How and when should gender be determined?
Claim: Young children should not be given sex reassignment surgery.
Thesis:
Children who are born with an intersex condition where reproductive or sexual anatomy does not fit typical females or typical male’s norms should not have sex assignment surgery performed. The social and cultural need to place intersex individual’s into the category of one sex or the other can have negative impact on their mental and physical health.
I. Young children should not be given sex reassignment surgery until the child is old enough to understand the risks and benefits of the proposed surgery, because this mutilation can have inaccurate and negative repercussions that cannot be reversed.
A. It’s impossible for …show more content…
Parents are comfortable with a sex change surgery because they rather not have a homosexual child.
3. Although not accurate, doctors have believed for years, that children require typical male or typical female private parts in order to have a healthy psychological childhood.
III. Intersex and transgender individuals, although different in their identities, are joined in their recurrent fight against the gender typecasts embedded in the law. Dr. Paul McHugh States the notion that, "Sex change" is biologically impossible. He claims that people who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder (McHugh, P.).
A. A neurological basis for gender identity establishes it as an innate trait and therefore not a mental disability or disorder like Dr. McHugh states.
III. To Conclude: Doctors should not force a gender to a child at an early age. These children many of times do not fully mature their physical genatelia until they hit puberty, and often can to self-identify with a gender and make their own decisions about their bodies at a later
Claim: Young children should not be given sex reassignment surgery.
Thesis:
Children who are born with an intersex condition where reproductive or sexual anatomy does not fit typical females or typical male’s norms should not have sex assignment surgery performed. The social and cultural need to place intersex individual’s into the category of one sex or the other can have negative impact on their mental and physical health.
I. Young children should not be given sex reassignment surgery until the child is old enough to understand the risks and benefits of the proposed surgery, because this mutilation can have inaccurate and negative repercussions that cannot be reversed.
A. It’s impossible for …show more content…
Parents are comfortable with a sex change surgery because they rather not have a homosexual child.
3. Although not accurate, doctors have believed for years, that children require typical male or typical female private parts in order to have a healthy psychological childhood.
III. Intersex and transgender individuals, although different in their identities, are joined in their recurrent fight against the gender typecasts embedded in the law. Dr. Paul McHugh States the notion that, "Sex change" is biologically impossible. He claims that people who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder (McHugh, P.).
A. A neurological basis for gender identity establishes it as an innate trait and therefore not a mental disability or disorder like Dr. McHugh states.
III. To Conclude: Doctors should not force a gender to a child at an early age. These children many of times do not fully mature their physical genatelia until they hit puberty, and often can to self-identify with a gender and make their own decisions about their bodies at a later