The Ignorant Facts

This most recent episode of Bones once again attempted to push a philosophy on its viewers which caused me to just roll my eyes. This episode's topics: God can make mistakes and does so by putting a female into the body of a male...but it's not really a mistake, since God can't make mistakes, so we are just improving on God's design through surgical reconstruction. Therefore, if someone feels like a female and gets the appropriate surgeries, we're considered ignorant if we still call him "him". Despite what you may think, I believe God doesn't make mistakes. And I most certainly do not think that we can improve on God's design. So let's look at the facts here, with an eye toward Occam's Shaving Implement. A body (usually) is born male or female . When it's male--it's male. It has X and Y chromosomes. It has the skeletal structure of a male, it is male. Now, enter the human psyche. For some reason this human is not comfortable in his own skin. He prefers all things female. He thinks he is female...except for all the hated physical attributes created by the very building blocks of his male-ness. So...who got it wrong? God? Billions of years of evolution? Or the human. In any case he gets a surgery and now expects everyone to call him "her". Ain't gonna happen! He still has male physiology; he still has X and Y chromosomes. He is still a he except for a few tiny appearance-alterations. A mental development cross-wire (not under-wire) and some surgery does not change what that person is. Yes, I'm insensitive. Why? Because I'm fed up with the expectation that everyone should conform to, validate, and otherwise embrace whatever idiosyncrasy suits others at the moment. If you're a male who wants to be female...you're still male. And vice versa. Get over it. Don't expect others to call you "she" or "her" because that's what you want. It's not ignorance to call an apple an apple, even if it's sliced, diced and made up to look like an orange. Once again the subtle sell on Bones wasn't lost on me. And I still don't feel bad, despite its best efforts, in calling a he "he" and a she "she".