I'm reading a book sent to me by a good friend about the human brain and how it affects a newly conceived fetus. For it's first six weeks, the fetus is a formless blob with a brain developing according to it's chromosome arrangement. Two X chromosomes will produce a female brain while an X and Y will initiate a male. After the brain takes control the hormones testosterone and estrogen come into play. If they are in balance, the fetus will develop naturally with a body consistent with brain sex. Too much testosterone or too much estrogen will cause the fetus to develop a body inconsistent with it's brain. Thus a transgender is born.
There is no way to discern people who have this condition from exterior observation and usually they don't realize it themselves until normally in their early teens. Boys tend toward style and clothes while girls become tomboys interested in sports and masculine pursuits but this in itself doesn't prove one is transgender. One can only know if a person tells you themselves.
Many more studies prove male and female brains are not the same in the way they are wired and how they process incoming information. Working together a man and a woman can solve a problem easier than either could working alone. This is true of any cooperative project and has nothing to do with personal relationships or any other construct people use to support a belief or point of view.
Statistically the US population is 1.7% gay, 1.8% bisexual and 0.6% transgender. This implies that for every thousand people using a restroom anywhere six will be transgender. This implies that any law concerning bathroom etiquette is absurd and only enacted for nefarious or religious reasons. But that's another blog for another day.
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