[LaunchedFireFly]

To be honest, I don't like the ideas of transgenders and transsexuals. It's not the natural way of life. Putting aside my feelings towards the topic, it's up to the person who wants to go through with the process. It's not my life and if that is what they enjoy, enjoy it.
The only real issue that I have with the topic is when people, who went through the process, begin to force everyone else to accept them. It's not up to the transgender to be accepted by everyone around them, just as it isn't up to everyone else if they go through with it.
Technically speaking, for the people who go through with the sex-change surgery, at this point in time it is genital mutilation since... well... you lose your genitilia and the power to reproduce. In however many year that might change, or it might not.