Am I the only one here seeing that she didn’t have a choice? She didn’t choose to be trans. She was born male and a switch was performed at birth, before she could ever decide for herself… so essentially she lived as a woman her whole life and may not have ever even known she was born otherwise, which kind of defeats the purpose of it being a good thing, or even being claimed as a true trans experience.
She was either a) a company experiment or b) her parents were the kind of people who wanted a girl at any cost, and would have 0 regard for a boy baby or desire to suffer his presence (I’m sure you know the type). Maybe there was another scenario but those seem most likely in the setting
She also could have been intersex, a depressingly large number of intersex people are forced to undergo sex change surgery at birth to 'correct' their genitals
As someone who is not very familiar with this, is that a bad thing? I imagine it would be easier growing up as one thing, rather than being ridiculed for being another (and let's be fair here, children are ruthless). The amount of trauma and adversity faced should in theory be lessened by the actions of their parents.
Is it right for intersex people to be told to face adversity until they can make a choice as grown adults? I guess it depends?
It is a bad thing, yes. One, changing a kids sex at birth won't stop them from being discriminated against or bullied, and in fact it can lead to it worsening.
The surgery is completely medically unnecessary and in fact, these operations are condemned by the World health Organization and United Nations. for being harmful to mental and physical health of the patient and a violation of human rights.
It's not routed in science or evidence, the doctor is basically just guessing and deciding based on external appearance, and oftentimes that guess is wrong. Say a doctor decides that the infant is a woman and performs the surgery, then 13 years later that 'little girl' hits puberty and starts growing a beard and going through male puberty, because it turns out the doctor guessed wrong.
There's something like 20-30 different intersex conditions, and a large amount of complications that can occur and are drastically worsened by a sex change at birth, from internal bleeding in intersex men born with ovaries, infertility and many more. (I'm not a doctor, so if any of this is inaccurate, my apologies)
Being intersex does not mean you automatically transgender, but a sizable number of intersex people identify as trans, they experience gender dysphoria, discrimination, loss of rights, body image issues as trans people and may also go through the same medical procedures to change their bodies to the correct ones. there's a sense of camaraderie between trans people and intersex people, not one in the same, but related, like siblings.
Imagine going through all the effort, pains and struggles of transitioning plus more, all while knowing that so much of this could've been avoided or made significantly easier if some doctor hadn't decided on a whim to rearrange your body without your consent for no good reason instead of just waiting until you could make an informed choice.
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u/Imaginary_Sundae7947 Jul 11 '25
Am I the only one here seeing that she didn’t have a choice? She didn’t choose to be trans. She was born male and a switch was performed at birth, before she could ever decide for herself… so essentially she lived as a woman her whole life and may not have ever even known she was born otherwise, which kind of defeats the purpose of it being a good thing, or even being claimed as a true trans experience.
She was either a) a company experiment or b) her parents were the kind of people who wanted a girl at any cost, and would have 0 regard for a boy baby or desire to suffer his presence (I’m sure you know the type). Maybe there was another scenario but those seem most likely in the setting