Mesaba, I don't know very much about the latest scientific findings on transsexuals. When you talk about genetic links, what are you saying exactly?
The two transsexuals I have known felt trapped in bodies to which they could not relate. Both of them felt that they should have been women, but were born male by mistake. One of them got the sex change operation, and then ended up as a lesbian. So I was thinking, well, if you wanted to be in love with a woman, why didn't you just stay a man? But I am sure it is not that simple.
I do think that after all the hormones you have to take, all the therapy you have to have, and the pain and uncertainty of the surgery, it is still really easy to tell that these people are transsexuals. I wonder how many of them are really happy for the rest of their lives. It is really a long and somewhat brutal process to go through, for such limited results. But I did not stay in touch with the two I did know long enough to observe how they did, and felt, later.
And I wonder if eventually doctors will discover how to treat people like this with drugs--hormones or whatever--to transform the way they see themselves, so a man would begin feeling like a man, for example, and be happy--instead of transforming their physical characteristics and plumbing into that of the opposite sex.
Transsexuals are definitely in a different category than homosexuals, if that is one of the questions you are asking. Homosexuals generally are sexually attracted to people of their own sex, but they are comfortable in their bodies and do not want to be a person of the opposite sex.
Were you asking whether it was sinful to be transsexual? I certainly don't think so. I don't think it is anything voluntary, or something a person can help, or a moral failing of any kind. But I bet Shalom and the others at Ask God would see it differently!
What do you think? |
