Is it normal i'm weirded out by transgenderism?

I agree that not understanding doesn't equal hatred, and I'm tired of people not getting that concept. I'm not trans but I am a gay man. You don't have to understand me, you don't have to like the thought of homosexuality, or kiss my ass just to look virtuous. All you have to do is respect me, and that is enough.

With trans people though, it's a matter of brain chemistry for a lot of them. Brain scans have shown that transwomen (born male physically but transition to female) have more grey matter in the brain than other biological males, more like that of a female. Transmen (born women) also have more similar brain structures to biological males than females. The brain differences leads to a disconnect called "Gender Dysphoria", where the afflicted feels discomfort, distress or even outright shock that their body doesn't match their brain chemistry. As a result, many seek to "transition", which is going through measures to reverse their natural secondary sex characteristics and develop those of the opposite sex. This can help alleviate the gender dysphoria, especially if they're successful to a degree where they pass easily as the opposite sex.

It's probably caused by pregnancy hormone imbalances (which I also think causes homosexuality, personally).

You know how you feel completely certain that the gender you are in your head is what it is? Same goes for transgender people, with the only difference being that their gender doesn't happen to coincide with their biological sex. What's hard to understand about that?

It's because they have a mental illness. That's why they think the way they do.

You should be wary .. Their disturbed and have serious mental health issues

"I can't fathom why on earth anyone would want to be a different gender." That's it right there. That same conviction, that certainty that you wouldn't want to be anything other than your own gender -- that's exactly it. That's the reason trans people endure the pain, the humiliation, the suffering, the loss of rights, family members, jobs, housing, dignity, the violence. Nobody would voluntarily choose that. Because the choice is between all of that and living in the wrong gender. (Or, unfortunately, for far too many trans people, not having any livable choice at all.)

Normal. Transgender people are weirded out by being the gender they were born into. You are sharing their estrangement and alienation. Responding with hostility is cruel and ignorant. But weirdness begets more weirdness.

I don't think PC leftists would attack you for this. You're opening a dialog. I think it's pretty much okay to talk about things. I'm not trans myself but I imagine it's very much like the conversation you have with an identical twin and ask, "What's it like to be an identical twin?" and they respond, "What's it like not to be one?"

I don't understand it either but I'm not creeped out by it. I have a trans friend and it doesn't bother me at all.

It's a question of identity and the worth people put on identity.

Like, for me, I've always had effeminate traits but I know that i'm wholly male. To someone else, those effimante traits may blossom into something more, people can explore that and really find themselves comfortable in that mentality/lifestyle. And when you become mentally assured of something, often the emotional follows. The transgender people I've met are psychoanalytical of their identity, they feircely inhabit it. When you have that kind of conviction you can understand how someone would alter genitalia etc.

I've never understood it, the only logic I find in it tends to piss people off.

For example, I'm certain trans people are trans primarily because the opposite sex they want to imitate has better cultural and sociatal things that appeals to them, such as clothing, make up, no make up, behaviours, etc.

I'm having trouble understanding it as well.

I can somewhat get why women want to be a man; you guys are basically free in society; you don't have to worry about shelf-life, have many opportunities, and you're not judged as harshly as women are for small things like hair and clothes. On top of that, you can make friends with other guys super easily with no sexual tension in the mix. That, and no periods and shit; the list goes on. However, guys becoming women feels like drawing a target on you; not because trans people are frowned upon, but because being a woman is to live in constant worry, especially at night. It's annoying. I never once walked around at night somewhere without being scared of every shadow unless I was accompanied by a guy. Honestly, I get envious when guys tell stories of dumb shit they did when drunk or high, waking up with shit drawn on their face or on some park bench where his friends left him; but as a woman everything would end in rape/groped, or murdered (as dramatic as that sounds lol); I can't afford to let loose and have stupid fun.

Eh bits are bits.