[DanaC]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

That's just a chemical inbalance in the brain.If you're physically male then you're male or vice versa.You can't change that no matter what you THINK you are.

I don't think there's any 'just'about it. If it is a chemical imbalance, it is one that occurs during fetal development. Essentially in such cases the brain of the male fetus follows a female developmental path. It isn't a chemical imbalance in the present which can be corrected through some kind of chemical re balancing, like clinical depression.

If the self is created by the brain, then the self in that case is female.

Given that science has found ways to make the body match that self, and hasn;t yet managed to find a way to make the developed brain match that body, we can either consign such people to a linguistic no man's land (;p) or accept the new designation as valid.