Carlton Supporters Club

I feel bad for his family, but this media narrative of him being a 'lovable larrakin with a heart of gold' is sickening. He had a long history of domestic violence charges, stalking and harassing women as well as recent theft and fraud charges. By all accounts he was starting to turn himself around, but I can't stand people who re-write history as soon as someone dies.

The hay has been cut ... and no shenanigans 

The bloke who is going to cut my hay is named Kuc but it’s pronounced Kutz ?

There was a doctor in the small town I grew up in called Dr De'Ath. Quite posh he was.

He's a figment of my imagination Prof. Rod doesn't have a brother called Roland as far as I know, but he should have done. 
A guy I once worked with was called Tom Bowler - this time a true story.

I had a work colleague who claimed that he had a crazy uncle on his mother's side, you know the one every family has,  called Richard Harden.   Now he claimed that uncle Richard was in the military and soon  wanted to retire from senior ranks.  Apparently, above a certain rank one retains the rank moniker into civilian life.   Thus he intended to retire as Major Richard Harden.   I have not been able to verify this but if true, a life time went into setting this one up.

There was a bloke by that name who was big in the fitness/gym industry in the 1960s.  I remember a girlfriend trying to get me to say his name in front of her parents (her dad was a hulking great cop) and I managed to spit out Mike ... ale Hunt ?

I'll be different and back the club and Hammer in rather than s h i t can the poor kent before he's even walked in the door.

Yes, but not my point.

If people can physically have both bits.
Is it not plausible that they could mentally be both as well? Or opposite.

I would have thought that being comfortable in your own body is part of your identity, and not through hormone therapies or plastic surgery.  We have been made the way we are.  We feel what are human emotions, not male or female, and no matter how much we fight against our body's biology, how we identify, is largely subjective.

They were born in the skin they were born in for a purpose.  That purpose is to accept oneself and their imperfections and not simply shed one social construct for another.

FWIW, here is the definition of a male, and here is the definition of a female according to the oxford dictionary:

Male: adjective

    1. Of or denoting the sex that produces gametes, especially spermatozoa, with which a female may be fertilized or inseminated to produce offspring.
    ‘male children’

    1.1 Relating to or characteristic of men or male animals.
    ‘a deep male voice’

1.2 (of a plant or flower) bearing stamens but lacking functional pistils.
1.3 (of a fitting or part of machinery) manufactured to fit inside a corresponding female part.
‘the valve has standard half-inch threaded male ends’


Female:
adjective

    1. Of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes.
    ‘a herd of female deer’

    1.1 Relating to or characteristic of women or female animals.
    ‘a female audience’
    ‘female names’

1.2 (of a plant or flower) having a pistil but no stamens.
1.3 (of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.) manufactured hollow so that a corresponding male part can be inserted.


For bonus points:

Transgender: adjective

    Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex.


Identity:

noun

    1. The fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
    ‘he knows the identity of the bombers’
    mass noun ‘she believes she is the victim of mistaken identity’

    1.1 The characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is.
    ‘he wanted to develop a more distinctive Scottish Tory identity’

1.2 as modifier (of an object) serving to establish who the holder, owner, or wearer is by bearing their name and often other details such as a signature or photograph.
‘an identity card’

2. A close similarity or affinity.
‘an identity between the company's own interests and those of the local community’

3. Mathematics
A transformation that leaves an object unchanged.

    3.1 An element of a set which, if combined with another element by a specified binary operation, leaves that element unchanged.

4.Mathematics
The equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1.



To answer your question about Hannah being my child (not my daughter), I would encourage Hannah not to travel down a road that argues with the unchangeable.  Some people's unchangeable varies.  Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Disorder, Cancer, down syndrome, asthbergers, asthma and the one recurring theme I see in the world, is that these people only find happiness when they stop fighting against their human nature and find a way to roll with the punches.  There is a liberation that comes from accepting that you cannot change the unchangeable but make the most of it and in the case of illness, fight against it until it kills you. 

This transgenderism is simply another social construct.