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.
Your post stands true even today, many people are made to feel wrong for these feelings that they most of the times cannot even control themselves. Brainwashing is a term that you used very well because that is the exact process that happens. When a person's emotions are not "normal" the person begins to feel shameful because they think they should be able to control when they just happen naturally. It is just like saying that love is a wrong emotion to feel. Not any one person can judge whether it is or not. I also took notice that we have similar views on the idea of homosexual parenting or any other type of parenting for that matter. The idea of love plays a crucial role and that can pretty much determine where and how far the child will go. The gender of the parent has nothing to do with it. As I mentioned in my own post for the third week, it is just the same as parents who are alcoholic, abusive, neglectful etc. Why must people focus on the fact that there are parents who are transgender, bisexual or even intersexual when there are true dangerous ways of raising a child? Should we forget that these types of problems exist because they do not affect them? These petty differences in gender do not amount to the types of issues that the other types of parents bring upon their children.
ReplyDeleteYou would think that all people with kids are parents but no they are not. Just like you said gay or intersexual should be able to love and raise a kid. I don’t think I fully agree only because along with two men or two women raising a baby comes with basic torment from the public as well as the kids they go to school with. Cyber bulling is a new reason why kids take their life. Just last week some 14 year old kid committed suicide because he came out that he was gay and he was tormented by the other children in his school.
ReplyDeleteI think that yes two parents of the same sex can raise a child however it is impossible for a child to completely happy because everyone around them will be so against their parents. When I was in high school I was in the marching band and I had friends with a gay mother I’m not sure how they took it but when we had meetings all the parents would judge their parents. But I didn’t matter to us because we were a family and we got to meet and love his two mothers. I just hope that kids with same sex has the same kind of support system and understanding friends and family to surround them in hard times.