I don't see anything manifestly immoral about transgendered people. Dressing like the opposite sex or having a sex change operation is just a personal choice. So why should we limit the civil rights of people who make this choice?

The cool thing about being human is that we are all individuals with different ways of living our own lives.

You see, some people can decide that they want to change their sex while other people can decide to be ignorant bigots who hate on people who are too different from them.

If you have a personal problem with what a person does with himself or her must be kept to oneself. But, the fact is that, despite that you ought not to forget that every human ought to be treated appropriately and equally!

I don't think you should have used the word "respect" . that is something earned on the individual level. I think all people, no matter what they are, deserve their basic rights. Wearing a dress while having balls shouldn't have any effect on that. Supporting gays and lesbians but not transgenders is nothing short of hypocrisy from our oh so successful president(vomit)

A person should feel comfortable and happy in their own body. If their body makes them uncomfortable because they feel in the depths of their heart that they should be of the opposite sex, then by all means they should be able to change their body and should have the same rights as any individual regardless.

You certainly don't have to respect transgender people. But you really should. I often say that although I am opinionated and have a voice and my opinions might be offensive, it is never my intention to deprive somebody of their happiness. I feel that a transgendered person deserves respect regardless of how icky it makes someone else feel to think that they were once a member of a different sex.

I actually thought about this before. (I have a storyteller’s imagination, very vivid)

I imagined meeting an absolutely amazing girl, we’ll call her Ashley, and she was beautiful both in appearance and personality, EVERYTHING I wanted in a girl and more. I imagined falling deeply in love with her all without the need for sexual intimacy; it was true love, lacking lust.

Far into the relationship, I imagined expressing a desire to make love and being met with my one true love crying in my arms and even breaking up with me. Confused, I stopped at nothing to prove my worth and managed to win her back although I never truly lost her heart.

It was then that Ashley gathered enough willpower to tell me a secret that she held with such reserve that she would rather take it to the grave, but she didn’t. Out of love, she felt she needed to tell me, she felt that she owed it to me.

She told me that she was born male, and that although she looked like a female on the outside, her physiology was that of a boy. I was shocked to say the least… open-mouthed and wide eyed, I just looked at her while tears welled up in my eyes. Confusion, hate, and betrayal mixed with emotions of my resounding love and passion I felt for all those months I was with her. With him.

With a lump in her throat and her chest in painful anguish at the sight of my reaction, Ashley could do nothing but crouch into a ball on the floor and cry her eyes out. She felt lost and on her own now, without hope and without love.

I couldn’t help but feel empathy for her, I saw a helpless girl on the floor, this was my darling, the one I personally felt that I could spend an eternity with, lying there desperate and alone… I reached down and lifted her to her feet, then lifted her chin to look in her eyes.

“Shhh, hey hey, its ok, it’ll be alright.” I said as I held her face in my hands and wiped a tear from her cheek with my thumb. “Listen Ashley, look at me, are you a girl or a boy?”

She looked at me with a half evil eye and half miserable expression knowing the truth to that question. “I-I was born a –“

“No, that’s not what I asked Ashley, forget everything else… Are you a girl or a boy?”

Her eyes studied me briefly, confused. “I’m a girl; it’s what I feel in my heart.”

“Ok, than you’re a girl… and nothing else matters, it’s what you feel in your heart and… it’s what I feel, in mine.” My eyes glistened as if I would cry myself. I realized that moment that there was no one else I would rather be with and no one else who made me feel the way Ashley did. “Ashley, I love you and there-“

She quickly wraps her arms around me and I return the embrace, she then looks at me, hesitates slightly, and we kiss. –end

I realize that there is fact and fiction, there are truths and untruths. But this is the only fucking life that we get. Have mercy on those that are not comfortable in their own bodies.

C.S. Lewis said “You do not have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body”

It is good to have opinions, but it is wrong when someone's opinion can restrict someone else's basic human right. People should learn to respect people who are different from them, even if it's against their religion.

The President supports the whole LGBT Community and he expressed his support in 2015 when the Supreme Court legalized Gay Marriage.