Damoshe – read it again, and not excerpts quoted by the deranged Mike moskowitz. The surgery was done on a baby with GENETIC ANOMALIES, not people who have mental health delusions about their gender. It never dawned on him, or anyone else in his time, even goyim, to change a biologically normal person into the opposite gender.
Read dor tahapuchos. Please do. You’ve read some truly poisonous garbage online from apikorsim and it’s affected you l.
And please, if you’re anywhere near as comfortable talking about this with rabbi bender as you are online, ask him if there’s an iota of source for such a thing, and if that person can marry a man.
Re, debate – it’s not the job of 16 year olds to deal with Torah issues from a secular perspective in order to do kiruv. Also, the starting point is that such things are possible – wrenching a moral issue out of its morality and talking about it from a sociological standpoint is disgraceful to the Moral Authority who dictates it.
Also, they’re not being given a seminar on how to discuss the issue with non frum people. They’re being told to argue both sides and treat them equally. That’s effectively telling teenagers tbat there is a valid side to breaking the 6th commandment.
Would you be comfortable with teenagers researching the positions of Holocaust deniers, and having one side try to prove the Holocaust was a hoax, in order to prepare them for discussions with confused people?