# What Trans Would You Like To Be? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 14, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-trans-would-you-like-to-be/759918 "2016-07-14T20:14:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 54
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-trans-would-you-like-to-be/759918/54 "2016-07-15T21:05:38Z")
I thought I would take a look at the illustrious OP’s history to see if this was all a big misunderstanding. I found this: > [@On the Topic of Transgenders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-transgenders/753980/304): > > If I was born feeling that I was really a dog inside, then had plastic surgery which gave me a doggie looking snout and had hair transplanted all over my body and I started moving around on 4 legs and said “woof - woof”… would you honestly believe I was really now a dog? I wouldn’t for one minute think that. I would think this is a PERSON who wants to pretend they are a dog. Genetically, they are still a person and can never be a dog. They can only pretend. So just because a man has plastic surgery to look anatomically like a woman, dresses like a woman and uses a woman’s restroom, does not in my mind alter the fact that genetically they are men. And the same holds true for women pretending to be men. I don’t care to what extents they go through in trying to achieve the illusion they are of the opposite sex. They will always be whatever sex they were born. Gosh, he’s just so misunderstood. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-trans-would-you-like-to-be/759918)._