You often don't become anything 'gender' - whatever gender you have is built in. You can learn or realize that you are transgender but becoming has nothing to do with it. It's like having brown eyes or being right-handed; an innate part of who you are. However, if you see at least some forms of transgenderism as a choice, then you can choose it. That said, most are born with their gender feelings and leanings.
So you don't, at least not typically, and not in a direct manner. You don't jump up one morning going "Hey, I want to despised and hated by people everywhere, I like the idea of being a pariah just because I see myself differently than other people do, give me more of that!." It's like having blue eyes or speaking your native language or humans walking upright on 2 legs instead of on 4s: it just is. You can choose to act upon it, or you can choose to study your own feelings but you can't choose to be transgendered. You is or you ain't.
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Most people, if you ask them "are you a boy or a girl?", have 0 hesitation, they don't have to think about it, they don't even have to look down - they know it in their heart or head and instantly "I'm a ______."
A transgender person may be a person who believes their sex and/or gender are a blend (on a scale) and not the binary we are all taught is 'the truth." They may also be transsexual, a person who's brain says "I'm a ____" but their physiological sex is the opposite. Then there are those that feel they are both sexes/genders - depending on the time and situation, these are often crossdressers (aka transvestites.) There is a small population that get off on being dressed as the opposite sex - generally these are called fetishists by the CDs and TGs; they may or may not be, but trying to explain to your wife that it's not about sex, when for these few it is, is quite confusing.
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If you have to stop for even a second to think about the question "are you a boy or a girl?" it's likely you are transgender. Take time to study yourself and get in contact with others who are like you, maybe even go to a therapist to help you deal with society's problems with transgenderism (you don't have a problem, society does); if you don't hesitate, be glad you don't have to fight society to be you - you aren't TG.
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Not really. you cannot become one, it's more like something you either ARE, or you are not, however, it is possible to have very intense transgender feelings, desires and not take action on them.
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From what I understand it is possible to be transgender or have transsexualism and not realize it. Usually these people will know their whole lives that something is not exactly right and just not know what it is that isn't right. It also appears that some people have no question about not being transgender before they hit puberty and suddenly during puberty everything seems to go wrong and they then begin to feel, and continue to feel, that something is wrong or went wrong and now continues to be.
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Pearson Press has a book, called "Introduction to Psychology, Third Custom Edition" (revised 2009), which addresses sexuality, heredity, and Biology, to an extent. According to that particular book, the writers believe the consensus that individuals are born with a predisposition to gender and sexuality. Two main theories are proposed: one is that it's genetic in nature, and the other is that it's neurobiological in nature.
However, the same book indicates that heredity does not necessitate any particular choice or compulsion; and, over time, thanks to a phenomenon called "neuroplasticity", the brain will change, based on what we learn, to accommodate that information.
Several other sexual and gender-based identity theories are proposed; such as the theory of a social schema that teaches us which gender we better fit, and a certain psychosexual form of development by which we learn, at a certain age, that we are permanently either one gender, or the other. In other words, we may unconsciously accept that certain factual indications about ourselves actually mean that we are more, or less, like one gender or the other.
While the consensus is that reassignment therapies can fail, and can cause worse trauma, it would only be fair to note that certain therapies are the only ones that have been studied. Furthermore, no greater experimentation or research has been done on other alternative therapies.
Finally, WorldNetDaily has an archived article, regarding a British man who thought he was a male-to-female transsexual, and realized that he was simply sexually confused and needed counseling. While that may not be the case for every transsexual, gay person, or bisexual individual, one could argue that it could provide valuable information for further study, which may help people who feel a compulsion to these tendencies, to find a way to make a transition to "normalcy" easier to accept and become accustomed to.
Now, a person is born with transsexualism, when they actually have that condition. However, anyone can choose to be transition (with or without surgery) - just crossdress on an on-going basis and change your name. Transsexuals persons tend to hate their original genitals, want them gone, and want to blend in entirely as a full member of the corrected sex.
People don't like the transgender thing
Adopt
Become a man.
You're thinking of transgender people, not gay people. Gay people do not "become a girl" unless they are also transgender. Transgender people can be gay, straight, or anything else.For more information about the hormones that Transgender women take, click here.
You become part of the LGBTQ community, if you weren't already.
Transgender males who have not undergone surgery to remove their reproductive organs can still have a uterus and ovaries, allowing them to become pregnant through assisted reproductive technologies such as sperm donation and in vitro fertilization.
Not necessarily. He may just be a masculine boy.
Transgender = Трансгендерность (Transgendernost')
Transgender is an adjective.
Transgender Warrior was created in 2003.
Neither are transgender.
Transgender people are not made. It is something you will be born with.