Friday, March 12, 2010

What do you understand intersexuality and transexuality to be. Has your study of these topics been useful to you? How?

    Society has many different meanings and ways of how a man, or a woman should look, act, behave, and be. They believe that a man is a man from the whole nine yards, from the brain, to the feet. Same thing goes for women. What society does not know is that a person can be born one gender, but is actually another. Society may want to take a second look at Intersexuality, and Transexuality. They will learn a lot from it. It may not be the afflicted person’s fault if they are a certain way.
    Intersexuality, is a mixture of male and female characteristics. Has several definitions, and forms. Transexuality, changing one’s gender, to look like the opposite, because of forces, or the person’s state of mind. Some times, Intersexuality can happen from a number of causes. Either it can happen from genetic reasons, or it can happen anywhere in between gestation and pregnancy. Intersexuality is also when a person is born a hermadophite. I never really understood it at first. I wondered, what? How can that happen? Does it exist? When I read the article, I have found out that it does and can happen, and it exists. A person can have female genitals, the whole nine yards, but genetically, they are male.
    Transexuality is when a person changes one sexuality, usually through surgery, or they choose to dress the opposite gender, or they may have gender dysphoria. People feel that they are trapped in the wrong body for a variety of reasons, or they may like the attributes of the opposite gender. I have met a couple of transsexuals in my life. Some of them looked like the the opposite gender. They may be fully transgendered, or partially transgendered. Society expects them to be “cured” of their Transexuality. If that can happen, for every person that was “cured”, I would have been rich. I am not talking about Bill Gates rich, Warren Buffett rich, because those “cures” would have been expensive. Does a cure really exist? No. It does not.
    My understanding and knowledge of these topics has helped me very much. The article was useful, because I have learned what Intersexuality, and Transexuality is all about. I know that society might need to learn how to look at the person instead of their sexuality.

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