Sweden - Genes behind transsexualism possibly found

[Julie Marie]

No mutations means no adaptations.  No adaptation means nature will wipe us off the planet just as it did the T-rex and trilobite.

Evolve or die off...

Chaunte

Yes, and so many can't understand that.  People want everyone to be alike and perfect, from their point of view.  If they find the gene or the process by which mind and body don't meld with gender I hope they won't play God and try to alter it or worse, as Cindi said, terminate pregnancys.  Just accept it as a natural process and allow the child to develop in a way that is most natural to him/her.

Julie

[Jessica]

Other then the karmic reprecussions to my parents, I would have preferred to have been aborted.

[tinkerbell]

Well, speaking for myself, if someone had told me that I could have transistioned in my late childhood/early teenage years, I would have been very happy with that, but that is just how I feel.

Ditto!

tinkerbell

[Casey]

It will help most of us but what if there are a few who do not have the gene?

Exactly. And the article seemed to say that longer mutated sequences increases the chance of being TS. I would hate to think that whether you were considered a good candidate for SRS depended on the length of the sequence.

I thank the scientists kindly for their research (and while you're at it, how about looking into us androgynes?) but the group that really should be putting the money into research is the Psychiatric community. (Please correct me if I've got that wrong.) Concentrate on the "is" not the "could be".