Being transgender is not a choice

Reflections by Megan Sommerville published on the blog trans girl at the cross (USA) on July 14, 2012, freely translated by Simone Ramacci

As soon as I started writing blogs, I already knew I would get to a point where there would be disputes. The idea of ​​being a Christian transgender will annoy people of both sides: the church and the community of lesbians, gay, bisexuals, and trans. The word "Christian" can turn on a heartfelt debate on how the Church has treated the LGBT community. To say that I am transgender in the church has caused some contrasts.
Putting the two things together, it's like Napalm. If you do not carefully handle it and with the right training, it can be out of control, and damage everything on its path.

But like spontaneous fires, the old man can burn and leave room for a new life, so that a heated, but healthy debate is not a bad thing. In my first post, a person commented with statements that I think I have to consider and discuss. Before correcting some common places on being trans, I want to tell me with one of his statements.

I agree that many in contemporary society believe that the Bible, the Word of God, be full of bigotry and prejudice. There are many church leaders in the media who have done nothing but condemn the LGBT community. Charles L. Worley from Maiden (North Carolina) preached a sermon that became viral on YouTube. He preached that according to him, gays should be separated from the rest of the population to make them "extinct".

With such speeches, how is it possible that a non-Credente can think that God is above all a God of love?
How is it possible that someone may think that God is a God who punishes, when he actually came to die on the cross and forgive our sins?
Lodo people like Andrew Marin and The Marin Fpundation for their work in Chicago in relating to the LGBT community and spreading the love of God among those who feel excommunicated by the Church. We need more people like them, who work to grow the neighbor in God, instead of hurting him.
Ok, now it's time to clarify some common mistakes. And I forgot to say that this is an article in two parts, so tie the belts, we leave. (I hope I am not too technique)

First. "God made a mistake?" No! God allows us to happen to us all sorts of things? Yes. Job's book speaks of this. The problem of our bodies is that from the fall (thanks Adam) our bodies are defective. Children are born every day with physical and mental problems.
The Bible gives a lot of examples. Matteo 9: 1-3 is a perfect example, specifically of a blind-born person, of how God sometimes let something happen even if we don't know why until he decides.
«As he walked he saw a blind man from birth. The disciples asked him "Rabbi, who has sinned, his parents or this man, since he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents," said Jesus, "but it happened so that the works of God could be manifested in him" "

So we established that there are birth defects, which I don't think anyone doubted, and we have established that God could be the only one to know why this happens. As for trans, these people suffer from gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder.
This is defined as a difference between the kind of birth and the one with which the brain identifies itself. Put simply the brain does not agree with the genre of the body. This causes ever greater suffering during life.
Because of this and the lack of understanding, many unfortunately think that the only way out is suicide. A 2010 study by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force found that this occurs in 40% of cases, against the general average of 1.6%. Small note, I was almost part of this 40%.

The treatment recognized at the moment follows a very precise standard, registered by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. People have followed psychologically, they receive hormones, and many undergo a gender confirmation (first known as gender reabsser intervention).
Transgender that go from men to women undergo years of painful laser or electrolysis hair removal treatments, many choose to operate to have female faces and breasts, to reconcile body with soul and mind.
If there is group support and friends and relatives, usually transgender people who undergo these interventions are happier and satisfied than they were before they start.

Various causes for gender dysphoria have recently discovered. The androgen insensitivity syndrome is one of them. Without raising us in medical terms, the body is not able to assimilate testosterone, so that a genetically male body cannot develop male secondary characteristics, and similarly the brain is unable to develop according to biological sex.
Klinefelter syndrome is another. In this case they are males born with abnormality in chromosomes. Xxy are born instead of xy.
This happens approximately for a number between 1 every 500 and 1 per 1000 births. The manifestations of this syndrome vary, and not always those born with an extra X chromosome will be transgender.
Many men live throughout their lives without knowing that year an extra chromosome. Even if there are no studies, it is speculated that in some cases the extra chromosome can affect the development of the brain, making it lean for a more feminine than male identity.

These are just two of the possible causes. Much more research is needed in this field to understand what these syndromes cause at the level of fetal development, and if there are other causes.

So I ask you, if someone is born with a defect, it is not ethical from a medical and moral point of view to do anything is necessary to correct the problem, even for the surgery? Let me conclude with another example.
When my son was born, he seemed in all respects normal, but at the first full exam the doctor noticed a small but important birth defect.
We were told that this defect would need a surgical operation in the near future, so that it could live a normal life. Around 18 months the pediatrician discovered another defect, more serious this time, which would have requested another surgery.

So I ask you to think about this: is my birth defect is different? Have I chosen to be transgender?

Original text: Being Transgender Is Not a Choice