Should intersex people have to choose their gender, either female or male? Do intersexuality people need treatment? These types of questions definitely bring up a variety of issues. I think that most people that have more of an issue with intersex people are people that are religious. I am not very religious at all so I think that not having that background has a different affect on me. I definitely don’t think that people that are intersex should have to choose being either female or male. Society forces them to conform to one or the other by checking a little box when filling out legal documents or any other random survey.
On the movie Multiple Genders movie Reverend David Holloway is a perfect example of how Judo Christian views are portrayed in our society today. He said that people who have these issues have “deformed” bodies and are not healthy. He said that kids should have a committed mother and father and that is what families consist of. But the way I think of that is a little old fashioned. Aren’t families about having unconditional love and support, and not what sex your parent is? Dr. Stephen Whittle from the Multiple Genders video say children of gays and lesbians are exactly the same as children with different sexed parents. I think that as long as you have love and are a good hearted person then it shouldn’t matter if you are female, male, black, white, lesbian or any other different thing on this earth. Everyone is different in their own way and forcing people to conform and choose that box on that piece of paper is ridiculous.
As far as them getting treatment why, what is the purpose? What is their medical reasoning behind it? Just because people are different the “normal” and “religious” people think that we need to give them help when they don’t need help. They just need people to get off of their backs and let them live their life as normal as humanly possible. They are confused enough about how they feel, they shouldn’t have to deal with people who have no idea who that person truly is.
Humans are all humans no matter who they like or what they believe. We all roam this earth with common interests and goals and even though we can’t all agree on everything we should be able to agree that forcing someone to choose a gender when they don’t feel like either one is wrong. I think that the government needs to be sensitive to intersex people’s needs and to make more than just a check marked box for a female or male. Being gay doesn’t even come into play because being gay just means that you like the same sex. That is no one’s concern but your own. Being intersex is when you feel like you are not either, so in order to fit in and feel like they are a part of this world they have to check one or the other box. Hopefully in future things will change and people will become more understanding of this issue.
Nicole : )
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First and foremost, according to most of my understanding from lessons taught in class and research I have done since, intersex is mostly define as someone being born possessing either an anatomical and/ or physiological attribute of the male and female gender. To be intersexual of the mind is a different concept from the one that I believe I was led to understand. To psychologically be of neither gender, or even asexual was to me different, than the physical form.
ReplyDeleteAnother stand point that I disagree with you in is the view of anti-homosexuality, intersexuality, and non-conformity as an issue of religious persons. To say that would be imprudent to the fact that every nation as a whole is represented as a religious unit. Whether a Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, etc, nation, there will always be members of a nation that does not conform to the religion of their nation, but may stand for another and no-religion at all, however they will stand for the cultural up-bringing produced by that religion, that is the basis for which the laws of a nation are created. In America we are deemed a Christian nation although not everyone is Christian or of religion. Our laws were based on biblical statures and that has become our culture derived from the Christian framework the nation’s forefathers had created. In America we see it wrong for a person to have to cover up, to be a form of ‘help-mate’, etc just because that person is a woman. In the Middle East they may otherwise agree and have to conform to the previously stated examples whether Muslim or not, but because the laws and cultures of the Middle East were based on Islam.
Reverend Holloway is but one man that cannot speak for the whole. Yes, I see intersexuality as an anomaly. Yes, I am indeed a Christian, however it is not these grounds that I form my opinion of person of intersexual gender. I look at these people and sympathize with them, without choice they entered this world, no say on, race, looks, upbringing or gender. Whatever they choose feels right to them, I yield to it.