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On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:24:08 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> LGBT issues are a hot topic these days and it isn't politically correct
> not to be accepting of all sexual orientations and genders,

Or races or creeds or sizes or nationalities! It's almost gotten to
where it's not cool to hate any general group of people!

> ...but I have to wonder if they could not improve counseling and
> hormone therapy to help people come to terms with the sexual parts they
> were born with.

They are "coming to terms", but perhaps not as you'd prefer. It is
more common than ever that after counseling and hormone therapy people
are coming to terms with their preferred gender, regardless of their
organs. But perhaps you meant feigning the gender that their organs
would imply.

> I am amazed that a guy would have his parts cut off and undergo hormone
> therapy to become a woman, usually an ugly one, and then have
> relationships with women.

If an accident had you losing your member, do you think you'd begin
loving men? Gender is one thing and biological sexual assignment is
another. They don't always correlate in tidy predictable categories,
and never have. In any case a majority of that group currently called
"transgender" are more frequently choosing to retain their organs as is.

Regarding "beauty"; that isn't really what defines "success" as a
woman, though society sure tells us that often enough. If "ugly women"
should be men, there could be many millions of women that would have to
convert to men, depending on the societal fashion du jour. An
astounding number of adolescent girls think they aren't pretty, or are
even ugly, unfortunately. That's what 16 years of indoctrination get
you.

> It seems like a hell of an ordeal to go through to become a *******.
> I feel sorry for them that they are so terribly confused.

Their confusion and discomfort predominantly stems from a lack of
acceptance by others, rather than an inability for self-acceptance.
Much of their discomfort comes from discrimination, being castigated
and ostracized by family, church, work, etc. That's where the misery
lays--a loss of enclusion in family and community.