I sent out an email with this article a bit ago and then realized that I should have posted it instead (not sure what I was thinking). That way you can comment on here if you want instead of sending reply emails. Here's the article in case you didn't get it before. Take a look at it. Pretty interesting. Now, if I can decide to be a woman, even without any physiological female characteristics--just a real belief that I am one (such as the person pictured here)--why can't I decide to be, say, a chimpanzee. Seems fair so long as I act like one for two years and get a doc to sign off on it....will they change my birth certificate for me...
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I think that my birth certificate DOES say chimpanzee... I'll have to check.
I believe we did always introduce you as our pet did we not?
Wow, this is pretty serious. I especially love these 2 statements:
"Transgender advocates consider the New York proposal an overdue bulwark against discrimination that recognizes an emerging shift away from viewing gender as simply the sum of one’s physical parts."
and
"a string of advocates and transsexuals suggested that common definitions of gender, especially its reliance on medical assessments, should be abandoned."
My question is, how exactly does one live "in their adopted gender"? I know we always use things like clothing and appearances as an INDICATION of gender, but I don't see how they're a DEFINITION of gender.
What do we do with a man that is feminine, but not interested in being "re-classified" as a woman? I'm afraid my long-favored tradition of dressing up as girl for the Farmington Elementary Halloween parade has come to and end. I couldn't stand seeing my children grow up without a father, if some government official perchance attended the parade and turned me in. Of course, I could always take secret photos of Nat when she borrows my shirts, and get her switched over to balance it out.
Hey, is that a "for real" article we're talking about here? I seriously thought it to be so far out that it had to be a hoax or something. New York always did scare me! (And I think my kids always did scare me---and after viewing these recent pics, I'm sure of it!).
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