Transgender subjects have been in the news and public discourse a lot lately, probably because of Bruce Jenner, but also because I think more and more people are starting to accept it as a reality and not as weird as it once was.
Because of my sister, I definitely see both sides. Rachel is trans, she was born male and started transitioning when she was 15. Nearly 10 years later, she is 100% completely female to me, and it’s weird to even think of her as having once been male. She doesn’t make a big deal out of being trans, and seldom even mentions it. She sees herself as a woman, not as a transgender woman, and I appreciate that about her because it’s also how I see her. No one that meets her now as an adult ever even suspects she was born male. I often feel like she has a more feminine personality and body than I do.
I love her and support her and would never say that she is anything other than female.
But–and I fully realize I am about to contradict myself in a major way–I don’t really accept transgenderism as a real thing, and I believe it’s not something God wants us to do. I think it’s a sin, just like I think homosexuality is a sin. That’s my belief, it comes from my religion, and I know a lot of people disagree with it and think I’m awful for feeling that way.
I don’t think men are born in women’s bodies, or vice versa. That just really doesn’t make sense. I don’t see a distinction between sex and gender, and I think a person’s gender really is determined by his or her sex organs and not by how he or she feels.
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