But I don't think it's something that would ever be simple enough to fix just like that. It would mean really altering your brain.
Surely changing the exterior (the "shell") makes more sense than fucking around with the brain
Also I would more expect it to be that a trans person was "meant" to be the sex they identify as, rather than "meant" to identify as the sex they are
That is what I was trying to address in the post that sent GA into a fit.
The "shell", as you call it, developed first. It was decided before there was any consciousness or indeed a brain. Therefore it makes more sense, logically, that the set of chromosomes is what nature meant to do rather than whatever it is that happened with the brain's wiring some time after that.
Logically, then, it makes more sense to correct that wiring problem. It would probably be far less intrusive, procedurally speaking, than actually creating a specimen of the others sex, capable of everything that person would want.
And do note that in addition to changing the "shell" (in my mind that is a bit too superficial because the biological functions go further than that) you would have to change the whole society and that, as we already know, is hardest of all because bigotry and hatred is everywhere.
BW, I would argue the same re autism.
And finally, I have no idea how easy or hard it would be to make such an alteration in the brain. I do know that correctable brain damage, cancer, etc, can easily and dramatically change one's personality, and I also know that those things can often be fixed.
* odeon is now awaiting the inevitable hissy fit from GA