Friends,
My post (on my public Facebook page) on transgenderism in response to a question from a parent, has raised a lot of concerns and controversy. I’d like to add more information to the discussion.
First, I always respond to questions as serious as this from a medical perspective, not from an ethical or moral one.
Of course, we can make any argument from these perspectives, but we also need to know medical facts – particularly when it comes to issues as serious and confusing as transgenderism. When a parent is confronted with a situation as serious as this, he/she must not react too quickly and do whatever is necessary to help the child not make any decision until he/she is an adult. Far too many parents quickly respond to their child.
I am strongly opposed to reversing a child’s biological gender for the following reasons:
- Any medical treatment given to a person has to have a consistently reproducible outcome that helps a patient well over 90% of the time if it is to be given. Changing the gender of a patient DOES NOT have this. Transitioning a child would be like a doctor giving a patient an antibiotic for meningitis…
