How does your religion approach the intersex dilemma?

Question

intersexed people are people who have a mixture of female and male chromosomes. meaning, they have both of the sexes in different amounts. if a person is to live that way, what is your religions view on the way they should live their sexual lives?

Thank you

Answer 1

Pagan religions tend to honor the androgynous and to accept that someone is different for a reason, but I don't think there's any official position. I don't think most religions or churches have one.

I learned some about this issue because a man I loved has a lot of intersex relatives, and I felt I should know about it before I had his babies. (I miscarried them and we broke up over it, but I'm glad to have learned.) Anyway, surgeries to make them one thing or the other in infancy--usually female, because it's easier--can leave them unable to control their bladder or have an orgasm. I'd let them grow up and make their own decision.

Answer 2

I think you may mean a hermaphrodite. (not exactly sure of correct spelling)
I knew a lady who was born with both female and male parts and her parents brought her up as a male. She was very confused and was teased in school and lived her life for awhile as a male because thats how her parents raised her. She knew she felt female inside and now lives her life as a female and takes hormones to help her with this. It's not easy to be born this way and I think they should live there lives the way they feel is right for them.
I really don't think it is anyones business to know about whats going on with the person. When it comes to relationships, its between the person and his or her partner. As long as they are happy thats all that matters. The friend I know has a boyfriend who knows about everything because she was very open with him from the start. They have a great relationship and again I think thats all that should matter and religion really should view it the same as is would a male/female relationship. They are people the same as everyone else!

Answer 3

The Catholic Church's teachings on sexuality, for anybody, are simply this: sex is morally illicit unless it's between a man and woman who are married to each other.

The Church also teaches that marriage can only happen between a man and a woman.

Any "marriage" that doesn't fall under that limit is not seen as valid by the Church. And any sex act that occurs outside of that bond is illicit.

Finally, it must be said (if it's not already obvious) that Catholicism requires that all human beings -- including the intersexed -- be treated with dignity and respect.

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Answer 4

I am Siksika Blackfoot of the Blackfeet Nation. In my culture the Two Spirits or sakwo'mapi akikiwan are sacred people, touched by The Spirits. They are honored and by some of the elders they are feared and thought to have powers even above those of a medicine person.

Answer 5

This is one of those great questions that fundamentalism cannot cope with. If being heterosexual is mandated by God, supposedly, then why does God create individuals who can be either? Are they the few divinely ordained to be able to choose whether to be, or to marry, a man or a woman?

The realities of life, even relative rarities, show the problems with black-and-white approaches to religion, morality, and just life in general.

Answer 6

Well...my personal belief...don't quote me on this, but I believe that if a child is born with both parts that they should be given the right to choose which sex they want to be or their parents should at least give them a unisex name and wait to see which sex the child most resembles before having such a life changing surgery. I abhor it when parents choose which sex they want their baby to be and then the child grows up and looks like the opposite sex. It is cruel. Anyways, it is important to remember that no negative defects or diseases are given to a child or anyone for that matter by God. Those things are all the work of the enemy.

Answer 7

My religion (Catholicism) teaches tolerance to all.

Matthew 7 - Judge not and you will not be judged.
John 13 - Love one another as I (Jesus) have loved you.

That means loving even those who hate you enough to be willing to die to save them. Even if they don't want to be saved.

Sadly, that doesn't stop the nutters (aka fanatics) from trying to use God as a weapon of hate. And usually, this is what we're remembered for.

It's very sad.

Answer 8

the religion that i was subjected to as a child would say that they need to live by the dominant feature(s). It also would be a sign that someone in their line had committed a great sin and this was a punishment sent from god.

Of course since religion is man made, its all bs.

Answer 9

HERMAPHRODITES;

A special breed not just internal thoughts
but external capacities.

What a ripoff if I had that I would be my own self KING! This world would be so confusing if we all had the choice after a few years to pick what gender we would want to be. Then how many of us would change our minds and make it our sin again, because the LAW would probably be stated that way 'HE WHO HATH CHANGED HIS MIND... SHALL BE ETERNALLY DAMNED"
Then there would be a fight about that!

So why can't we except how it is right now
and stop fooling ourselves in believing something our hearts desire.
But the LORD knew what He was doing that's why I can say He's a perfect GOD

Answer 10

This is pretty rare, number 1. Number 2, most of the time one set of organs are primary, or more developed that the others. When I say more developed, please read that to mean MUCH MORE, so much so that the other organs are mostly shriveled or "barely" there.

That is more of a personal problem and family issue than a religious one.