Is it both possible and morally acceptable for people to change their gender?

i think it's generally agreed upon it is possible with hormone therapy, but i could not tell you at what exact point the changeover occurs. it's almost like the question of abortion in regards to at what point does a life become a life. Is it morally acceptable? These are things only God knows the true answers to. The thing we must do is love each other. If someone close to me changed their gender, does that give me reason to love him/her any less? No, I should love and care for that person just the same because that person is still a human being and needs love just like me.

Terminology error there.....transsexual people DON'T change gender; we know (probably better than most) that it isn't possible. Gender is determined in the brain (not the genitals) before birth, and is unchangeable. For the majority of people, this isn't an issue, because their gender matches their physical body exactly. For transsexual people, it doesn't; there is a disparity between the gender of the brain, and the physical anatomy of the body. The only 'cure' for this distressing, debilitating and frequently fatal condition is to make the two match; since, as I said above, it isn't possible to alter the gender, the only solution is to alter the body to match the gender. This CAN be done (with varying levels of success) by the treatment commonly called 'sex change' treatment; a long, difficult and painful series of medical interventions that offer the only effective treatment for this congenital condition.

Religion and morality have no input into this; it's a medical treatment for a congenital neurological condition. Anyone who believes it's 'against God', 'morally unacceptable' or 'sinful' presumably also refuses to accept treatment for harelip, clubfoot, congenital heart defects...presumably the sufferers of those conditions should also 'be happy with the way they're born' and 'not alter God's creation'.

Here's some food for thought;

http://www.harrybenjaminsyndrome-info.org/

and the answer to this question may also be of interest; it addresses this issue;

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiHzY...

I think that its possible to change how people perceive you and that tends to make your life easier if you feel trapped in the wrong body. If the outside 'matches' the inside there is a comfort zone for you when you are in public. I don't think they try to change the basic core of you the X,Y combos. For what ever reason the person feels they have a mix-up in the match-up I believe its o.k. to try to help them in order for them to live in the real world. I just can't judge these people. It is a heartbreaking situation for them and their families and friends. Life is too hard for most people and what can be done to ease this journey in this life I understand.

I do not pretend to speak for my religion but I do speak for my heart. I am Jewish

even as the offspring replaced into born a decade and a 1/2 in the past, darling, I heavily considered no longer circumcising him, yet my ex and my entire family contributors weighed in on the aspect of circumcision and derided the idea of no longer doing it, so I caved in to the rigidity and their arguments that he'd sense "embarrassed" if he wasn't or sense "strange" if he did not look like daddy, and that i went alongside with them. i have regretted doing so ever when you consider that. i don't think of that is honest to do something like that to someone who won't be able to consent, and that i actually do not imagine that some idiotic id practice from an historic custom to which i do not even belong should be imposed on children. Why no longer tattoo them? it really is done for team id in different cultures...if advocates of circumcision would oppose tattooing children in a religious ritual, then they ought to reassess their help for the idea of reducing children' genitals. (((Frank)))

Yes, I think it's acceptable. As some wise person once said; if you don't want a sex change, don't get one. People can do whatever they want with their bodies.

The point is not to become "completely" technically the other sex, whatever that means (are women who get hystorectomies 'less of a woman'? no). It's about altering some things of the current body to relieve the gender dysphoria.

It's hard to speak with much authority on a problem I haven't struggled with, but I will give my opinion.

If a person is born with the wrong gender, it's hard to know whether the problem is psychological or physiological. If it is psychological, I would definitely say that the person should not have a sex change. If it is physiological, I would probably consider it a birth defect and that a change should be considered. Since there's no way to know for sure what the cause is, I really don't know if it's something that would be offensive to God. I know that our enemy perverts everything in this world, and I could see him torturing someone this way if he could.

Thanks for the question. I am a United Methodist Youth Pastor.

I think it is somewhat possible for a person to change their gender, to the point where they really look like the other sex and you can't tell the difference. However, even with a sex change surgery the body still has either X or Y chromosomes - it is still biologically male or female even if it's been surgically altered.

I consider those who've undergone these surgeries to still be their original gender. I wouldn't be comfortable with a male-to-female transgendered individual getting changed alongside me in the pool locker room, for example. That's just me though.

Acceptable? Not to me. I don't think it's right. I think it is a sign that these people are hurting and suffering on a deep mental/ emotional level and they need help.

I'm a Christian (baptist).

I personally think maybe its true that you are born in the wrong body but you are born that way for a reason and wouldn't chance it. Generally in America its considered morally wrong and weird. In western countries such as Asia its moral and almost considered normal.

Live and let live. We can all make our own choices. If a person wants a sex change, then that is their choice and they can do so.

I DO find it a bit weird, personally. And I do believe that God made us male or female for very specific purposes and that we were born the gender God wanted us to be. BUT I know that not all people feel that way, it's just my personal opinion. I also strongly feel that all people can make their own choices and that I shouldn't condemn people for getting a sex change-- who am I to judge?

I find it a bit strange, but there is nothing morally wrong with sex changes. Gender, though, is a psychological state. If one wants a sex change, they were born in the body of the opposite gender.

Atheist.