I hate to get involved in yet another forum but I will say this. Even I do not completely understand the transgendered issue. There is a part of me that struggles with wrapping my brain around it to be quite honest. I suppose the fact that I have not experienced this kind of feeling means that I likely will never truly understand it.

I think my main problem with the transgendered issue is the fact that it usually leads to mutilation of the individuals genitals via sex reassignment surgery. Something about that seems beyond what God would want His children to go through. On the other hand, I have been homosexual since as far back as I can remember and get extremely frustrated when people suggest that it's a choice and judge me out of fear or lack of understanding.

It is for this reason that I am open to at least hearing what the transgendered community has to say about their "disorder." Part of me thinks that it is an extreme reaction to an underlying homosexual orientation and that with proper therapy the transgendered individual could learn to live as they are with the genitalia they were born with. I'll have to try and catch the 20/20 episode tonight.

I would like to respond to Rhoni’s comment about this being some kind of homosexual agenda. I can tell you as an open homosexual who is very much involved with both the political and religious aspects surrounding homosexuality that the “homosexuality community” is not conspiring against the straight community in any way shape or form. The community certainly is not creating this sort of transgendered issue with children as some sort of evil conspiracy.