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My experience talking to a few trans aquantences about their transness all eventually focus down to something like:

>"I'm MtF because I feel like I'm a woman."
>"Could you define what feeling like a woman is? Is it the body, clothes, behavior, and/or something else?"
>"No, it's none of those things. I'm not sure I can define what it is, except I am one and am happier this way."

Each one took a long time to reach that point, of course.

Even though I'm not religious myself, I think there might be better justifications for the existence of god than a trans person's justifications for why they're a different gender. I've had some decent conversations with both, but they eventually both seemed to end at:

>"God exists because I can feel him in my soul. My life was miserable until I found him."
and
>"I am a woman because I feel like one inside. My life was miserable until I said I was one."
Arguments that strengthen one ("My feelings make it true!") strengthens the other. Arguments that weaken one ("You're sure you weren't depressed by other things, and latched onto a comforting possibility of salvation with a welcoming community to encourage it?") weakens the other.

That's my view, at least until I learn better.

I do think it's silly to believe I've reached ultimate truth at any point in life.