Should parents have the rights to change kids' genders?

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28 Oct 2018, 2:19 am

But why do parents have the legal rights to put their kids on estrogen or testerarone hormones if they are under age?

Doesn't that seem wrong?

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28 Oct 2018, 10:52 am

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Well what puzzles me about it, is why the parents thought their child would pass as a girl. I read more of the story and he was bullied in school for it, and it seemed the other kids thought that something was off.

I just wondered why the parents thought it would work, cause switching out one body part, still means that the rest of the body is going to be male. People are going to be able to tell. So it may sound like it's a solution that would work if you lived in a fantasy land with fantasy technology. Maybe Q from James Bond could make it work, but what made the parents think this would likely pass in real life?

Because people think gender is defined by what your body is and what is between your legs. This is naive thinking many people have. If a man loses his penis, he is still a man. If a child loses his penis from some accident, he is still a boy. Plus when he enters puberty, his body is still going to develop into a male's body. Their brain isn't going to think "oh look, he doesn't have a penis so he must be female, let's develop this body into a female body now."

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28 Oct 2018, 11:37 am

This is one of the few times I actually agree with the evangelical Christians. Their take is that ANY kind of sex change, even if you were born with defective geinitals (like myself), is an abomination and is to be condemned at ALL costs.

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28 Oct 2018, 12:01 pm

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28 Oct 2018, 1:09 pm

Well it's just that I feel that doing that is going to cause all these other problems, for the child down the road, and it's not a solution therefore.

Plus I don't get why it's legal either. I mean it's illegal to do other invasive things to children without their consent, but apparently removal of genitalia and replaced with opposite genitalia is completely okay? Isn't that hypocritical?

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28 Oct 2018, 3:32 pm

ironpony wrote:

I have never heard of a parent changing their kid's gender by deciding to have their kid's penis chopped off and replaced with a vagina or the other way around.

In this case, this only happened because of a botched circumcision. So the doctor told the parents this and thought it would be best he be raised a girl so they followed his advice and did it. It was all ignorant what they did. All this story does is prove to me that transgender issues really do exist and there really is a male and female brain and they are not making it up when they insist they are the opposite gender.

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28 Oct 2018, 3:53 pm

Well it says that in the true story, because the medical field considered this operation to be a "success" that it lead to other parents deciding it for the kids as well, which just seems wrong to me, since it's not the kids' choice.

As for these parents listening to the doctor's advice on transforming the kid into a girl, didn't the parents at least think the idea was a bit of an eyebrow raiser and decided to seek other doctor's opinions first before diving in on just this one's advice, without any other research?

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28 Oct 2018, 6:31 pm

ironpony wrote:

There are parents out there that will just blindly listen to the doctor without doing any research or going for a second opinion. I wonder if intelligence has anything to do with it.

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