sabato 19 gennaio 2008

Gender: More Than Just a State of Mind

Fox News reported today that a Catholic hospital refused to perform a breast augmentation on a person who was born a male. The patient, Charlene Hastings, had undergone a transgender surgery and was rejected for surgery, because the hospital deemed it inappropriate to perform surgery on someone they considered a man.
Hastings filed a suit for discrimination citing that the hospital staff told her that this surgery was not part of God's plan for her. She disagrees and believes God desires her to have this breast augmentation surgery. After all, for Hastings gender is subjective (Hastings received a transgender surgery because he felt that he was actually a female). If gender is subjective why shouldn't the will of God be the same?
Let me present this situation in another way- there is no reason to get into the Divine Will or gender theory in this case. Why? Because transgender surgery does not actually change the gender of the patient. Instead, transgender surgery accomplishes a mutilation of genitalia and replaces it with a non-functioning facsmile of the other sex. In other words, 'Charlene' Hastings is not a woman because she was born a man and can not function as a woman physically or emotionally. Therefore, this is not just another woman seeking plastic surgery, but a man who has already had one surgery that was extremely damaging to his body.

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