So let me pose a few questions to understand how people break this down, Please, no rants or casting of aspersions upon those who question or answer in this exchange.
Case A
-- A man is castrated (no specification as to how)
-- He would meet the definition of a Eunuch, but is he still a man?
-- He receives no hormone replacement therapy and lacking any normal level of Testosterone or androgen he becomes soft and effeminate in conduct and appearance. Now is he a man?
-- He chooses to have his penis reconstructed into a simulacrum of a vagina and takes female hormone therapy. Is he now a man? Is he now a woman? How do you justify your answer to this?
Case B
-- A man suffers the loss of his penis, (no specification as to how.)
-- Would he meet the classification of being a Eunuch, or would he meet the classification of being a man?
-- He chooses to have a surgical construction of a simulacrum of a vagina. Is he now a man? Is he now a woman? How do you justify your answer to this?
-- He then goes further to have his testicles removed and take female hormone therapy.Is he now a man? Is he now a woman? How do you justify your answer to this?
One might question from cases A and B if it is a penis or testicles that is more important to make an individual a man
Case C
--A child is born with a rudimentary vagina and a rudimentary penis but the parents do not opt for gender reassignment surgery because they do not trust the doctors to guess right.[3]
-- At the age of 15 this intersexed individual considers both options and opts for sexual reassignment surgery and related hormone therapy in which, one of the external genetilia will be modified by creating a simulacrum appropriate to the gender the individual selects. Can this individual then be a man or a woman according to their selection? How do you justify your answer to this?
Disclaimer.
I am not seeking to start any wrangling here but I am looking for a basis for wrapping my mind around the issues involved. It is not that I have no basis but I am seeking to examine it in the spirit of:
and I want to make sure that I have given the matter of gender identity a thorough hearing from a Biblical/Christian viewpoint in the spirit of " Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;".(1Thes 5:21, BBE) and the spirit of the Bereans (Acts 17:11).In the 18th chapter of Proverbs the teacher wrote: 13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
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From Dictionary.com
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[1]
trans woman - or trans-woman, transwoman
noun
1.
an adult who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
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[2]
simulacrum
[sim-yuh-ley-kruh m]
noun, plural simulacra
[sim-yuh-ley-kruh] (Show IPA)
1.
a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
2.
an effigy, image, or representation:
[3]
It is reported that Intersexed people strongly recommend that an intersexed child not undergo sexual reassignment surgery until they are old enough to choose for themselves which choice should be made or if nothing at all should be done.
It is also reported that the country of Malta forbids such sexual reassignment surgery of intersexed infants.