Transgender: right or wrong?

I am Pro, supporting the right to transgender

If you except this challenge then you will be Con: arguing that transgender is wrong.

good luck, CON

Con has accepted this debate now and will be expected to produce counter-points to the reasons i give for transgender being allowed.

Firstly:

What is transgender:

Identified with a gender other than the biological one (transvestite e.g. one who has a sex change operation)

Why should it be allowed?
[1] Sometimes a persons outside doesnt reflect who they are on the inside. ?

[2] Many individuals dont have the personal strength to accept theyre that gender, some people believe they were born the wrong sex and many cases, people have committed suicide because they cannot take the blow of how mainstream society reacts to people who want to be different by changing their gender because they dont like who they are on the outside.

Gender is the most fundamental part of one's identity as a human being. The very first question everyone asks about us is "Is it a boy or a girl?"

Important though it is, most people never think much about gender. They have no idea what causes their sense of being a boy or a girl, a man or a woman. Having never suffered mis-gendering, they take their gender for granted like the air that they breathe, never giving it a second thought. It is an unquestioned birth privilege to have a gender.

Conventional wisdom says that people are either boys who grow up to become men, or they are girls who grow up to become women. There are only two possibilities, and you are either one or the other. It's obvious at birth from your "genital sex", and that's all there is to it! However, as we will see, reality is not that simple.

What makes us a boy or a girl? What determines our gender identity?

During early pregnancy, a fetus that has male genes (XY chromosomes) usually develops into a boy with male genitals. It develops into a girl with female genitals if it has female genes (XX chromosomes). This happens well over 99% of the time. Doctors and parents look at an infant's genitals at birth, and simply declare it to be a boy or a girl.

Those declared to be boys usually grow up into men having a male gender identity, and those declared to be girls usually grow up into women having a female gender identity. Again, it all seems pretty straightforward.

Although more than 5% of all men and women will grow up to be gay, and will seek love partners of the same sex and/or gender as themselves, they too usually have normal male and female gender identities as men and women, respectively.

Intersex conditions - including intersex babies whose gender is ambiguous at birth:

Although most infants appear to be either normal boys or normal girls, various genetic and developmental effects can lead in some cases to infants having ambiguous genitalia, so that even the doctors can't be sure whether it's a boy or a girl. In other cases, the genitals look correct for one gender, but aren't consistent with the infant's genes. In yet other cases the child's genes are something more complex than just XX or XY, and the child's gender identity and physical gender trajectory as they mature may be difficult to predict in advance. Children having these genital and/or genetic variations are called "intersex". Intersex babies are produced in about one in every 1000 births.

For example, in about one in 13,000 births an XY (genetic male) fetus is unresponsive to fetal male hormones, and develops genitals that look like a girl's, except for a lack of internal reproductive organs. These XY "complete androgen insensitivity syndrome" (cAIS) infants are simply declared to be girls and are raised as girls. Although they cannot bear children, they often develop into slender, attractive women who have a female gender identity. It's rumored that a number of beautiful models have been cAIS girls.

More information can be followed up at

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu...


To finish off my first arguement:
i think that it is extremely ignorant to assume that it isnt normal for some people to be born with the wrong mindset for their gender (non matching to almost say)

Too much plagiarism.

-_-

Write your own argument? If not, whatever.

i have given my arguement and i am waiting for you to be bothered to counter it, you're the one holding up this debate as you have not responded to my first case.

please respond to it