Louisa wrote A person who undergoes gender reassignment goes through rigorous and lengthy psychological counselling to ensure it is exactly what they want. A person cannot help being born into a body which they do not feel comfortable in, and if after consideration (often traumatic and drawn out over years) they decide to physically be in a body which matches their psychological gender, who is Germaine Greer or anyone else for that matter to question them? Moreover, how offensive is it, for someone of her academic stature to publicly make the point that a trans person isn't the gender they choose? Why does she feel the need to be so offensive and patronising towards anyone who has made such a difficult and public life choice? Louisa. I don?t think she is being offensive, like I said she does not have problem with transgender she just stating a biological fact what really get up my nose is if you don?t have the same opinions has the majority you get the same can of abuse she getting on twitter.