Annotated Bibliography for From Theybies and Maybies to Babies
Anderson, Ryan. “New York Times Reveals Painful Truths About ‘Sex Change’ Surgery.” The Heritage Foundation, The Heritage Foundation, 26 Nov. 2018, www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/new-york-times-reveals-painful-truths-about-sex-change-surgery. Accessed 14 Oct. 2019.
Chu acknowledges that sex reassignment surgery can’t truly reassign a person’s sex, because it was never assigned in the first place. Anderson says the reality is that “sex—maleness or femaleness—is established at a child’s conception, can be ascertained even at the earliest stages of human development by technological means, and can be observed visually well before birth with ultrasound imaging. Cosmetic surgery and cross-sex hormones don’t change biological reality.”
Chu also recognizes that the process actually made things worse for him. He says that once he started the cross-sex hormones, he continually felt worse as time went on. He also mentions that his psychological state deteriorated once he started the transition.
Lastly, Chu realized that his sex reassignment resulted in suicidal tendencies. He revealed that before he began taking hormones, he was almost never suicidal, but once he started taking them, he was often contemplating suicide.
I will use this source to show that gender reassignment surgery causes more problems than it fixes.
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Anderson, Ryan. “Sex Reassignment Doesn't Work. Here Is the Evidence.” The Heritage Foundation, The Heritage Foundation, 9 Mar. 2018, www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence. Accessed 8 Oct. 2019.
Dr. Paul McHugh explains that sex reassignment doesn’t adress the psychological struggles that those with gender dysphoria face. He states that, “Transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men. All (including Bruce Jenner) become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they ‘identify.’ In that lies their problematic future”. According to a 30 year-long study done in Sweden, the suicide rate of those that had gender reassignment surgery rose to 20 times higher than their comparable peers. McHugh also argues that the idea of gender shouldn’t be as controversial as it is. He relates it to identifying the genders of other species. He says, “No one finds it particularly difficult—let alone controversial—to identify male and female members of the bovine species or the canine species. Farmers and breeders rely on this easy distinction for their livelihoods. It’s only recently, and only with respect to the human species, that the very concept of sex has become controversial”.
In the article, the author mentions a Swedish study of 324 patients, in which those that underwent surgery were associated with “considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population”. Another doctor, Paul McHugh, argues that sex reassignment is never necessary, or defendable. He feels that “ the surgeon is merely cooperating with delusional thinking”, and gives the analogy of providing liposuction treatment for “an anorexic who is extremely slender but believes themselves to be overweight”.
I will use this source to help explain that reassignment surgery is unnecessary.
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Frankel, Laurie. “From He to She in First Grade.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 16 Sept. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/fashion/modern-love-transgender-child-identity-parenting.html. Accessed 5 Oct. 2019.
In Laurie Frankel’s article, she explains the story of how her 6-year old began to cross dress, and later began identifying himself as a female. She says that it all began on her son’s 6th birthday, when they bought him a puppet theater with some costumes. He immediately gravitated towards the female costumes, and loved the dresses. He started just wearing it around the house, but eventually began wearing it everywhere. She was worried about how this would affect him in school, and spent countless moments discussing it with him to make sure he was doing what he wanted to do. Finally, the night before his first day, he decided to wear the dress and that he didn’t care what others would think. So they went and bought him a few school appropriate dresses since all he had were costumes. After 3 days of school, her son had already made the choice that that was who he was, and that he wanted to be a girl. By the age of 8, he was telling people that was no longer a boy wearing a dress, but a girl.
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Heyer, Walt. “Hormones, Surgery, Regret: I Was a Transgender Woman for 8 Years - Time I Can't Get Back.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 11 Feb. 2019, 9:05am, www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/02/11/transgender-debate-transitioning-sex-gender-column/1894076002/. Accessed 8 Oct. 2019.
Walt Heyer says his gender dysphoria started at the age of 4 because his grandma would repeatedly crossdress him and tell him that he was a beautiful girl. At the age of 42, he decided to transition into a female because he thought it would solve his gender dysphoria, but he later realizes that transitioning doesn’t fix the underlying ailments. Studies show that most people who want to undergo gender reassignment have other psychological issues, such as depression or anxiety. He says for him, he was diagnosed at age 40 with gender dysphoria and at age 50 with psychological issues due to childhood trauma. Heyer says the situation with his grandma led to sexual abuse from his uncle, before he was even 10 years old. He said that the abuse is mainly what caused him to no longer want to be a male. At the time, he thought that his family and the adults he looks up to would accept him. After dealing with the stress of living a double life, at the age of 40, he was told by Dr. Paul Walker that gender reassignment was the only option to relieve him of these problems. This change devastated his marriage, his children, and his career, and the reassignment provoked suicidal tendencies in his life. By the age of 55, he realized the mistake he had made, and decided to return to being a male.
I will use this source to show that even those that transition into the opposite sex say that it wasn’t the true solution to their issues.
Chu acknowledges that sex reassignment surgery can’t truly reassign a person’s sex, because it was never assigned in the first place. Anderson says the reality is that “sex—maleness or femaleness—is established at a child’s conception, can be ascertained even at the earliest stages of human development by technological means, and can be observed visually well before birth with ultrasound imaging. Cosmetic surgery and cross-sex hormones don’t change biological reality.”
Chu also recognizes that the process actually made things worse for him. He says that once he started the cross-sex hormones, he continually felt worse as time went on. He also mentions that his psychological state deteriorated once he started the transition.
Lastly, Chu realized that his sex reassignment resulted in suicidal tendencies. He revealed that before he began taking hormones, he was almost never suicidal, but once he started taking them, he was often contemplating suicide.
I will use this source to show that gender reassignment surgery causes more problems than it fixes.
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Anderson, Ryan. “Sex Reassignment Doesn't Work. Here Is the Evidence.” The Heritage Foundation, The Heritage Foundation, 9 Mar. 2018, www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence. Accessed 8 Oct. 2019.
Dr. Paul McHugh explains that sex reassignment doesn’t adress the psychological struggles that those with gender dysphoria face. He states that, “Transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men. All (including Bruce Jenner) become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they ‘identify.’ In that lies their problematic future”. According to a 30 year-long study done in Sweden, the suicide rate of those that had gender reassignment surgery rose to 20 times higher than their comparable peers. McHugh also argues that the idea of gender shouldn’t be as controversial as it is. He relates it to identifying the genders of other species. He says, “No one finds it particularly difficult—let alone controversial—to identify male and female members of the bovine species or the canine species. Farmers and breeders rely on this easy distinction for their livelihoods. It’s only recently, and only with respect to the human species, that the very concept of sex has become controversial”.
I will use this source to show that it is not the physical condition of those with gender dysphoria that needs to change, but their mental one.
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Barber, Nigel. “The Gender Reassignment Controversy.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 16 Mar. 2018, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201803/the-gender-reassignment-controversy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2019.
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Barber, Nigel. “The Gender Reassignment Controversy.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 16 Mar. 2018, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201803/the-gender-reassignment-controversy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2019.
In the article, the author mentions a Swedish study of 324 patients, in which those that underwent surgery were associated with “considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population”. Another doctor, Paul McHugh, argues that sex reassignment is never necessary, or defendable. He feels that “ the surgeon is merely cooperating with delusional thinking”, and gives the analogy of providing liposuction treatment for “an anorexic who is extremely slender but believes themselves to be overweight”.
I will use this source to help explain that reassignment surgery is unnecessary.
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Frankel, Laurie. “From He to She in First Grade.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 16 Sept. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/fashion/modern-love-transgender-child-identity-parenting.html. Accessed 5 Oct. 2019.
In Laurie Frankel’s article, she explains the story of how her 6-year old began to cross dress, and later began identifying himself as a female. She says that it all began on her son’s 6th birthday, when they bought him a puppet theater with some costumes. He immediately gravitated towards the female costumes, and loved the dresses. He started just wearing it around the house, but eventually began wearing it everywhere. She was worried about how this would affect him in school, and spent countless moments discussing it with him to make sure he was doing what he wanted to do. Finally, the night before his first day, he decided to wear the dress and that he didn’t care what others would think. So they went and bought him a few school appropriate dresses since all he had were costumes. After 3 days of school, her son had already made the choice that that was who he was, and that he wanted to be a girl. By the age of 8, he was telling people that was no longer a boy wearing a dress, but a girl.
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Heyer, Walt. “Hormones, Surgery, Regret: I Was a Transgender Woman for 8 Years - Time I Can't Get Back.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 11 Feb. 2019, 9:05am, www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/02/11/transgender-debate-transitioning-sex-gender-column/1894076002/. Accessed 8 Oct. 2019.
Walt Heyer says his gender dysphoria started at the age of 4 because his grandma would repeatedly crossdress him and tell him that he was a beautiful girl. At the age of 42, he decided to transition into a female because he thought it would solve his gender dysphoria, but he later realizes that transitioning doesn’t fix the underlying ailments. Studies show that most people who want to undergo gender reassignment have other psychological issues, such as depression or anxiety. He says for him, he was diagnosed at age 40 with gender dysphoria and at age 50 with psychological issues due to childhood trauma. Heyer says the situation with his grandma led to sexual abuse from his uncle, before he was even 10 years old. He said that the abuse is mainly what caused him to no longer want to be a male. At the time, he thought that his family and the adults he looks up to would accept him. After dealing with the stress of living a double life, at the age of 40, he was told by Dr. Paul Walker that gender reassignment was the only option to relieve him of these problems. This change devastated his marriage, his children, and his career, and the reassignment provoked suicidal tendencies in his life. By the age of 55, he realized the mistake he had made, and decided to return to being a male.
I will use this source to show that even those that transition into the opposite sex say that it wasn’t the true solution to their issues.
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