(October 7, 2016 at 1:44 pm)Jesster Wrote:(October 7, 2016 at 1:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yes, it is simpler earlier on. But I never said this is some sort of rule of thumb that should apply to everything across the board. I was speaking in the context of a circumcising, which is a very different type of procedure than surgery. When you're talking about a different procedure, especially a major surgery to remove a part of your organ from inside your body, it changes the context. Should parents legally have the right to make the choice to circumcise their son? In my opinion, yes. Should they have the right to other, more drastic medical procedures for preventative type reasons? I don't know. I guess it would depend on a lot. But just because I think one should be legal (circumcision) doesn't mean I think they all should be.
(October 7, 2016 at 1:38 pm)Jesster Wrote: I'm about to get TMI for some of you here.
All of you should know by now that I am transgender. I was circumcised at birth whether I wanted it or not. This introduces things to surgery that I shouldn't have had to think about. Less material to work with means more trouble.
Should my parents have had that legal right to make that choice for me?
As I have already answered in the exact quote you posted:
(October 7, 2016 at 1:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Should parents legally have the right to make the choice to circumcise their son? In my opinion, yes.
Now to address your situation, I am sure there are times when later on parents realize that for reasons they could never have seen coming, it would have been better to take a different path than the one they chose at the time. And that seems to be the case with your parents. But I'm sure it never crossed their minds at the time that you'd want to get sex reassignment surgery or that no foreskin could make it harder to do this. Just as I'm sure the parents of old men who end up having urinary infections all the time and have to go through a circumcision on their fully grown penises, also never saw coming that their decision not to circumcise may not have been the best one for that particular son. Parents do what they think is best for their children. Sometimes it works out for the better, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the case with all things. When it comes to circumcision, I think parents should have the legal right to do what they truly think will be best and most beneficial for their sons.
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