Came across this comic strip on tumblr. It is about an 11 year old boy who thinks he is a girl. Below are some of the comics and my own commentary.
This is the blog:
http://assignedmale.tumblr.com
This is one of the early comics. The mistake it makes is an incorrect assertion that the labels of male and female in regards to sex organs are arbitrary. Consider Darwin observing a species in the wild. It happens to be the mating season. Do you think Darwin would classify the males as males and the females as females because they have the corresponding genitals or because that animal psychologically identifies more are as a female? The fact that someone identifies as a female when they are in reality a male does not change the physical sexual characteristics of the individual in question. One who rejects so strongly the life they have been born in to down to even disbelieving their own physical body in regard to their gender or sex is a misguided being. The problem they face is one of internal struggle that they must project into their reality thereby disregarding reality and making arguments and holding beliefs which are ill-based.
Here we again observe the incorrect distinction between gender and physiological makeup. The boy asserts that simply by growing his hair longer he has magically become a female. Growing your hair longer cannot be a "sex change" and neither can any operation. The fact remains that regardless of weather or not you have a penis or a vagina you still have a male or female brain. An individual may pump all the hormones into themselves and have all the operations they want but in reality they will always have body type x filled with hormones found in body type y and mutilated genitals. Your psychology does not change your biological gender and cutting your hair will do as much good as does inverting your penis and injecting fat into your pectorals to that end.
Again there is a push to regard a biological female as male. Then when a supposedly gay man who is the partner of the misguided female talks about how his mother is such a bigot because she made the assertion that a male and female having a child is heterosexual. And after all this a small child declares that heterosexuality and reproduction are too confusing for his belief system to handle. Her mother (father?) then pushes as far to say that heterosexuality leads to homophobia and implies that any conflicting belief held by others is inherently wrong. She then brushes it off and asks the young boy if he would like to get intoxicated.
