Is It Right or Wrong for a Person to Change the Gender They Are Born With?

[Smt. Priyanka Seethepalli asked: Is it right or wrong for a person to change their gender they are born with? Nowadays, due to medical technology, transgenders are going through surgery and hormone injections to get the physical features of the gender they wish to be. Some of them feel trapped in another genders body and they are willing to go through whatever is needed to change their gender.]

Swami replied: The gender is not in any way concerned with the soul, which is related to the external gross body only. Change of gender is the subject related to the worldly issues only and not related to spiritual issues. In view of the souls, there is no difference by gender. All souls belong to one gender only that is female. God is only said to be the only male (Purusha or controller) and all the souls including the rest world are said to be female (Prakruti or controlled). Of course, this controller-controlled concept is based on the trend of the old generation and not on the trend of the present generation. When Tulasi Das told Meera that females are not eligible to enter his asylum, Meera asked him “Are there males in souls also? So far I am thinking that Lord Krishna alone is male”. Tulasi Das fell on her feet and became her disciple. Till then, Meera was a disciple of Tulasi Das!

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