^“Hermaphrodites” have long been “freaks of nature” (and displayed as such) in humans and mammals, but common botanically. Not really the result of “advances in medical technology”.
Homosexuality has also long been “practiced”, often in youth by folks who do NOT end up being practicing homosexuals.
Actual transgender issues are also as old as human beings are, and you might be surprised to know that there are a number of indigenous cultures around the world that allow people to live as a different sex from what they’re born.
There is also considerable evidence that transsexuality is rooted in physiology, and is something stemming from biological development (see, for example, this study on gendered brains). When the brain gender and the body gender don’t match up, people try to make the body gender match the brain gender – and that causes considerably less unhappiness than trying to change things the other way around.
Basically, it isn’t that technology is “inventing” this or twisting nature. It’s that the nature is already there, and technology is finally starting (a little bit) to catch up to what some people need.
sw10mm about 9 years ago
No it’s not what you’re asking. You’re asking to be treated as something better and to get preferential treatment.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Interesting and respectful ’toon.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
^“Hermaphrodites” have long been “freaks of nature” (and displayed as such) in humans and mammals, but common botanically. Not really the result of “advances in medical technology”.
Homosexuality has also long been “practiced”, often in youth by folks who do NOT end up being practicing homosexuals.
Humans are more complex than plants.
lbatik about 9 years ago
Actual transgender issues are also as old as human beings are, and you might be surprised to know that there are a number of indigenous cultures around the world that allow people to live as a different sex from what they’re born.
There is also considerable evidence that transsexuality is rooted in physiology, and is something stemming from biological development (see, for example, this study on gendered brains). When the brain gender and the body gender don’t match up, people try to make the body gender match the brain gender – and that causes considerably less unhappiness than trying to change things the other way around.
Basically, it isn’t that technology is “inventing” this or twisting nature. It’s that the nature is already there, and technology is finally starting (a little bit) to catch up to what some people need.
lbatik about 9 years ago
So, if a man or a woman who was born that gender is sterile, they don’t get to get called that gender either?