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This is a weird way to put it. The topic has been on the agenda for a long time, gender identity disorder wasn't just discovered yesterday, and there's broad consensus and best practices in the relevant parts of the medical community.

Invoking some "holistic psycho-physical" intuition to dismiss years of research and experience with transgender issues is somewhat presuming.

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I'm not trying to dismiss anything, or claiming to be anything other than a layperson. I'm trying to say that, as that layperson, I find the language we use to be very counter-intuitive, confusing, and fraught with obvious potential for conflict.

And yes, I am sure in certain circles this issue has been discussed for years, but I would say Manning's case is the first time a lot of people have thought about these issues.

I would think they'd be more offended by you saying they have a disorder than people struggling over the correct pronoun.

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