I don't know if y'all are aware of this old story, but it pops up on my newsfeed randomly this morning w/plenty of likes and shares. The story in question is a Daily Mail article regarding an 11 yr old boy raised by Lesbian parents undergoing hormone treatment.
Now, I feel that taking hormone treatments & testosterone blockers is stopping the natural male process. That is just as bad or worse than having a surgery. Without those, he/she will automatically head toward becoming a woman. The actual penis won't matter if all the other processes of the body are feminine. The decision is being made w/the meds. Removing the penis will be the final step as opposed to an optional step. This is twisted, IMO. If anything the parents should allow the natural processes to happen & then after he/she has reached adulthood, make an adult decision. If we're gonna reinforce fem gender roles, & block natural masculine processes, it's basically a sex change. These parents aren't even trying to buy into the possibility of gender confusion. If he/she was indeed gender confused, then after hitting puberty, the natural processes would take it's proper course. If he/she wanted to do this AFTER experiencing puberty & getting a chance to explore his/her natural sexuality, than that would be different. More than likely that if he/she reaches say 17, and identifies w/the female gender AND is devoid of the necessary testosterone, this child will gravitate towards being a woman. Not much of a shot of he/she all of a sudden saying "I think I'm a man now". And trying to make it sound less devious than it is. By introducing the meds, they're taking the possibility of confusion off the table. The natural process should be the decider, not meds that influence the natural process.
And here are somethings I have found. Now I never profess to be an expert on gender identity, but I used some logic & what I do know about the issue:
http://www.sevencounties.org/poc/vie...=37697&cn=1272
Any thoughts?
Now, I feel that taking hormone treatments & testosterone blockers is stopping the natural male process. That is just as bad or worse than having a surgery. Without those, he/she will automatically head toward becoming a woman. The actual penis won't matter if all the other processes of the body are feminine. The decision is being made w/the meds. Removing the penis will be the final step as opposed to an optional step. This is twisted, IMO. If anything the parents should allow the natural processes to happen & then after he/she has reached adulthood, make an adult decision. If we're gonna reinforce fem gender roles, & block natural masculine processes, it's basically a sex change. These parents aren't even trying to buy into the possibility of gender confusion. If he/she was indeed gender confused, then after hitting puberty, the natural processes would take it's proper course. If he/she wanted to do this AFTER experiencing puberty & getting a chance to explore his/her natural sexuality, than that would be different. More than likely that if he/she reaches say 17, and identifies w/the female gender AND is devoid of the necessary testosterone, this child will gravitate towards being a woman. Not much of a shot of he/she all of a sudden saying "I think I'm a man now". And trying to make it sound less devious than it is. By introducing the meds, they're taking the possibility of confusion off the table. The natural process should be the decider, not meds that influence the natural process.
And here are somethings I have found. Now I never profess to be an expert on gender identity, but I used some logic & what I do know about the issue:
http://www.sevencounties.org/poc/vie...=37697&cn=1272
Quote:
In other words, higher levels of male hormones strongly influence girls to behave as though they were boys. |
Quote:
Children learn vicariously, in part, through their observation and imitation of what they see their primary caregivers doing. They tend to imitate and internalize what they see and then repeat those patterns in their own lives as though they had come up with them independently. Children raised watching their parents adhering to strict gender-stereotyped roles are, in general, more likely to take on those roles themselves as adults than are peers whose parents provided less stereotyped, more androgynous models for behaving. |
Any thoughts?
via JREF Forum http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=266547&goto=newpost
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire