Should a person be allowed to choose one's gender?

i haven't heard anything about that case at all, just googled it and skimmed a little, and so far it seems to be exactly how i'm raising my kids. you Can't choose your gender, but you can choose gender expression and gender roles. i personally think gender roles are bullshit, completely made up and there's no reason to follow them. sooo, i don't see why restrictions regarding the roles should be forced on a kid. the kid has a gender, may identify as entirely female but prefer things stereotypically masculine. big deal. if you try to force stereotypically feminine things on her, it will do nothing good, and really i don't think it'd do anything but make her think she has to pretend to be something she's not naturally, which just isn't healthy.

Why, of course!

Or rather, by that I mean that people should feel free to express their gender identity in any way they see fit. And of course choose it IF they're able to do that. But I think for the vast majority of people, gender identity is not a choice. It tends to be rather hardwired and immutable.

As for choosing other people's gender FOR them: no, they should not be able to. It should all be up to the individual in question to determine how he/she/ze/they feel like.

..But of course, in the case of children, they aren't able to make their own choices right away. Therefore exceptions need to be made, and some decisions really DO need to be made for them. Names, etc, being one of them. We live in a society where people basically *need* to have names, because that's how we refer to each other and distinguish one person from another. So NOT naming a kid would be highly impractical. And names often tend to be gendered.

I think that is okay as long as the child in question is allowed to pick a name that suits him/her/hir/them better IF <insert pronoun here> grows up and realizes that they really, really don't like their name, or that their name has the wrong gender associated with it. But I'm fine with the parents picking the name on at least a TEMPORARY basis. (And of course, if the child likes it, it will be on a permanent basis, and that will be fine.)

A person does not "choose" their gender.

I don't know what the case with Storm is, but if the child was born a hermaphrodite, then no, I do not believe the parents should make the decision. I think they should wait for the child to grow up and have the child tell them what gender they ARE.

Do you mean like having a sex change? Or choosing the gender of the baby before it is conceived? In either of these cases then yes. If you mean changing the gender of their child after he/she was conceived/born, then absolutely not. It's not their lives they're changing anymore.

People can't choose their gender. People can go through surgeries to appear to be the opposite gender, but they are still the gender they were born as.

And the "Storm" thing is stupid. Hiding your child's gender doesn't help it at all.

I just heard about that today. That poor kid...he/she's going to be bashed on so hard by other kids in school. His/her parents should be ashamed. Whatever their gender is, they should stick to wearing clothes that suit their specific gender (regardless if they're gay or not), and that whole "transgender" thing is BS and the people who think they're the opposite gender born into their actual gender's body need to seek therapy.

People should be allowed to be who they are, gender roles be damned.

You CAN choose your gender. You CAN'T choose your sex. ( =

I don't think they should because:

those people are just playing god

it should a surprise, cuz surprises are fun..... sometimes

but you get what i mean right? :]

God chooses it and that's final.