This week in class the subject of reproduction was brought up and there was a lot of back and forth on the idea. People should be able to sleep with and marry who they want. However, like Alexis said life can only be produced through a biological man and a biological woman. It is impossible for two men or two women to bring forth life, it’s not talking down about or disagreeing about homosexuality or transgendered people, it’s just the reality of the situation. Also, I do not remember all the questions Dr. Abbey put forward to make it more complicated, but one I do recall was, can people who are transgendered have children? To me the answer is no and possibly yes. No, because if you have a trans couple who are the same gender it’s not happening just like with other homosexual couples or if there is trans heterosexual couples who’ve had both top and bottom surgery each, technology is still not to the point where that would even be possible. Perhaps yes, because if trans man and a trans woman get together technically you still have a biological man and biological woman it’s only that they switched roles. If neither has had bottom surgery and they have sexual intercourse the traditional way or if a trans man identifies as gay and has sex with a biological man, then it might just be possible for them to have a child. For example, the “man” who had a baby. A man did not have a baby; a female to male transgender did with the help of artificial insemination. (link to article http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5302756&page=1). At the end of the day it boils back down to the same argument, that it takes a man and woman by birth to make another life. Taking hormones of the opposite sex doesn’t change one’s sex it just makes the person more comfortable with their gender identity. They can take all the hormones they want but at the end of the day even though the public doesn’t see what’s in their pants they’re still what they were born as. Yes, their organs might shrink or enlarge but they still have them. I have a testosterone imbalance where I produce too much of the hormone but that doesn’t make me a man.
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