An Interesting Theory?

This morning I wrote about our purpose in life and did God make a mistake; well here is another interesting theory of why there are trans-people…

Transgender Showed Evolutionary Benefits in Ancestral Societies
Time: Health & Family
By Alexandra Sifferlin
Oct. 04, 2013

VanderLaan [a researcher at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada]and his colleagues studied 146 non-transgendered societies and 46 transgender societies in both current and older hunter-gatherer societies, and found that transgender men were considered useful to their communities as extra help in supporting the family, whether by maintaining households or by contributing to the raising of children. Those benefits provided an evolutionary advantage to the societies in which they belonged, allowing them to survive and remain healthy, and that in turn provided the opportunity for transgender attributes to continue into future generations, despite the fact that many transgender males did not have biological children of their own. Not surprisingly, this effect was strongest in communities in which both male and female contributions to the health of a family — in the form of emotional, social as well as financial and political support — were considered equally important. In these communities, discrimination against homosexual activity was rare, the authors report.

Here in North America trans-people were often called “Two Sprite” by the First People and were often people look to for their wisdom.
I think in modern society that this is less true because our families are more distant and can be spread out across the country, aunts and uncles are less influential in some families.