Transgender Personal Trainer Builds Strength and Community – NBC News

Read article - Quotes Leslie Henderson, senior associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean for diversity and inclusion, and professor of physiology and neurobiology and of biochemistry, about how transgenderism isn't an innate problem, it's an innate disposition. "There is good evidence that there is a fundamental biological basis to gender identity. We may not understand all the factors, but we do know there are critical periods in development right around birth when hormones can permanently change the brain: sexual orientation and gender identity may be established in those early times," says Henderson.