Intersexuality

Does an intersexuality need treatment? Based off of the video, Multiple Genders: Mind and Body in Conflict, some people do think that it does. Personally, I don't think that it does, people should not be forced to be placed into a category. In the video, one male liked to dress up as a female, but he stated he was married and did not want to have the sex change surgery. When people have their mind set on something, especially something as huge as dressing up as a female or vice versa, or even going as far as actually changing sexes, there would be no treatment in the world that would change their mind. Why would we want to change their mind anyways? Like I stated in my last blog, why are we so concerned with everyone else's life, and care so much about what other people do, when really, why? I think we should just all mind our own business and worry about what we do.

But really, what kind of treatment would be given to someone who is struggling with intersexuality? Really the only treatment that I can think of is brainwashing. To tell someone that something is wrong with them because they feel misplaced in their own body, or how wrong it is to be with someone of the same sex, and that man and woman are meant to be together. It's all brainwashing and so untrue. No it's not wrong to feel misplaced in your own body, you really can't help what you feel inside and no matter how hard you try you can never change the way you feel. Also it is not wrong to be with someone of the same sex, it's really like, who are we to tell someone who they can and cannot love? It's not our place to tell people what is morally correct and incorrect. The whole "man and woman should be together" is usually stated after "the bible says" Personally, i wouldn't live my life based off what a book tells me to, but most people are different.

In the video the arguments were usually just about what is morally correct, and that it is better for your children for you to stay your actual sex. My perspective on children with gay parents, is that if children truly love their parents, then their love should be unconditional. It doesn't matter what society thinks of you, that shouldn't have an effect on how you love someone. Heterosexual parents are no different that inter-sex parents or homosexual parents or anything else. Love isn't intertwined with gender, love is something completely different, and if people are looked down upon for truly loving somebody (significant other, kids, etc)...it is just wrong on so many different levels.

The only thing that I see that could be a problem with inter-sex couples is reproducing, biologically, man and woman are supposed to be together (just based off of reproducing) but other than that I don't see a problem whatsoever. Inter-sex couples have found their way of truly finding love and making a family (adoption etc) and for that we should support and be happy about that.

Multiple Genders

I decided to do my blog on the debate at the end of the Multiple Genders video. David Holloway was a pastor, and a strong believer in God. His response for everything was "well the bible states this" or "the bible states that." I'm sorry but the bible does not need to control our lives. It's a great thing to be religious, I don't have anything against that, but when you live your whole life by the way that the bible tells you to, then I see a problem. I don't think there is anything wrong whatsoever with multiple genders. Though I have not experienced anything near that, I can understand that some people just don't feel like their placed in the right body. People can't help that they feel that way, just like I can't help, as a female, that I am physically attracted to males. I was just born that way. I think David Holloway was very very closed-minded and extremely ignorant. I was shocked on his comment on "making healthy bodies deformed," who would say something like that? Especially when that couple (who was thinking about making a baby), was sitting right in front of him! They were probably feeling extremely hurt and offended. I mean, why does it even matter what OTHER people do with their lives? If you don't agree with how someone is or what they do then you don't agree. I don't see why we are so concerned with what other people do. Shouldn't we focus more on more important issues like starving kids in Africa? Or the war going on in Iraq? That's what really matters, isn't it?

I liked the comment when (I believe it was Stephen Wittle) he talked about how plastic surgery is accepted but multiple genders is not. It's funny because it's so true! People can go out and have plastic surgery and change the way the look, because they DON'T LIKE THE WAY THE LOOK, and it is accepted by society. The reason why a multiple gendered person wants to change sexes is for the same reason, they don't like the way they look. So they get plastic surgery, just like heterosexuals, to change the way they look. But of course, even though it is the same procedure, the person who is changing sexes is looked down upon by society while the person who is getting nose jobs and breast implants is accepted.

It makes me sad that people can't be who they truly are and who they want to be. Like I stated before, I've never experienced anything near feeling misplaced in my body but I can sympathize for those who do. Hopefully one day though we will accept people for whom they are and focus on more important issues. With our progression, hopefully it won’t be much longer. The people who are multiple gendered or homosexual just need to keep staying strong, like they’ve been doing their whole life and just wait for our world to change.