I have read quite a few post from other people in my class. It really shocks me how many straight laced conservative people are around. I am in no way saying that it is a bad thing because variety is the spice of life. It is just hard for me to figure out why people can’t see things the way I do. (Just like it is hard for me to see things the way they do !)
There seem to some people in this class that are extremely religious and really stick to their guns. I too was once pretty religious. My mom and dad made me go to Sunday school and church every Sunday. I had to go to the youth group meetings every Sunday night. We did bible study on some Wednesday nights. For them it was peer pressure to go to church. We lived in a small town in west Texas, where everybody knew everybody. If you were missing from church, the next time someone saw you, you were expected to give an explanation as to why you weren’t there.
That is not to say that my parents weren’t both religious. They both were and still are. But as I was growing up, I decided that I thought it should be my choice what religion, if any, I wanted to be. I wasn’t sure that I believed everything that I was saying at church. I was reciting words from a book but I questioned those words. So I understand the christian religion but there are somethings that just don’t fit for me.
Some say that homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender, etc is not what god made and that it is not natural. So if we go back and see that god created the earth and everything in his likeness. He created nature and everything around us. Maybe some people believe that everything happens for a reason. For example, when the body rejects an embryo because genetically there are defects, that is god’s natural selection process. He is weeding out the bad and keeping the good.
So if god creates everything…I’m not too sure how to tie this in to the point I’m trying to make, so bear with me as I try to explain. God is nature and nature is god. Babies are gods babies and they are born heterosexual. (If we go off of the christian religion.) Homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgendered people CHOOSE to be that way. They are not born that way…then how does religion explain intersexed people.
Intersexed people are born with some form of both sexes. Some have enlarges clitoris’ that look like small penis’. Some begin to develop breasts at puberty but have been named a male. Some people are born intersexed because of genetics and some are that way because of hormones. When these children are born, parents panic and doctors respond. “Pick a sex! What ever you want it to be, we can make it into that! With a little nip and tuck, you can have a boy or a girl!” And they choose the sex of the baby! Just like that. But what if they choose the wrong sex? What happens if they were wrong and made the wrong changes? That’s what happens a lot unless a parent or doctor says, “Wait!”. Let’s figure this out. Lets see what develops.
So when religious people say that being transgendered is a choice, they are also saying that intersexed people are making a choice. (Kind of…) Feeling like you are in the wrong body is a serious thing and is not a choice. It is a feeling. It is sometimes genetic or hormonal. It’s not just about not liking the sex that they are so they want to change.
So Oprah had a show last week about intersexed people and she goes on to defend the LGBT community. So with that said (and no point really made)…you should watch this clip. 
http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/200709/20070921/slide_20070921_350_101.jhtml
Saying that people choose to be gay is about as silly as saying that people choose to be heterosexual. Nobody **chooses** who they love…they simply love. And isn’t love what God is **ostensibly** all about? But then if you follow the argument of the Religious Right, they are wrong for loving. But how can love be wrong? Yeah. I think about this a lot, too.
Great job!!