temporal1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:13 pm
yes. is there anyone in the developed world not aware of rare exceptions?
should the entire world revolve around recognizing and accomodating rare exceptions?
this is pretty much where we are, is it where we should be?
at what point will it be decided, who will decide?
If you were raised as a female through your childhood and around 15/16, your parents finally took you in to evaluate why you hadn't had a period, yet had all the outward signs of a female, and now the doctor says you are a male, would that be easy for you or your parents to accept and change?
(1.5 out of 10,000)
Or you are a biological male, and when you hit puberty, you don't develop male secondary markers but rather female and people don't believe you when you claim to be a male (1/660) (XXY)
Those are the simple ones to work with... You can have something called Ovotesticular disorder which you can have one of each and it can happen in several different ways, such as male external markers with female organ internally. These are extremely rare with no real solid numbers on the sub-divisions of the types but probably around 1/20,000
Now, I do agree these are exceptions, and the second one, for example, is generally caught at a young age. Personally, I have never encountered these disorders, but I think being kind and loving in these cases is not a problem. As a Christian, we should prayerfully consider how to respond to these disorders. I think the transgender society has taken these rare cases and ran with them trying to argue intersex is more common than it is, and that you can now identify as intersex is ludicrous...
Our nation has 329 million people in it roughly, and if you considered the rate of these, you might have 16,000 odd of the rare kind. Would you want to be mistreated or demanded to have a chromosome test before you are accepted? I mean... Mennonites are not common, but given how many Conservative Mennonites there are, we could have as many as 2-3 with the rare kind and considerably more, yet still pretty rare, with XXY.
Some of these questions shouldn't be left to the secular scientist, but rather prayerfully considered by a church body. That being said, the overwhelming majority of what we are facing right now has a lot more to do with mental health and social pressures than chromosomes or rare genetic disorders.