I personally think Obama is going to far with this. Change needs to come gradually. Yes, Americans need to become more tolerant in what they believe about men and women because science is utterly destroying the old stereotypes. Males are not necessary masculine and females are not necessarily feminine. Roles that society assigns to a person based on their sex simply doesn't fit a large percent of the population today.
What if change regarding this question ought not come AT ALL? Not everyone is of the opinion that change change change change is always a good thing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
And here's another thing. Why not instead of attacking a person with delusions or utter rejection of their sex with a surgeon's knife, we just simply counsel them and their peers in school to allow a wide range of expression within their sex. You should be attacking rigid sterotypes, not patients!
And something most ironic of all...the people who hold the most rigid sterotypes of "what a man is" or "what a woman is" are transgenders themselves! Hello? "There's your sign". That's the key to their mental issues right there. Ever notice how ridiculous of a sterotype "trannies" try to portray when play-acting the other gender? I've seen a few of the pictures here. The gals who pretend they're men don't just go for the beer belly, man boobs and 5 O'clock shadow like most dudes have.. No. They go for the SUPER MUSCLED OUT BODY BUILDER look. The dudes who pretend they're women? Big makeup. Big hair. Slinky clothes, just everything overdone to the nth degree of their perception of the super-female sterotype.
I half think it's for the attention. The other half of me thinks they're just insane; such damaged goods from childhood. Either way the solution isn't drugging or surgery or forcing the rest of us to enable them as a matter of law. The solution is for the APA to stop threatening psychiatrists and counselors if they dare to suggest that the person is merely delusional and needs tons of therapy. The urge and the push from the LGBT cult APA (and from the doctors making $$ off this illegal practice) is to conform or be cast out. You want the root of the weed? There it is right there.