Re: "Gender identity - is it even a debate at all?"

You didn’t say some transgendered people were gay. You confused gays with transgendered people.

Gays (at least the vast majority) do not feel they were born in the wrong body. TG people do. As I said, you don’t know the difference and were on point of turning the thread into a discussion of reincarnation. From the second sentence of the (I’m guessing Wikipedia) article you quoted: