# Trans gender question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trans-gender-question/774219>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 8, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trans-gender-question/774219 "2016-12-08T17:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trans-gender-question/774219/61 "2016-12-19T04:19:41Z")

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> Quoth **Una** :
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> The two are different, and that is the problem. Like Jragon says, there are these folks who call themselves transgender and try to wrap themselves in the attention and sympathy, while experiencing no actual dysphoria or distress, and not transitioning in real life. Their “outness” is thus situational and entirely to their benefit - they can tell people they’re “transgender” when it will benefit them, and keep it quiet when it won’t. And they experience no distress in having to hide.

Well, yes, obviously there are some folks who are just saying it to get attention, but it seems to me that there are likely to also be some folks for whom that’s sincerely just how they feel. And it is, I suppose, a convenient configuration to have, but that doesn’t mean that they chose to be that way just because it’s convenient. I mean, being a heterosexual cisgender right-handed white male is also pretty convenient for me, but I never chose any of that, either.

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