Sex ex-change
Wednesday, August 10th, 2005I have this belief that if someone wants to move to my country and I want to move to theirs, there should be some way to transfer citizenship from one person to another. Well, as it turns out, I’m not the only one who thinks with this kind of logic.
Apparently, a 27 year old Chinese man who wants to get a sex change has decided to donate his penis to a woman who also wants a sex change. The woman apparently has tried attaching a penis before with little success. Her first penis was made with skin taken from her abdomen.
This is not a first in China. In 1993, doctors attempted to attach another donor penis but the organ failed due to rejection from the immune system.
The funny thing about this article is that the title truly portrays how China views women (“Man offers to donate penis for odd woman”). What are they calling her odd for? He’s the known suicidal effeminate male who wears makeup and is willing to donate his penis and get a sex change! Suddenly she is the one labeled a freak…?
This is expected, though. China is a society that has a one child policy where the majority of parents wish to have sons to carry on their esteemed family lines. As a result, the abortion rate is high, doctors are often paid to kill girls upon birth to make it look like stillbirth (i.e. post-natal infanticide) and other girls are either abandoned or put up for adoption. In fact the problem is so bad that the Chinese government is willing to pay couples to produce daughters. If the problem persists, Chinese men will begin to have problems finding Chinese brides in the future (approx. 120 males born for every 100 females).
The problem is not only in China, though, it has also crossed our own borders into Canada. If you’re a pregnant woman in British Columbia wondering why your doctor is refusing to tell you the sex of your baby, perhaps you should look to your Chinese neighbor. With all the Chinese immigrants in B.C. there has been an increase in the same behavior as in mainland China. In order to prevent sex-selective abortions, B.C. has stopped informing parents of the sex of their fetuses in order to deter the desire for abortion until after an abortion is no longer an option.
What, then, will happen if it becomes common practice to select the sex of your children through genetic manipulation? Will Chinese parents take advantage of this privilege as well?
