Being transgender is not normal

You said "What I meant was that chopping off one of your genitals and adding another one" That's a strawman. Transgenderism has nothing to do with gender confirmation surgeries. While I personally don't like those surgeries, The fact is that it is their body and they can do what they want with it if they're adults. Same goes for circumcision, IF they're adults. You said " Thinking you are different gender is different than believing in god, Being a movie actor, And wearing a costume. " They're not congruent, But they're analogous because they're all examples of people both doing something that seems irrational to other people and being sane at the same time. If you want to make transgenderism an illness because it's not "normal" then you have to make all abnormal behaviors mental illnesses. That's why your argument ultimately fails. You said "Saying that you are a gender you're not is not normal nor true" You can't prove it's not normal unless you're a mind reader and it doesn't matter if it's true or not. At the most, It would only make them a liar. You can't argue for societal norms in this case, Because we're not talking about an observable behavior. We're talking about the way people feel and you cannot develop a norm for feelings, Because to do so you would have to prove what the whole world feels and you can't do that. You said "Also, Let"s not put religion into this, Because I"m Christian, And this isn"t a debate about god" I was using it as an analogy, Which is my right. I have a standing policy that I don't tell people what kind of arguments they can present and they can't tell me either. If you think a comment I make is fallacious, Then disprove the logic in it. But I refuse to be told what kind of evidence that I'm allowed to present. I made no comment about Christianity that was not directly related to my argument. I simply stated that Christians don't get called insane for their irrational beliefs. That's a fact. So now that I've addressed your main points. I would like to revisit the crux of my argument. Which is: 1) Norms cannot be established for thoughts and feelings. 2) Thoughts and Feelings do not make you mentally ill. 1) In order to say that something is normal, There must be a norm to check it against. Without such a norm, No behavior can be quantified in this manner. Therefore, You must establish a societal norm in contrast to transgenderism to claim it's supposed abnormality. You cannot use behavior as a norm, Because transgenderism is not necessarily attributed to any behavior. Rather, It's the way you think and feel about your gender. It doesn't matter if it's true or not. We could say that it used to be normal that the earth was flat, But the earth is not flat. This logic shows that truth is irrelevant to the normality of something. 2) This point comes up because you have conflate normality with sanity. Now you can separate them if you want, But I'm addressing both just in case you try to pull a fast one. So we have to ask ourselves, What makes you mentally ill? Generally speaking, It's when your state of mind causes you to cause harm to those around you. Trans people are not causing anyone any harm, So you can't say they're mentally ill on that grounds. You can't say that they harm themselves, Because the surgeries they get are legally recognized and no different than a circumcision. You can't say that the suicides make them mentally ill because of transgenderism, Because the same doctors that you appeal to say that the suicides are caused either by depression or body dysphoria and neither of those things are transgenderism. The only standard that you have really presented thus far is the fact that they don't comport with the subjective societal norm that you have falsely posited. So there is no reason to consider them mentally ill. I'm also suspicious about your claims that doctors agree with you. Do you have data? Because as far as I know, They attribute the mental illness to body dysphoria, Which is not transgenderism. "I would like to respond, But I'm still waiting to hear the argument" -- Christopher Hitchens.