Well, ever hear of transexuals? They are biologically one sex, but mentally/emotionally they are the other. It's pretty unpleasant, especially if you live somewhere the majority of people would be quite glad to lynch you if they knew (I have a good friend in this situation u.u). Biologically he's straight, but emotionally/mentally she's homosexual.

I wasn't trying to say abortion is better. Frankly I'm not a fan of that either, but it's all up to the individual, I suppose, as there are always too many circumstances to consider. The way I phrased it was rather callous though, sorry. I was merely pointing out that these are actually rather different issues, as the one has very definite results (no child), whereas the other, assuming it did anything or even worked as it would be intended to, has a very high risk of screwing up the child quite a bit in ways unknown.

Well, in that case it's their gender role that they want to change, not their orientation. The sex they're attracted to stays the same. I don't really know of anyone who grew up feeling that they were attracted to the wrong sex.

Wait, so he can actually use the line "I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body"?

I think maybe he'd find out that being a woman might not be cool with the women he's attracted to.

Like this girl I know, she insists that everyone use the masculine form of her name and she's lesbian, but her partner said that she couldn't be physically attracted to her if she went through with the FTM procedure. Which, ultimately, I think would make this girl's life more difficult in the long run, because most heterosexual females I think wouldn't deal with that and lesbians aren't attracted to men.