Free secular societies don't care who is boffing who as long as all are consenting adults.Originally Posted by pinkytoe
But theocracies have a shit fit about people doing gay stuff. God no likey the guy on guy action.
And secular totalitarians -- who make themselves into national gods -- need scapegoats and minorities to vilify. It keeps the sheeple from focusing on real issues, like civil liberties.
As I understand it, the idea is to define gender "on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable", as opposed to the variable definition instituted by the previous administration. I'm unclear how this throws anyone to the wolves.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
People get sex change operations and then the law says that they cannot use the bathrooms etc for their new gender.
Once you get a bias involved, science is mutable. You can get some scientist somewhere to say anything you want, IMO.
It wasn't so long ago that doctors just arbitrarily assigned genders to intersex babies; they may still be doing it. Some of the stories emerging around this are tragic. Science is a tool, sometimes a blunt one.
And i’m not surprised that you don’t understand.
I have little faith that the administration, given their commitment to scientific integrity, will actually dig deeply enough to formulate something fair and reasonable.
For instance, I have odd genetics, and both male and female sexual components. You can see it in the DNA, or with intimate physical examination. Some decades ago, I might simply have been aborted, or "assigned" a gender at birth through surgery without my consent.
The article claims: "The agency’s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by The Times.". This does not to me to be a policy based in scientific reality.
How does the government, in its infinite wisdom, account for endocrine abnormalities or genetic chimerism, for example? I suspect this is another of Trump's edicts designed primarily to torment people.
As does my grandson with Klinefelter Syndrome, or 47,XXY. He is sterile, does not produce testosterone as a typical male should and has a micro-penis and slightly enlarged breasts but he is definitely a boy. Interestingly enough, some medical researchers believe that George Washington was also a 47 XXY as he had all the physical characteristics (history is thankfully ignorant on the micro-penis part) and had no known offspring, although there is no question that he was also a male.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
Now often parents of these babies are no longer encouraged to pick a gender and do surgery but to wait and see which sex the child acts like, etc so the correct gender is chosen. Many heartbreaking stories when surgery was done on babies.
Indeed. A friend of mine had to, as an adult, sue her childhood doctors to get her medical records. She found out that the "stomach" surgery she had when she was 3 was genital modification surgery and she went from being Charlie to being Cheryl and her family moved to a new town shortly after that. She went on to found the Intersex Society of North America. They put together an interesting documentary with a group of intersex individuals talking about their life experiences. They mostly seemed to have been deeply traumatized by their experiences. The one exception, a woman in her early 20's, had avoided that fate because her intersexness had not been discovered by someone else when she was young, but instead, was discovered by herself as a teenager. Because of this she had never gone through the trauma of unwanted surgery. She has both a penis and a vagina and identifies as female. I have no idea what her chromosomes would say she is under the administration's proposal.
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