I as a toddler/young boy, who was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused by my mother, and other adults, and my mother always informing me she only desired to have daughter's, took it as a total rejection of me being born as a boy. Well to be accepted and loved by my mother, I started to wish and desire to "become" a girl. So I started dressing up, playing with my girl cousins dolls, playing house all in the mental attitude to reject my sex. A young child does what it must do to be loved and accepted. You see due to my mother's father and his sexual and physical abuse of his daughter's my mother truly hated men, she was in and out of Lesbianism during my child and adulthood life. I can understand why she felt this, but as a very young child, I did not have the emotional and mental capacity on how to deal with this rejection and abuse, so I always desired to "create" the different me. I in my early 20's started to see a doctor about having a sex change, but I never completely sought it out, and I thank the Lord for that!
While living in the gay lifestyle, I dressed up as a women, had many friends who were drag queens, and a couple who were transitioning for their sex change, this was all in the early 70's. Yes, as you put it "their ilk", is truly a very sad, and perverted mindset, however many that I knew suffered greatly from their family life, many suffered sexual abuse.
So I can understand their terrible confusion, and rejection of self, and they must be treated as the Lord treated any sinner! He came not to condemn, but to save.......during my life as a believer I have had many opportunities to proclaim the Changing Power of the Lord in my life, and inform them it is sin, but I must approach them with the wisdom of the Lord, and with patient waiting for the Lord's timing when to approach and testify. Jesus was friends to sinner's, for the sick are in the greatest need of being healed.
Mat_9:12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
And these poor souls, are as I once was.
So I pray that all men, who can not relate, ask the Lord to give them understanding and to love all who are lost. I know what I suffered at the hands of "religious persons", I was raised a Baptist, and suffered much from the hands of the children of so-called Christian parents. I was bullied, once during "Baptist boys camp", I was attacked and stripped naked in the midst of the woods, crying and desiring to be dead, the humiliation, the confusion, and the degradation of it, ruined my whole weekend, so I separated myself, and hid within my built up emotional vault to protect myself from further rejections. You see I could not understand why I was so hated and rejected of kids and certain family member's. It just added to my depressed life and sorrow.
May the Lord bless you......