Saturday, September 12, 2009

Free write: opinion on transexualism

Note: This is not a condemnation on those who are suffering a gender identity crisis. This is purely an opinion on what transexualism (having undergone sex change) is.
Most people who are struggling with gender identity, often invoke that sex change operations serve as a means of transforming one’s body to its natural state, which, according to them, is determined by mental identity, in order to establish a natural balance between the mind and body. In plain, making a "what should have been" scenario, reality. However, I believe transexualism to be a form of self-mutilation.
When one undergoes surgery in order to synchronize mental sexual identity with physical sexual identity, they are not transforming into the opposite gender in which they sense they are, but rather they become a mutilated version of their natural, innate gender. Here, surgically dismembering natural sexual organs and replacing them with artificial organs yields a product that is just that, artificial. In other words, surgery is a means of altering the appearance of one’s sexual organs, and does nothing to alter their natural genetic makeup. Moreover, there are other distinguishing aspects about being male or female aside from reproductive organs such as, bone structure, hormonal balances, voice frequency, and facial features. Although many transsexuals have taken this into consideration, and have undergone various cosmetic remedies in order to blend their polarized mental and physical identities, it is still apparent (in most cases) that a person is a transsexual/transgender individual. Nothing is wrong with this if that person is happy with themselves and is "comfortable in their own skin", but if a person is seeking a natural transformation, unfortunately transsexualism is not the answer. No matter how well the surgeon was or how well the surgery went nothing could change the natural gender of a person; surgery can only change the appearance of the reproductive organs.
What is innate is natural; this includes body as well as mind. Just as nothing can change the gender of a person, nothing can change the phenomena of gender identity crisis. In essence, a person who is struggling with gender identity is just as natural as a person who is not struggling is. (since most people who suffer from GIC obtain it at birth or shortly thereafter). So, when a person who is struggling with gender identity decides to undergo a sex change, they are essentially mutilating their natural body, just as a person who is not suffering from gender identity would have mutilated natural body after having had a sex change operation.
In conclusion, there is nothing that can change innateness, only mutilate it.

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