transgender surgery

Posted by: david

8th Nov 2010 11:21am

does anyone agree with this operation to be performed on an australian male soldier.who want's to become female.to be paid for by the australian government defence forces.
my opinion:::it must be quite debilitating for this young man to be male yet his mind is telling him he should be female.i thing the operation should be performed and the new female soldier pay it back with longer service.my only thoughts are this man has children and will not have a father as such.how will it affect them???

CPB

17th Nov 2010 12:36am

I disagree with "we are either born Male or Female". What defines gender? Legally, our sex organs do. Yet, consider this: if a person is born with male genitalia, but physiologically, the structure of his brain resembles that of a woman, which might in turn cause him to perceive himself as a female, would you consider him to be strictly 100% Male? This is just my take on this. I think we need to consider more that just our genitalia in defining gender.

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