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Sydney you raise a very good point and I am not sure how I stand on the issue of people born both genders. I will just have faith in God that the doctors chose the right gender. Besides can't they give them hormones, since according to you the testosterone and estrogen levels control sexual preference?
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No, hormones will only have an effect on a prenatal brain. Once the child is born, administering male or female hormones isn't going to do anything but alter physical characteristics. The current trend among doctors is to leave intersexed children the way they are until they can decide for themselves if they feel like a boy or a girl. It used to be common practice to surgically assign intersexed babies soon after birth and tell parents to bring them up in their assigned sex. But as these children grew older, many of them claimed, if they'd been assigned male, that they felt like girls, and vice versa. Most of these children were never told of their intersexuality, which proves gender isn't constructed socially, but biologically.
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It seems to me a belief where humans are all victims of society and science devalues human life much more than Christianity. At least Christians believe that everyone has a soul and that everyones souls tries to do what is right and that when we die we have a chance to go to heaven
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Who said anything about victims of society? Christianity is a black and white world in which the complexity of human life is rounded down into a simple system of reward and punishment. I'd think the motivation to do good deeds is more admirable in a non-Christian, who doesn't need the hope of heaven or the fear of hell to refrain from hurting people.
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