Your inability to understand

I spend a lot of time sitting outside coffee shops, and overhear a lot of conversations.

Today I am hearing two individuals discussing their opinions of transgender lives. One person reaches the conclusion that since there are only two genders, there is can be no “third-gender” or transgender people. “It just doesn’t make sense.” 

As most people, I was born in the ‘right’ body. Gender identity has never been an issue for me. But my inability to personally relate doesn’t make the concept invalid.

I don’t relate to being able to run a 4-minute mile. It is unlikely that, even with proper training, that would ever be a reality for me.  Back in high school, I was happy with my 8-minute mile.  But my inability to relate doesn’t invalidate the concept. I have to accept that there are some people, a small minority, that if fact can run a mile in 4 minutes.

Science says there is a difference between men’s brains and women’s brain.  There are distinct anatomical differences. This isn’t to say one is better than the other. Just that there are differences in sizes and shapes.

Born into a woman’s body, with (I assume) a woman’s brain, I enjoy a certain symmetry in life.

But what if the gender of the brain that was placed in this body didn’t match the gender of the body into which it was placed?

Its not an argument of “If God makes mistakes.” Bodies and brains are made. Usually they match, occasionally the don’t

The attempted suicide rate of transgender individuals is 41%. The “successes” provide sufficient autopsy evidence. The gender a person identifies with is based on the brain’s biology, not the bodies’ biology,

I can’t imagine what it would be like to live life in a body that didn’t match my mind.

But my inability to understand doesn’t change the science.  

The inability of religion to grasp transgender issues doesn’t change science. 

My inability to understand isn’t a sign “they” are wrong.  It’s a sign that I simply don’t know enough to understand.