What do you understand intersexuality and transexuality to be.

Intersexuality is how a person is from birth, meaning that they can be born with a male and female sex organ at the same time given them the term of a true hermaphrodites. Unlike transsexuals an individual is born with the gender identity disorder, believing that they are disconnect with the biological sex organ and therefore is in the wrong body. This means that their brain function as one gender and their body trapped in the opposite sex. I was unaware that the term for gender and sex was not interchangeable. The term for gender is more an identity and sex is a physical form.

Transsexual is sometimes confused with homosexuality. Transsexual cross-dress, which develops the term transvestite. A homosexual person does not need to cross-dress and is very much comfortable with their appearance and the love and affection for the same sex. Sometimes, both groups do alter their features by taken hormonal drugs to fully transform their physical characteristics. But a transsexual has a brain that operates opposite to their physical sex. It is believe that a transsexual is born with hormones that got affected when the mother is stress and researches are still trying to prove this. How true this is I don’t know.

Intersexuality is described as a person who was born with genitalia that is neither male nor female. Activist groups and task force groups are trying to not let the government do genital surgery without the approval consent of the adults. I can understand that when a mother has her child at the hospital, right there and then she would like to identify the sex of the child. This cause parents who have encounter a child with intersex to be confused and uncomfortable. Parents have to be very careful in the decision they make to “quick fix” their child, which may lead to scaring the child mentally. Medical intervention should be prevented at this time, and more focus on the parents’ emotions on how to get through the early stages of their child lives.

Overall parents need to know that their child does not have some genitalia disease, they just need to calm down and get to know their new born. Explore options to conquer feelings of shame, confusion, fear, and grief. Look to support groups with similar problems and express these emotions.