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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's definitely a trend. It's being promoted heavily by the powerful gay lobby, which lost its major fundraising hook when the Supreme Court approved gay marriage.

There is little scientific evidence to support the idea that humans can change genders but whatever....
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Gay rights advocacy groups don't advocate for people to be gay or trans.  They advocate for gay and trans people to be treated as people and accorded the same civil rights that straight and cisgender people take for granted.   This is not complicated.

Trans acceptance/civil rights advocacy is not about people "changing genders."  It's about allowing people to be who they are.

There is a mountain of scientific evidence that gender is complex and not binary, and this is not a particularly new development.  Here's a simple blog post explaining some of research into the the biology of transgenderism.  http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/

Notable points include:

"Transgender women tend to have brain structures that resemble cisgender women, rather than cisgender men....In 1995 and 2000, two independent teams of researchers decided to examine a region of the brain called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) in trans- and cisgender men and women... Interestingly, both teams discovered that male-to-female transgender women had a BSTc more closely resembling that of cisgender women than men in both size and cell density, and that female-to-male transgender men had BSTcs resembling cisgender men."

"Science tells us that gender is certainly not binary; it may not even be a linear spectrum. Like many other facets of identity, it can operate on a broad range of levels and operate outside of many definitions. And it also appears that gender may not be as static as we assume. At the forefront of this, transgender identity is complex – it’s unlikely we’ll ever be able to attribute it to one neat, contained set of causes, and there is still much to be learned. But we know now that several of those causes are biological. These individuals are not suffering a mental illness, or capriciously “choosing” a different identity. "

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