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This is about correcting something that is wrong not slapping some mythical fairy tale creator in the face. By your logic repairing a child's cleft palate, spina bifida repair or correcting any of a multitude of birth defects is going against how they were "made by their creator." So should we just go back to letting these things go unchecked or use our medical and scientific advances to fix them?
There have been brain scan studies of transgender persons done that show they have the brain structures of the gender they know themselves to be but weren't necessarily born. Current theory is that there is a hormone imbalance while the fetus is developing in the womb that causes the brain to develop as one gender and the body to develop as the other.
Gender is not as cut and dried as some would have you believe. There exist a large variety of conditions, both overt and very subtle, that cause people not to fit into a binary gender. Take for instance the case of middle distance runner Caster Semenya in 2009. This was a girl that grew up in an impoverished South African village but became a very accomplished runner. That is until someone questioned if she was cheating or even *gasp* a woman at all. This 18 year old was forced to undergo a series of very invasive gender confirmation tests. After all was said and done she found out something about herself that she never knew, she did not have a uterus and she had internal testes as well as a vagina and breasts. So if she attempts to undergo corrective surgery to remove the internal testes is that going against how she was made?
I wouldn't wish the transgender condition on anyone because I know how tough it was growing up in small town Ohio like this. Surrounded by bible thumping, right wing, gun loving hypocritical sunday christians. Trying to find a therapist and physician versed in the care and treatment of transgender people seemed nigh impossible at one time and finally necessitated travel to the big city. It takes most people many years of therapy and hormone treatment before they can finally live as the person they've always known themselves to be on the inside. Heck, it's a couple years before a therapist will sign you off to have surgery.
Undertaking gender transition is not some frivolous undertaking as there are many hurdles and heartaches involved. Most of us lose a lot of family members in the process because they can't adapt or understand the condition. For a lot of transgender people it basically comes down to living their life in an authentic fashion to be who they are or not living at all.
Children seem to take gender transition the easiest of all because they don't have nearly as many preconceived ideas about people. Children aren't born prejudiced, they learn it from the adults around them. Children, especially the teens that may be struggling, need to know that things do get better and they can be the person they know themselves to be on the inside. Unfortunately due to discrimination around them the suicide attempt rate for transgender individuals is around 35% according to a study released earlier this year by the Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The suicide attempt rate for the normal population is only around 1.6%.
Children and adults both need to be educated that this is not some deviant condition but just one of a multitude of birth defects that can be bettered through current medical advances.
http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ss...tary_foll.html
There have been brain scan studies of transgender persons done that show they have the brain structures of the gender they know themselves to be but weren't necessarily born. Current theory is that there is a hormone imbalance while the fetus is developing in the womb that causes the brain to develop as one gender and the body to develop as the other.
Gender is not as cut and dried as some would have you believe. There exist a large variety of conditions, both overt and very subtle, that cause people not to fit into a binary gender. Take for instance the case of middle distance runner Caster Semenya in 2009. This was a girl that grew up in an impoverished South African village but became a very accomplished runner. That is until someone questioned if she was cheating or even *gasp* a woman at all. This 18 year old was forced to undergo a series of very invasive gender confirmation tests. After all was said and done she found out something about herself that she never knew, she did not have a uterus and she had internal testes as well as a vagina and breasts. So if she attempts to undergo corrective surgery to remove the internal testes is that going against how she was made?
I wouldn't wish the transgender condition on anyone because I know how tough it was growing up in small town Ohio like this. Surrounded by bible thumping, right wing, gun loving hypocritical sunday christians. Trying to find a therapist and physician versed in the care and treatment of transgender people seemed nigh impossible at one time and finally necessitated travel to the big city. It takes most people many years of therapy and hormone treatment before they can finally live as the person they've always known themselves to be on the inside. Heck, it's a couple years before a therapist will sign you off to have surgery.
Undertaking gender transition is not some frivolous undertaking as there are many hurdles and heartaches involved. Most of us lose a lot of family members in the process because they can't adapt or understand the condition. For a lot of transgender people it basically comes down to living their life in an authentic fashion to be who they are or not living at all.
Children seem to take gender transition the easiest of all because they don't have nearly as many preconceived ideas about people. Children aren't born prejudiced, they learn it from the adults around them. Children, especially the teens that may be struggling, need to know that things do get better and they can be the person they know themselves to be on the inside. Unfortunately due to discrimination around them the suicide attempt rate for transgender individuals is around 35% according to a study released earlier this year by the Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The suicide attempt rate for the normal population is only around 1.6%.
Children and adults both need to be educated that this is not some deviant condition but just one of a multitude of birth defects that can be bettered through current medical advances.
http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ss...tary_foll.html
did you see the video of a transgender chick get her ass kicked at mcdonalds recently. she couldn't have acted more feminine. and you know men don't get their asses by women. but, i would think transgender ppl know pretty soon who they are. i mean, you don't just don't wake up on day and say i feel a man or woman.
moral of the story is: don't give your kids weird names like Chastity. they'll just grow up transgendered because of it!.. what kind of name is Chaz? im not sure thats better.
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