Celebrating confusion

I liked how John Burton called the case of Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner "celebrating confusion".

Bruce was apparently born male, but had surgery to make himself look female.  This made headlines in world news in the last week.  Bruce seemed to have regretted his decision, at least for a moment, when he said "What did I just do? What did I just do to myself?".  However, the media seems to be promoting his action as a trend.

Actually, the case of transgender has been around for years.  What Bruce did is not so new.  Nor is it to something to glorify, in my opinion.

Michael Brown talks about it as being fluid something the world things as being desirable, even if unnatural.   It is as though we should be neither male nor female, even though God created us as male and female - Genesis 1:27).  That we should maim ourselves to identify with the maim, not because of something out of our control, but because we choose to.  That we should be able to switch identities at a whim.

Some say that we shouldn't care what others do to themselves.  Michael argues otherwise.  We should protect against people getting hurt, committing suicide, dismembering their bodies, etc.

What is the world coming to?  How should we live in this world?  Are there values, ethics, right and wrong that we need to protect?  Or can people have the right to do to themselves anything they like - even to the point of maiming or killing themselves?

I would lump issues of abortion together with this.  Should people be allowed to kill foetii because of unwanted pregnancies?  What of the lives of the young?  is that murder?

Surely, people have the right to decide some things about their own bodies, eg. to cloth ourselves and to keep ourselves healthy.  This is probably a responsibility too.  But how much right should we have?  Can we really do anything we like with the bodies that our God has given us?