Gender Identity

Transgender Defined and Significance
Politically Correct Answer
Degrees of Transgenderism
Biology is Complicated
Interesting Opinions

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June 18, 2025 Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Transgender Care Ban
Care ban for those under 18 include puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery.
Treatments are for gender dysphoria, the condition characterized by distress
over the incongruence between one’s gender identity and birth-assigned sex.

Transgender Defined

Transgender individuals are uncomfortable with their assigned birth gender,
which is solely based on easily visible physical sexual characteristics. Source:
They want to be identified by their personal gender choice. <4 min. video
Problem: Its difficult for some Americans to accept any level of Transgenderism.
It's difficult to accept that different levels of male/female hormones,
like genital differences, affect gender self-identity.

Transgender Significance

In December of 2024, NCAA President Charlie Baker was aware of fewer than 10
ff the 500,000+ NCAA student-athletes were trans men. source

2020 Williams Institute's transgender questionnaire
defined transgender for this data as
"Do you identify as transgender?"

Yes

No

Prefer not to answer

Data: less than 1% identify as transgender.

US 2020 Population Gender Survey showed few Trans people.

1.6 million people (0.006 or 0. 6%)
1.3 million 0.5% adults 18+
0.3 million youths 13-17 1.4%
from Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law

Survey Question: “Do you consider yourself to be transgender?
If the answer is yes, the respondent is then asked, “Do you consider yourself to be

1. 38.5% (515,200) male not comfortable with male birth gender
2. 35.9% (480,000) females not comfortable with female birth gender
3. 25.6% (341,800) reported gender nonconforming" (non-binary, genderfluid, genderqueer...)

Degrees of Transgenderism

Reaction of a retired 80 YO educator
I really don't think those not directly involved outsiders should see red
until the gender identity temperature turns pale pink

"Physical castration" refers to the permanent surgical removal of testacies.
"Chemical castration" uses drugs to temporarily suppress sex hormones.

Need More Current Data
Surgeries > 0 Bad, But
Growth is Small and Information is Growing

Politically Correct Answer

Politically Correct
Male is Male and Female is Female and Never Can They Meet

But

Biology is Complicated
Example: Someone may be born Male with xy chromosomes made up of genes which
generate female leaning hormones
and hormone receptors may increase this gender discrepancy.

Interesting Opinions

1. Jordan Peterson
2. jk_rowling "If I belong to the sex class whose body is provably organized to produce eggs rather than sperm,
and to bear rather than beget children, I am a woman.
Also members of my sex class:
women with Swyer syndrome, though our chromosomes differ."

The specific wording of the transgender-related questions used in surveys by the Williams Institute may vary across different studies. However, a commonly used question to assess gender identity typically resembles:

"Do you identify as transgender?"
- Yes
- No
- Prefer not to answer

Trans-Pop-Update-Jun-2022.pdf

Politically Correct Answer Politically Correct Male is Male and Female is Female and Never Can They Meet
But Biology is Complicated Example: Someone may be born Male with xy chromosomes made up of genes which generate female leaning hormones and hormone receptors may increase this gender discrepancy.

Interesting Opinions
1. Jordan Peterson 2. jk_rowling "If I belong to the sex class whose body is provably organized to produce eggs rather than sperm, and to bear rather than beget children, I am a woman. Also members of my sex class: women with Swyer syndrome, though our chromosomes differ."