The letter, The woman in transsexuals - or is it? by Fathima Idris, has a few good points that are of major concern to those who are transgender.

The technology and scientific studies, here in the United States and abroad, confirm the existence of a multivariable distribution of male and female hormones, in a fetus' brain resulting in numerous anomalies of the humankind in nature.

As a researcher, activist and advocate in all aspects of transgender education, I have spent a good part of my life trying to figure out just what happened to me. The overwhelming desire in wanting to dress, and live full time as the opposite gender has been an extraordinarily tumultuous journey since I was seven years of age.

Skeptics concerning this incredible anomaly of nature need to further their education through continuous extensive research worldwide. Being transgender has been a part of this planet for millions of years.

When a human being who is transgender tries to exist in a society of bigots, religious fanatics, and agenda-seeking judgmental persons, their attempts at survival within these confines can be drastically devastating to mind, body, and soul.

My advice to people like the writer is to stand back, become increasingly more educated on what it is like being transsexual and then take a good, hard, intellectual look from an open-minded perspective to know that it is that is not a choice, but a biological phenomenon.