Should kids have a chance to grow up and decide what gender they are, or should parents change their sex early on?

[SvennoJ]

Shackkobe said:

So how sure are you it's all biologically set at birth.
Anyway no clue what Spurge is watching, but if it is a case of ambigous genetalia, the earlier the better for the child. Well, unless they guess wrong :/

I happen to know a male with deformed genitalia who his dad, against the doctors recommendations, refused to let him be made into a girl.

He was a shy, reserved kid (didn't know why at that time)

When he hit puberty and his natural hormones took over he blossomed into a handsome confident young man. You wouldn't know he had this issue.

Thank goodness his dad was wise enough to not add a layer of additional stress to his unfortunate condition. 

Those two are good, personal friends of mine.

Food for thought.

He was lucky. It must often be wrong as it seems doctors vastly prefer the female form, easier perhaps.

There's still so much we don't know. We can see anormalities in genetalia and measure anormalities in hormone levels, yet what actually goes on in the brain is still mostly a mystery. More fascinating is the resistence against the thought of transgender people. Nothing in biology is as simple as A or B. Why would gender be any different, it's just another evolutionary mechanism.