@skedarwarrior @cstross
You find it unsettling because you have it backwards. Nobody wants to be trans.

You list yourself as christian, so I'll use the word "soul", where I would otherwise use other terminology, because that might work better in your world view.

A class mate of mine had a sister who was born with six fingers on each hand. She had surgery to remove the extra fingers, likely before she even remembers. That's just how nature works. Sometimes people grow body parts that are not meant to be there.

Now let's imagine a god-given perfect soul. A female soul. Unfortunately, there is an imperfection in how her body grows. Just like my classmate's sister grew a couple of extra fingers, this poor girl grows a penis.

Why shouldn't we fix that the same way they did with my classmate's sister's extra fingers?

But instead, bigots insist that when it comes to genitals (their favorite subject), nature must be obeyed, and the god-given soul must be tortured into conforming to a freak accident of nature.

Does this help understanding how the world looks from our side? To make it less unsettling?