# Re: "Gender identity - is it even a debate at all?" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 26, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-gender-identity-is-it-even-a-debate-at-all/537443 "2010-04-26T19:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-gender-identity-is-it-even-a-debate-at-all/537443/9 "2010-04-27T01:05:54Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > Transgender does not include gay, and homosexuals? You didn’t say some transgendered people were gay. You confused gays with transgendered people. > [@Gender identity - is it even a debate at all?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-identity-is-it-even-a-debate-at-all/537366/26): > > It is not a sad world, just one that is not understood. I like the “woman in a male body” saying. I have talked with many homosexuals, and most will tell you that they have always felt, even as a very small child, they were in the wrong body. 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: > [@](#): > > “Transgender” does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-gender-identity-is-it-even-a-debate-at-all/537443)._