Olympic Athlete to Change Sex
Yvonne Buschbaum, a German Olympic athlete that competed at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, has become one of the first celebrities to acknowledge in public she will undergo a sex change process. Buschbaum plans to become a man, according to her website.
Buschbaum is a Track and Field star who placed sixth at the Pole Vault race in the Australian Olympics. She said she always felt like a man, and she will retire in order to be able to go through a hormone treatment that would have been impossible to get if she was still competing.
While certainly one of the first high profile athletes to declare such intentions, Buschbaum is not the first athlete to want or get a sex change. A few years ago, Indonesian boxer Parinya Charoenphol underwent surgery and treatment to become a woman. Her case caused great controversy in the boxing world because of fears she would be unfairly equipped if she decided to participate in women’s boxing.
Yvonne Buschbaum must be held for her courage and bravery in a world of sports where LGBT issues are still seen as taboo. Not very long ago, NFL star Junior Seau did some negative comments after a former San Diego Chargers teeammate came out, after all, and that attitude is still prevalent around the world and magnified in sports.
If Buschbaum wants to have a sex change, I say, more power to the future him! It’s her right to be who she-he wants to be, just like it is my right to go to Taco Bell and eat a burrito or to buy a egg-yellow shirt at K-Mart if I want to and nobody has the right to prohibit me from doing so, although I would be commiting fashion suicide if I did buy a egg-yellow shirt. So she is allowed to do it, and I hope her well for the rest of her life.
Medically speaking, there is a lot of ignorance when it comes to sex change operations. The medical field has come a long way covering this issue since the first sex change was performed in 1930. Today, many male to female transexuals look more and more like natural born girls than ever. Recently at an HBO documentary, I saw a Hawaiian transexual woman who could be hired by Jennifer Lopez to be a personal decoy because she looks so much like J. Lo. Not only that, but the risks concerning these types of surgeries are large.
Male to female transexuals are at great risk of developing breast cancer because of the current technology used to grow breasts. The risks involvimg female to male patients are unknown but there has to be some health risk to that operation too. The sole action of changing one’s hormones itself carries great risk, because the human body does not like adapting to new things.
Ivonne Buschbaum has claimed that she did not undertake any hormone treatments during her athletic career because that is banned in her sport.
This week’s woman I must do is Alicia Silverstone. The animal lover has a person who feels animalistic desires towards her here. Alicia, when you read this, ring me up, babe!
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POSTED BY: Antonio Santiago
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