My topic, which I am against, is the issue on gender correction for medical reasons. Lets start with the case of the infant who had most of his penis burned off during his circumcision. Doctors decided to alter the boy's genitalia to resemble that of a vagina, and he lived the rest of his life as a girl.
I'm strongly against this for a few reasons, one of which being that I believe the doctors should have made more of an effort to save his penis, instead of performing the sex change. The doctors could have performed a skin graph on the damaged tissue and make more of an effort to save it, rather than perform a sex-change. There are multiple options to this issue, rather than jumping to the sex change.
Another reason I am against this is the child's body is already wired to develop like a boy, so when "she" gets older "she" could end up with some harmful medical illnesses. Also, the amount of trauma of the "girl" developing manly features would be too much for the person, which could lead to mental insanity.
My final reason for why I am against the changing of a he to a she for medical reasons, and vise versa, is that I do not believe our society is ready yet for these cases (sex changed individuals). Overall, I think society's reactions to these people would be a mixture of confusion, disgust, or maybe even fear, which will have a negative impact on the sex changed person.
Reflection: I think the debate went fairly well, although I picked up on some instances where I believed I could have done better. Also, it wasn't until after the debate, that I realized I could've argued with what Alyssa had said, but overall I think I did well.
Another reason I am against this is the child's body is already wired to develop like a boy, so when "she" gets older "she" could end up with some harmful medical illnesses. Also, the amount of trauma of the "girl" developing manly features would be too much for the person, which could lead to mental insanity.
My final reason for why I am against the changing of a he to a she for medical reasons, and vise versa, is that I do not believe our society is ready yet for these cases (sex changed individuals). Overall, I think society's reactions to these people would be a mixture of confusion, disgust, or maybe even fear, which will have a negative impact on the sex changed person.
Reflection: I think the debate went fairly well, although I picked up on some instances where I believed I could have done better. Also, it wasn't until after the debate, that I realized I could've argued with what Alyssa had said, but overall I think I did well.
I like how you used some of the same points that I did. Do you have a specific case that the infant change or was that just a general analysis?
ReplyDeleteYou focused the entire argument on some kid instead of sex changes as a whole. It was all one big example, and you needed to expand on the subject. Just examples aren't going to help you prove your point, because people want to know whether to support the issue or not. Not whether to feel sorry for some little kid.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed debating against you but I have some points that I want to like to address. First of all I wonder if you would agree to a sex change for the boy who whole had the whole issue with his penis if the skin graphs didn't work. I have read that skin graphs can be difficult to try and take to the original skin and a lot of them fail. Also there was another debate about neture vs nature and I wonder if that would come into play when you say he would be wired as a he thus he would have a whole bunch of medical issues. I believe that if he was raised up as a she that it shouldn't effect him mentally unless someone told him about the operation. However, the way they react to being told the were once a boy is up to personality.
ReplyDeleteI think that including you reflection on how you did in your debate and listing the points that you made was a good choice. Although i think that you should have given a few points that Alyssa had made.
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