gb93433 said:
As I have studied the issue of homosexuality I certainly am against any support of it. However as a christian when it comes to man's manipulation where should I stand and how must I treat possible mistakes by doctors especially when the baby was clearly hormonally a certain sex but the baby was changed through surgery. I simply cannot believe that surgery changes a sexual orientation originally imprinted by God in his infinite wisdom.
I wonder how many are on the street today and a mistake was made by the doctors at birth. From what have read it is likely that some were given a wrong assignment because the decision was made on the basis of what appeared to be proper considering the cultural environment rather than scientific/medical evidence. It is my understanding that assignment was given even against what the medical evidence showed in the baby. Could it be some of those people are called homosexual when they are really not? Could it be that some of these people were assigned a sex rather than let God do it and what it really was? Did man make a mistake and an individual must pay a price for it? Is it possible that some are called homosexual by Christians when God knows different because he knows how he really made them?
I think many of your questions have to do with an assumption that isn't quite true. That all of us are clearly either male or female.
The reality is that there are people, although it is rare, where during development or from their genes, gender is not at all clear. This is very different from a majority of homosexuals where developmentally and genetically they are clearly male or female but their sexual attraction is towards the same gender.
Most of us should know that XX is female and XY is male. The reason for ambiguities are from genetic, developmental and hormonal causes.
Genetic issues include Klinefelter's sydnrome of XXY
Developmental issues include mosaicism where some cell populations are XY and others are XX.
Hormonal issues include the functioning of testes and ovaries to produce the right hormones.
It takes a rare combination of these factors to have someone who has both male and female external and internal genitalia at birth and an ambiguous sex assignment.
I'm not sure how the medical recommendation is usually given but my assumption is that it is based on the relative functioning of testes or ovaries to determine which hormones are produced to a greater extent because that gender will have the most likely "success". The other consideration is the extent of development of external genitalia but that can usually be modified surgically to fit the hormone profile.
