Quote (OgreDan @ Apr 25 2011 10:48pm)
Call me what you want. I have my beliefs. I do not believe simply wanting to be a girl makes you a girl. You are born as something. You can't change what you were born as. I don't care if you call me insensitive. I don't believe he is a girl. Would I be nice to him if I knew him? Of course I would. He is a person to. We just have different beliefs. Just like I'm not yelling at you, because you are a person as well. I believe in being nice to people, but just because I don't believe he is a girl doesn't make me insensitive. I believe we are born as something. If you have a problem with that, well, quite honestly it doesn't bother me. It's not like I'm going to lose any sleep at night for having a harmless belief. If you want to flame others for not believing everything you do, that's fine with me.
And she was born as a female with male genitalia. She didn't "simply want" to be a girl. She always was one, and that's something you aren't understanding. No one wakes up and decides "Welp, guess I'm going to be a girl from here on out." It's like being having same/opposite sex attractions. You're attracted to what you're attracted to. You don't consciously decide to become attracted to one sex or the other.
Quote (thundercock @ Apr 25 2011 11:11pm)
Aren't sexes defined by their sexual organs?
That depends. Are you talking about "sex" in the scientific sense or "sex" in the colloquial sense? Scientifically, yes. Your chromosomes define your sex, while your mind defines your gender. Colloquially, no. It's a "mind over matter" thing. And while you're in the process of transitioning from one physical sex to the other (through a process of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and for some, the actual sex change operation), you live your life as if you've already had the procedure as part of the process. So if she is MTF trans then she is, for all intents and purposes, a female.