On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Gay isn't transgender though. Transgender would be being physically being > one sex, but mentally (aka how your brain is wired as opposed to mental > illnerss) being the other. Then you have hermaphrodites who are physically > both...what do you do with them? Removing parts to "force" them into one > gender or another is bad too. They had a show on Discovery health about > that a few months ago. The poor kid was totally fucked up. She was born > with both genetalia and all the accompanying sex organs and the parents, > thinking they were doing the right thing, had the male parts remove and she > was brought up as a girl. That didn't work out so well as her brain was > also wired differently... > See, now that is a completely different scenario.....and an entirely different discussion. Yes, that is a difficult situation, and I think in that situation you would have to give the child the latitude to figure out their own gender identity (with a lot of help to answer their questions along the way). Absolutely. But this story is about a child born with perfectly normal plumbing....I just don't see how it's wrong to describe to them what that plumbing is, and how it's normally supposed to work? If years later they decide they want diffe To Mo's point earlier, yes, of course it's their child and they can do whatever they want...but that doesn't mean we can't criticize them if we think they are doing their child a disservice. I'm not going to predict whether the kid will be effed up or not.....could turn out just fine, could wilt underneath the microscope his parents are putting her under. (yes, i'm having fun with gender pronouns :) I just know I'd never do this with my child, in fact I'd consider myself a negligent parent if i did this...and I can't for the life of me even follow the logic as to why anyone would think this is a good idea. But i'm trying. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338275 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
