It is no surprise that Camille Paglia would be one to way in on matters of gender and sex. After all she is often called the dissident feminist due to her heretical views on many issues of modern feminism. Recently she has been getting a lot of press about something she has said to do with transgender conditions and the sex reassignment surgery used for people suffering Gender Dysphoria. What did she say exactly to get peoples ire up so much?
"The cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible. Every single cell of the human body remains coded with one's birth gender for life. Intersex ambiguities can occur, but they are developmental anomalies that represent a tiny proportion of all human births."
However, she is in fact correct and she has said nothing controversial. Sex reassignment surgery is not able to change someone's biological sex. What happens during such surgeries is that a person has their body changed to imitate the body of the sex their Dysphoria is based around. However, no one whom does such surgeries would say they can change the actually biological make up of their client to biologically be the sex they identify with. The surgery is done to at least attempt to stop the horrific mental condition which is the clients Gender Dysphoria from which they are currently suffering.
Camille is correct that your DNA will forever be coded for your birth gender or biological sex. She is correct that a Trans man or woman will never biologically be the sex they wish to live as. However, what we do is to humanize those whom suffer from this condition and then from there should do whatever can be done to assist them relieve their suffering. It is still a Dysphoria and it is in the DSM Manual still regardless of what Special Snowflake SJW types would like to think. It is a mental/medical condition and it is not normal, but, it is something that also should not make a person less than either.
Sexual Reassignment Surgery is like a very much last ditch effort at trying to assist in the process of relieving the sufferers of this condition. It is along with this that we than begin to use their pronoun associated with their new reformed body that is associated with the sex being imitated as a way of again relieving their issues they have. Anyone that knows what actually happens during such procedures knows that one is imitating and not really biologically the sex they identify with still. Camille is correct that ones biological gender or sex really will go to this persons grave as the same biological sex/gender that was ones birth gender.
