Thursday, April 3, 2008

What is Normal??















One of the challenges of globalization is the continuous questioning of traditional beliefs... at many instances, questioning what you perceive as normal might be a good step to realize your errors in thinking and behavior but then it may simply opens the Pandora box...Can a woman turn to a man because she feels like a man? and what if she decided although she's a man now that she wants also to have a baby? I remember my utter surprise to see those few young women and teenagers back home at school and weddings looking like men in complete suits and trying to empower the masculine look by appearing in public with delicate feminine girlfriends... Why would physically normal person chooses the hassle of changing the sex by painful surgeries and strong drugs with all the psychological trauma and confrontation with the extreme societal rejection? that's something a peace- seeker person like me can't comprehend, but in their cases peace may only be reached by sex-conversion... This is not a new phenomenon in human history, as it is well documented in ancient books including Islamic books of well-known judges who made some famous "fatwas"or judgments on those persons according to their physical anatomy, but of course, the area of psychological anatomy of a person poses now the real challenge, with no well known etiologies which distinguish "trans-genders" (i.e. is it a psychological or genetic disease or is it a natural human state?) it becomes quite difficult to provide a rational logic behind their attitudes or suggest a way of dealing with it let alone promote society acceptance...If we start asking what's normal in our own perceptions, can there be a limit for the human ideas and actions?

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