I can't recall where I heard this, probably in my intro to ethical genetic bio-technology course, which I was convinced neither of the two professors understood what they were talking about. Paraphrasing, "We don't yet know what triggers specific gender related sequences of DNA code to activate or not activate." --That's a lie. We know that hormones trigger your gender. We also know that stress factors into whether a child will turn into a girl or boy.
Your body transforms from your experiences in the womb to your experiences at 13 to when they start to stabilize at 17-23 and then until you reach old age, your hormones are what continue the process and what shape you into a male or female, up until you reach menopause and beyond, or whatever it's called when old men increase their fat stores and finally our bodies start breaking down. All that transformation happens because of chemicals that your body creates that trigger the morphing
At the end of your life, your body is the product of countless years of female or male hormones. You look very much like a man when you are an old man, or very much like a woman when you are an old woman. When egg and sperm are united, it is as if you start at 0 and suddenly you start progressing towards negative(-) infinity or positive(+) infinity.
When someone wants to get a sex change, they first start taking the opposite hormone pills. Slowly the overbalance of the opposite chemical starts to change the direction of their change. Men grow breasts; but you have to remember two things: first, a woman his age has progressed in that direction for many more years, and in order for him to look comparable to women his age, he has to morph at a much faster (and likely unstable) rate. Second, he also still has his testicles, which are working in the opposite direction as his new pills.
It takes an operation to get rid of them, and once they're gone, they're gone. If he puts a uterus in its place, it doesn't aid him in his change, because it isn't built into the body properly and doesn't send out compatible hormones. Women, too, who get sex changes and put a penis in place, lack the necessary producers of hormones.
The point I'm getting at is that, you can take pills and "fake" the growth effect of the opposite sex, but you can never really become the opposite sex. Men who become women can't grow babies in "their womb", and women can't fertilize eggs. It's impossible.
While you are in the womb, your brain and your reproductive organs fuse together and constitute who you are. To do that reasonably, you need to build a framework for a larger system of parts, your body. Your hands, legs, stomach, it all goes towards protecting and providing for your brain and your reproductive organs. --to survive is nothing, anyone can survive if they have a simple system that converts food into energy, but to create is spectacular.
It requires one of two things to create something: a brain capable of creating (one that can express its "non-matter" thoughts in complex "matter" symbols), or creation can occur using sexual organs--but not independently.
Life is more than mere survival. To me, it seems, that we have two possible paths in life: sexual reproduction, or mental reproduction, which I would equate to fueling the torch, or passing the torch. If you can't help progress human thought, then you can have children who might progress it or else pass the torch on themselves. Or put a little more correctly: You can help mankind by broadening and deepening our understanding, either improving life quantifiably (improving the convenience of life) or qualitatively (improving the quality of experience in life). I am speaking of deeper qualitative improvements--doing things no one has done, experimenting and inventing methods to improve human quality (such as when the film media[quantitative] was invented and allowed artists to improve the [quality] of life by teaching the world how to really feel through film)
So fitting all of this into gender:
People need to take advantage of their gender, not run from it. You're just wasting your life if you try to play the opposite part. You don't really improve anyone's quality of life by changing your gender from your sex (gender is choice, sex is birth). It's a selfish tactic, and I've tried to argue before that humans aren't meant to be selfish; we're meant to work together and overcome selfishness and create greatness.
[[EDIT: Be sure to read my follow up to this article!]
When someone wants to get a sex change, they first start taking the opposite hormone pills. Slowly the overbalance of the opposite chemical starts to change the direction of their change. Men grow breasts; but you have to remember two things: first, a woman his age has progressed in that direction for many more years, and in order for him to look comparable to women his age, he has to morph at a much faster (and likely unstable) rate. Second, he also still has his testicles, which are working in the opposite direction as his new pills.
It takes an operation to get rid of them, and once they're gone, they're gone. If he puts a uterus in its place, it doesn't aid him in his change, because it isn't built into the body properly and doesn't send out compatible hormones. Women, too, who get sex changes and put a penis in place, lack the necessary producers of hormones.
The point I'm getting at is that, you can take pills and "fake" the growth effect of the opposite sex, but you can never really become the opposite sex. Men who become women can't grow babies in "their womb", and women can't fertilize eggs. It's impossible.
While you are in the womb, your brain and your reproductive organs fuse together and constitute who you are. To do that reasonably, you need to build a framework for a larger system of parts, your body. Your hands, legs, stomach, it all goes towards protecting and providing for your brain and your reproductive organs. --to survive is nothing, anyone can survive if they have a simple system that converts food into energy, but to create is spectacular.
It requires one of two things to create something: a brain capable of creating (one that can express its "non-matter" thoughts in complex "matter" symbols), or creation can occur using sexual organs--but not independently.
Life is more than mere survival. To me, it seems, that we have two possible paths in life: sexual reproduction, or mental reproduction, which I would equate to fueling the torch, or passing the torch. If you can't help progress human thought, then you can have children who might progress it or else pass the torch on themselves. Or put a little more correctly: You can help mankind by broadening and deepening our understanding, either improving life quantifiably (improving the convenience of life) or qualitatively (improving the quality of experience in life). I am speaking of deeper qualitative improvements--doing things no one has done, experimenting and inventing methods to improve human quality (such as when the film media[quantitative] was invented and allowed artists to improve the [quality] of life by teaching the world how to really feel through film)
So fitting all of this into gender:
People need to take advantage of their gender, not run from it. You're just wasting your life if you try to play the opposite part. You don't really improve anyone's quality of life by changing your gender from your sex (gender is choice, sex is birth). It's a selfish tactic, and I've tried to argue before that humans aren't meant to be selfish; we're meant to work together and overcome selfishness and create greatness.
[[EDIT: Be sure to read my follow up to this article!]
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