Hello @kryzsec :)

Thank you so much for taking a few minutes of your busy schedule to read and contribute to this debate with your comment. I really respect people - like you - who are open to explore new topics; particularly when they are as controversial as this; and when they already have come across preconceptions about it such as that of your teacher! Oh my ... :/

Nowadays, it is well established that most of our features are a product of the interplay among biological, psychological and social factors. And our sexuality is one of them. For children like Camille the question that remains is: which of these factors weighed heavier in her feeling as a girl? While as for the teenagers who underwent the hypothalamic response exam it is quite clear that their biology plays a bigger role in their gender dysphoria. Each case is a different one and this is why the whole topic becomes even more delicate.

It is completely understandable why you find tricky to grasp what entails being a transgender (my brother says the same thing). But, in a nutshell, it is basically what we have discussed here : when a person's sense of self and sex/gender identity goes against that they have been assigned to when they were born. It must be a very overwhelming feeling for those who go through it. And, not only do they have to face their internal conflict but also a society that mostly holds prejudice against them. But I put society's reaction down to lack of understanding.

If more people were open-minded as you are; and first, admitted to themselves they don't fully grasp this topic; and second, had the courage to face it despite all the stigma surrounding it, there wouldn't be so much discrimination and harmful stereotyping out there towards transgenders.

So, thank you once again for your honesty and open-mind approach!
All the best to you :)