Many of the responses here are the reason why those who don't identify as M/F experience mental health issues. If people treated you that way, for something you have no control over, you'd develop the same types of mental illnesses. From remarkable studies in the last decade, we now have biological evidence (i.e., neurological, genetic, etc.) that demonstrates clearly that (a) biological sex and gender identity are separate things, and why, (b) the developmental processes (starting in fetal development) that cause biological sex, gender identity, and differences from the normal M/F in gender identity, and why, and (c) that less than 1% of the population biologically develop into something other than M/F in the gender identity spectrum, and why. We also now know that mental illness doesn't cause gender identity; but rather, gender identity causes mental illness mostly because of the way our society deals with it. These are the reasons forms in doctor's offices and other places are finally asking about these distinctions...because we now know that they have important physical and psychological health considerations. Open your minds and hearts and do some reading about this evidence...we have been wrong about this for a long time now.
Well thanks for the support to all of us who identify as Sweet Pickles, we need the help many have been stuffed in jars for far to long.
I ask for , no I DEMAND support for the Sweet Pickle people, now who is going to say I am not a Sweet Pickle, studies show it was chosen in the womb...... I think it was Mom's odd cravings.
I wonder if I have a mental illness or just not Pickled properly?
Now real question, in the last decade when these studies were done, to show all this mess is real, have the numbers of confused folks always been this high, or is a crap load of it just a fad for no other reason ?