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An opinion piece in the New York Times last week was titled “America is Being Consumed by a Moral Panic over Trans People.” If the ramifications of this weren’t so cruel, I would be tempted to laugh.

What is so scary about people who identify as transgender? All that means is that their sex chosen for them at birth does not match their gender now that they are old enough to be able to say/demonstrate what their gender is. Sexual anatomy and gender may not agree. One comes from fetal development of body parts, and the other comes from the formation of the frontal lobe of the brain. Ki...