And they are not addressing the PHYSICAL TRAUMA of surgery. Yes it is a trauma to the body. Tissues are severed with knives and scalpels and other body parts are cut to add to the new creation. Intestines are sometimes used to create neo-vaginas. As Lisa has mentioned the complication rate is extremely high.
Are they telling the parents…
And they are not addressing the PHYSICAL TRAUMA of surgery. Yes it is a trauma to the body. Tissues are severed with knives and scalpels and other body parts are cut to add to the new creation. Intestines are sometimes used to create neo-vaginas. As Lisa has mentioned the complication rate is extremely high.
Are they telling the parents this?
Are they discussing orgasms with children who have never experienced an orgasm and have no idea what that is like?
Are parents making decisions about their child’s future lack of orgasms?
Where are the bioethicists?
To be clear, I do not know what gender identity means. I know that I was born a female baby. I was not assigned at birth. This is some kind of political language and I do not use it. I liked running in the woods in old clothes that were handed down from my brothers. I liked skiing fast. Oops, now you can identify me as privileged…
I liked arm-wrestling with boys.
Thank God nobody used the word gender other than a word to connote the sex of one human or another.
Yes I get it, I am old. I have no pronouns. I am not cis. I am a humanist. I am interested in humans and what they are interested in and not in what kind of sex they have.
What kind of art do you like?
Do you like art?
Do you like reading books?
Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction?
Do you like walking in the woods?
Do you like sitting at a busy café and sipping a flat-white?
Do you like mangoes?
What about roasted cauliflower?
Are you one of those people who say they hate musicals?
This is what I want to know.
Who are you?
I don’t care how you identify.
I do not know what that means.
If we go to the woods and make a small fire, do we have something to talk about?
That's one of the best comments about this issue that I've ever read, I'm not kidding! Wonderful list of questions, a way to really get to know what matters about a person. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I'm with you 100 %! P.S. Yes! to roasted cauliflower, and mangoes!
And they are not addressing the PHYSICAL TRAUMA of surgery. Yes it is a trauma to the body. Tissues are severed with knives and scalpels and other body parts are cut to add to the new creation. Intestines are sometimes used to create neo-vaginas. As Lisa has mentioned the complication rate is extremely high.
Are they telling the parents this?
Are they discussing orgasms with children who have never experienced an orgasm and have no idea what that is like?
Are parents making decisions about their child’s future lack of orgasms?
Where are the bioethicists?
To be clear, I do not know what gender identity means. I know that I was born a female baby. I was not assigned at birth. This is some kind of political language and I do not use it. I liked running in the woods in old clothes that were handed down from my brothers. I liked skiing fast. Oops, now you can identify me as privileged…
I liked arm-wrestling with boys.
Thank God nobody used the word gender other than a word to connote the sex of one human or another.
Why does everybody want a super-special identity?
Demisexual. Pansexual. Asexual. Eunuch. Nullo. Agender. Queer. Non-binary.
Yes I get it, I am old. I have no pronouns. I am not cis. I am a humanist. I am interested in humans and what they are interested in and not in what kind of sex they have.
What kind of art do you like?
Do you like art?
Do you like reading books?
Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction?
Do you like walking in the woods?
Do you like sitting at a busy café and sipping a flat-white?
Do you like mangoes?
What about roasted cauliflower?
Are you one of those people who say they hate musicals?
This is what I want to know.
Who are you?
I don’t care how you identify.
I do not know what that means.
If we go to the woods and make a small fire, do we have something to talk about?
Let’s try that.
Thank you Lisa Selin Davis.
That's one of the best comments about this issue that I've ever read, I'm not kidding! Wonderful list of questions, a way to really get to know what matters about a person. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I'm with you 100 %! P.S. Yes! to roasted cauliflower, and mangoes!
Thank you Mildred.