Prioritizing Gender Education Over Biological Sex Education Dangerous for Transgender Health Care

The battle over Trans versus Cis gender rights to freely use bathrooms and locker rooms highlights the

dangerous future in health care for transgender. Gender is being toted as more important than the sex individuals are born with. The concept of modern gender is fluid. Men no longer need identify as men. Women no longer are required to identify as women. The importance in choosing a gender is an individual´s choice which society allows them to freely make. Whether bathroom bills should or should not exist is not the point of this article.

The importance of an individual´s biological sex must be equalized with their gender identity. This is not saying those born with penises or vaginas must be labeled male or female. Instead it is sounding the alarm of ´pretending´ biological sex makes no difference in healthcare needs. The reality is few research is available to help doctors make sensitive issues into very real health concerns. Those who identify as the opposite sex but do not transition must be fully aware there identification does not eliminate the need for proper doctors. Identifying men with female sex organs should still see a gynecologist to monitor for conditions like ovarian cancer, endometriosis, or uterine hemorrhaging. The same applies to a man identifying as a woman with male biological sex organs. The risk of prostate cancer still exists.

Transgender healthcare sorely lacks longterm detailed research in hormone therapy treatments. Estrogen and Tetosterone are not play pills. The bodies relationship with both hormones is immensely complex. Throw one slightly off imbalance and health conditions can spring up in even the fittest individual. Now combine this in children who are meant to enter puberty when hormones go slightly ´insane.´The transgender children of today who use hormone therapies to stall the body´s natural transistion should have all potential risks explained to them. They are essentially agreeing to be the human trials most studies require years of research approval to try. There have been no animal trials to hint if there bodies will face deadly health complications down the line.  The idea of allowing a child to undergo treatments which have no proven research down the line, which could lead to serious even deadly health complications, violates the promise to do no harm to a patient.

Focusing equally on the healthcare needs of biological sex does not diminish an individual´s importance to gender identification. This opens the pathway to greater discussion on how transgender plays into a healthy community. Transgender individuals who do transistion are most in need of this discussion. They face the uncertainty of how changing the outward biological sex will play into legitimate concerns of what risks still apply to inside biological sex organs. Most concerning is fully transgendered fears over visiting a doctor only to face discrimination instead of care. Research has shown many opt to avoid doctors rather then take the risk. Little good is there for a transgender member to feel comfortable in the woman´s bathroom when poorly educated doctors don´t treat their medical needs. Without media focus on health care the transgender community faces a difficult future.