"I am trans and heres something to consider. When i think of becoming a girl, i think of stripping away society and my clothes and looking in a mirror. My mind says, "no thats wrong it shouldn't be like that". What i desire is to be female at the most fundamental level. So much so that i could stand naked and be recognozed as female. What i do from there is up to me. How i dress or behave, etc. is all subject to my whims. These are the constructs you talk about.

But how do i know that my body should be that way? Whats causing that? Theres a lot of brain chemistry happening and none of it relates to social constructs. It relates to hormones and hormone receptors in the brain, it relates to regions in the brain responsible for internal body-mapping and other areas relating to empathy (whether we empathise with one sex over the other) and self perception.

Hormones. Most men would be miserable without testosterone. Male to female trans people feel amazing. This could suggest that our brains are preprogrammed with receptors for specific hormone types. The brains of trans people really benefit from hormone therapy.

Theres a sociological component associated with puberty, like developing social and romantic/sexual interests. A lot of us trans people would describe first puberty as incomplete or lacking. We often never completely developed these concepts. For example, having been gone through a second puberty i feel like i wanted to make friends and socialize and be apart of my peers. I never had those desires, i just thought like child that didnt know how to be anything. My development in this way ramped up with hormones.

So hormones help us develop psychologically into complete adults. Without them we are extremely stunted and it is very hard to relate to people.

So what about the "sense of gender" that you think is complete bullshit. Well, before i started this whole thing, i had some idea that i was really a girl and that transitioning would improve my dreaded life. I didnt quite believe it would help much and i was embarrassed to try something like this, but after a few weeks on hormones i felt amazing. Like a vital nutrient had been missing this whole time. And considering where i am now in my transition, there is no doubt that my brain was signaling to me that it needs female sex hormone and it did that by giving me a sense of feeling like a girl, which is really like having so much empathy for women that i begin to see myself as a unique woman myself.

This whole time, my brains been struggling to get the hormone it needs and it was doing everything it could to tell my conscious self. I interpreted those signals as gender identity and underwent hormone therapy and social transition. My brain is very pleased with the hormone, the breasts, the soft skin, the way i socialize now, the fact that other women empathize with me and that other people see my body and see a female. But my brain is still not happy with my genitals because naked, i look half man half women and my brain doesnt accept that. I hope that gives you some insight to how a trans person might rationalize their transition. Some would say its all self fulfilling prophecies, but honestly im genuinely happy and i dont have to force myselg to be any one way any more. I dont have to force happiness and i dont have to force my gender ( well not nearly as much ). I just feel normal like everythings in its right place for once. Not like some delusion. Im too smart to let myself become delusional. And when people suggest that trans people are delusional, it irks us to no end because of how complicated it is to express ourselves to every person who is still clueless."

Ok, taking this at face value and it seems sincere enough, then here is something that's going unconsidered. If this happened occasionally, then it could be considered no more than a glitch, like cerebral palsy or conjoined twins, but its happening all over. Weeding out the AGPs, and the confused Tumblr-driven teens, there's still a sizeable contingent of people who are like the above.

So how about the role played by our utterly poisoned environment? This whole thing coincides beautifully with the advent of pumping meat full of hormones...even vegetarian mothers would be affected since it ends up in the water too and therefore in the plants.