Does God have the right to reassign your gender?

[xerx]

I haven't completely thought this through yet.

But I'll go with: No, it'd be perfectly ethical to induce their development of secondary sexual characteristics. We give growth hormone to children w/ pituitary impairments, so why not this? Likewise glasses, hearing aids, braces, etc to encourage a normal course of development.

Sure, but this assumes that AIS is a disorder as opposed to a condition. These people seem happy to function as "women;" people with pituitary impairments aren't happy or healthy. Is it ethical to give someone a procedure that would overhaul their personalities in ways an adult self may find highly invasive?

[mfckrz]

Sure, but this assumes that AIS is a disorder as opposed to a condition.

I'm okay w/ calling conditions disorders when they interfere with leading a functional human life thru no fault of the person's own.

These people seem happy to function as "women;" people with pituitary impairments aren't happy or healthy. Is it ethical to give someone a procedure that would overhaul their personalities in ways an adult self may find highly invasive?

Isn't it also possible they'd be equally (or more) happy being raised as men with corrected testosterone sensitivity?

[xerx]

I'm okay w/ calling conditions disorders when they interfere with leading a functional human life thru no fault of the person's own.

Isn't it also possible they'd be equally (or more) happy being raised as men with corrected testosterone sensitivity?

They might be, but couldn't you make the same case for changing a baby's personality from an artist's to an engineer's?

[mfckrz]

They might be, but couldn't you make the same case for changing a baby's personality from an artist's to an engineer's?

Not as easy to execute given that personality is contingent on a host of complex interacting factors. Whereas this would be correcting a single variable.

I'm more leery about trying to steer complex systems to predetermined ends. Too many things to go wrong.

[xerx]

Not as easy to execute given that personality is contingent on a host of complex interacting factors. Whereas this would be correcting a single variable.

I'm more leery about trying to steer complex systems to predetermined ends. Too many things to go wrong.

Suppose we had the technological procedure to make exact changes to someone's personality then.


EDIT: although I lean towards calling people with AIS women, it's still a pretty murky topic and I'm enjoying taking in different perspectives.

[Sol]