I find myself in an unpopular corner in any of these debates.

Can someone undergo an operation and start to identify themselves as another gender?
Can someone practice a certain race's unique cultural indulgences and identify themselves as that race?

There are multiple ways to answer these questions and whether or not they push a certain set of principles.
  • Societal Law
  • Religious Law
  • Scientific Law

Societal Law will state that so long as I am not intruding upon anyone else's rights, I can live however I please. That's both the pro and the con to living in the USA. If one bases their entire arguement on Societal Law, then theoretically, I can put on a batman costume, change my name to batman, and I will become batman.

Religious Law will go either way depending on your practice. As a conservative Christian, this would fall under the pretext of "lieing". The above cases and similar cases would not be something I could indulge in logically. If this was a Church-State, this would trump both other laws and such arguments would be a non-issue.

Scientific Law states genetics and chromosomes will govern what a person truly is. Preference doesn't play any real role. You can't exactly throw science out of the window. Me (white) and my wife (asian) can't throw science into the wind and have a black baby. Science is what it is.

I prefer to follow both religious and scientific law in these matters, personally. There is just too much stupidity in numbers (Society).