Asked of me on Quora, 15 Feb, 2022

“Do you think being transgender is a choice?”

My answer:

Having your sense of your gender be incongruent with your birth sex is not a choice.As to why it happens, there’s been a lot of research, but as of now, no clear answer.

Suffering from gender *dysphoria* is the result of suffering the misunderstanding, contempt, and “different/othering"of all of the ignorant…