Reflection #16

What I understand about intersexuality and transsexuality is that intersexuality is when a person has both female and male characteristics and transexuality is when a person has a physical sex that is different from their biological one. So basically, the person looks like a women but feels like a man. When reading information about these kind of information I feel that man I wonder what intersexual and transsexual are going through in certain societies where even homosexuals are not accepted. To know that you are biologically born a certain way you did not or do not have a choice to be born that way but you are. That has a big impact on me because a lot of times people are so quick to condemn someone because they believe that a person choose to be homosexual or choose to like the same sex, but in this case these people did not choose their gender or biologically choose who they are it just happen that way they were born that way. I have learned last semester about have an extra chromosomes that can alter a person’s characteristics but reading about it in depth is in fact just amazing. To know that people can be born a certain way other then the two ways I knew which were being “female” or “male”. The way I want to look at this is if I were born that way I wouldn’t want to be treated different because I am out of the norm of the population. A lot of the time we blame the parents or the friends and society for making someone gay or lesbian when in fact even that would not be true. But now when a person is born as an intersexual or transsexual who can you blame for that? No one the person is born like that end of story. Learning about this has truly helped me to be even more understanding about the way people are and their gender preferences. How can someone blame someone for being born a certain way? I think if even after reading something like this people are still resentful of the person I believe that person has a problem and needs to seek help. My eyes are truly open about the way things are and they way things can be in the world. Everyone is different point blank and if people have a hard time accepting that then we as a country need to do our jobs my giving everyone information to help them be informed about what they do not know or think they know.