Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
I think you're being a pedant.
Okay, the phrase 'being born into the wrong body' can be twisted and misconstrued. Happy?
The points previously made still stand. And as we've agree, it's not a mental health issue alone.
I'm glad we agree.
I am being pedantic precisely because that term can be twisted and misconstrued, particularly by people who take things said to them literally or see everything in black and white terms. It is not a phrase I'd want to hear trotted out in front of children for instance, they may be/have any of the things we have discussed previously in this thread, but we should never encourage them through the words we choose to use to feel that their body could be anything other than their own.
In that case, you're not using that phrase in the way that the vast majority would understand it. That phrase has been used a lot in reference to people who are born physically one gender but firmly believe they are the other gender. It's a phrase that they use themselves, to describe the way they feel about their bodies.
Edit: worth noting, that some in the transgender community are moving away from the phrase. Doing a little of what I sometimes preach and self-educating a little as we go in this thread .
I agree that we should find a better way of expressing it that is based in reality rather than an idea.