even undergoing counseling. He just enjoys the trappings of the female species.
Cheers
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Marty