The typical Trans mentality and their famous line have always been "I was born in the wrong body", which to that I have this to say, impossible. The brain and the body are connected, they are not separate nor do they act against each other. When we are born we are born with a clean slate, connections need to be made and the wiring according to our navigation and negotiation of our environment and world becomes formed. There are automatic and visual connections made, as well as tactile, emotional and sensory. We are either rewarded or scorned by those around us as we learn to crawl, walk then run. Who controls our brains? The brain works more like traffic than a car, no one is actually controlling it and this is all due to a complex procedure called emergence and it explains why all of these “specialized and localized” processes can give rise to what seems like a unified mind. Sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, cells, neurons, modules, the mind, and a collection of minds (a society) are all different levels of organization, with their own laws that cannot necessarily be predicted from the properties of the level below.
The unified mind we feel present emerges from the thousands of lower-level processes operating in parallel. Most of it is so automatic that we have no idea it's going on. (Not only does the mind work bottom-up but top-down processes also influence it. In other words, what you think influences what you see and hear.)
So our reactions to the world are reactionary, sensory information is fed into an explanatory module which Gazzaniga calls The Interpreter, and studying split-brain patients showed him that it resides in the left hemisphere of the brain. So because our actions seem to create a negative response to the world, we claim we are born wrong, when in fact we are not. The interpreter is receiving data from the domains that monitor the visual system, the somatosensory system, the emotions, and cognitive representations. The interpreter is only as good as the information it receives. Lesions or malfunctions in any one of these domain-monitoring systems leads to an array of peculiar neurological conditions that involve the formation of either incomplete or delusional understandings about oneself, other individuals, objects, and the surrounding environment, manifesting in what appears to be bizarre behavior. It no longer seems bizarre, however, once you understand that such behaviors are the result of the interpreter getting no, or bad, information.
The story of the multi-modular mind and the Interpreter module shows us that the brain does not have a rational “central command station” — your mind is at the mercy of what it's fed. The Interpreter is constantly weaving a story of what's going on around us, applying causal explanations to the data it's being fed; doing the best job it can with what it's got.
This is generally useful: a few thousand generations of data has honed our modules to understand the world well enough to keep us surviving and thriving. The job of the brain is to pass on our genes. But that doesn't mean that it's always making optimal decisions in the modern world.
We must realize that our brain can be fooled; it can be tricked, played with, and we won't always realize it immediately. Our Interpreter will weave a plausible story — that's it's job.
So please stop the lies and the push for people to feel sorry for you, you were not born wrong, you are simply unable to cope with who you are, and who you are is nothing more than an entitled individual who thinks life owes you something, you need to learn to live life the way you were born as, accept it, embrace it, love yourself for who you are and stop pushing this theory on people.
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