The Scientific Breakthroughs That Break Us

Over the years, science has undoubtedly evolved to the greatest of heights we could have even imagined some years back. Gone were the days when humans had to resort to using herbs for treatment of infections and other diseases but today, science has been able to advance to the stage where we have synthetic drugs in the system and even vaccines to help us build immunity against some microbes. To me, that’s a lot of progress.

For someone who’s so engrossed with science, there’s no day I don’t do something related to science. I’ve been in the science field for as long as I can remember and one thing I can tell you is that science is a very broad field which means we need more hands on deck. Everyday, there are scientists and researchers out there putting their lives on the line to provide ground breaking solutions to problems the world faces today.

During the COVID-19 period, I spent months in the lab with other researchers running tests on Covid samples to identify the causes and strains of this virus. I saw people put their lives on the line for us to use the vaccines we have today. This shows that science is actually progressing so much. However , to everything there’s the good and the bad sides and science is not an exception. Science has to some extent be able to provide some solutions to cancer and other genetic diseases but also, science on the other hand I believe, is doing more harm than good in the lives of some individuals.

You might be wondering which individuals I’m talking about here. I’m talking about individuals who decide to change their genders that is transgender patients. Growing up, I knew there were only two genders in this world which were male and female and there were only a few rare conditions of people being hermaphrodites. This means that, God in his own wising chose our genders for us for reasons best know to him and so I don’t see the reason why someone will just wake up and decide that oh, today I want to be a man or a woman.

I get that it’s a personal decision and that totally okay. But the role that science plays in these decisions isn’t a very healthy one to me. For most people, they prefer to go with hormone therapy which is the most common now. Others also decide to go with genetic editing while others choose to change their genital parts all together through plastic surgery. It sounds like an easy process to anyone who doesn’t know what it really entails because we assume that these situations would be handled by professionals.

But, there are always side effects to these things. You’d literally have to be on drugs your whole life just to prevent your body from going back to its natural state or gender and your body itself would undergo so many changes due to your hormones as all. Generally, it’s exhausting but that’s what some people want and I respect that. But as someone in the science field who’s looking to come up with ways and means to make the world a better place through science, I think this whole issue of transgender in science is something I don’t support. Maybe, this decision might change in the future but for now, it is what it is.

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