Gender is eternal...

[Harry Tic]

Sometimes kids get a sex-change operation just to piss off their parents. It's basically just a phase, like getting a tattoo or listening to Pat Boone records ironically.

[RC Vikings]

I thought this issue was already addressed. Was there a sprinter or track and field competitor that is transgender? I thought there was some talk about changing the rule that says you have to compete with your birth sex (in order to keep male-born transgenders from competing against women)

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[Pelado]

Sometimes kids get a sex-change operation just to piss off their parents. It's basically just a phase, like getting a tattoo or listening to Pat Boone records ironically.

That's what my brother sister did.

[Northwestcoug]

Sometimes kids get a sex-change operation just to piss off their parents. It's basically just a phase, like getting a tattoo or listening to Pat Boone records ironically.

That's right. I mean, who of us can deny flirting with the idea of a sex change during our formative years? Amiright?

[TripletDaddy]

This issue is very similar to those people who want to have their arms cut off. They all need to see a psychiatrist.

[creekster]

This issue is very similar to those people who want to have their arms cut off. They all need to see a psychiatrist.

Face it, we all need a psychiatrist, whether we want to cut something off or not.

[Uncle Ted]

As many as 1% or 70 million people walking the planet today could be eternally some gender than is a combination of male and female...

Sex redefined


The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.

As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation about sex.


A 46-year-old pregnant woman had visited his clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia to hear the results of an amniocentesis test to screen her baby's chromosomes for abnormalities. The baby was fine — but follow-up tests had revealed something astonishing about the mother. Her body was built of cells from two individuals, probably from twin embryos that had merged in her own mother's womb. And there was more. One set of cells carried two X chromosomes, the complement that typically makes a person female; the other had an X and a Y. Halfway through her fifth decade and pregnant with her third child, the woman learned for the first time that a large part of her body was chromosomally male. “That's kind of science-fiction material for someone who just came in for an amniocentesis,” says James.

Sex can be much more complicated than it at first seems. According to the simple scenario, the presence or absence of a Y chromosome is what counts: with it, you are male, and without it, you are female. But doctors have long known that some people straddle the boundary — their sex chromosomes say one thing, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) or sexual anatomy say another. Parents of children with these kinds of conditions — known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (DSDs) — often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl. Some researchers now say that as many as 1 person in 100 has some form of DSD.
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http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943


I wonder the pregnant man mentioned in this article can receive the priesthood given that he is more man than woman.

[Harry Tic]

As many as 1% or 70 million people walking the planet today could be eternally some gender than is a combination of male and female...


http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943


I wonder the pregnant man mentioned in this article can receive the priesthood given that he is more man than woman.

If he were to be, say, 75% chromosomally male, it stands to reason that the ordinances he performs would be 75% efficacious. If 60%, then 60%. And so on.

Once he drops below 50%, we have problems.

[creekster]

If he were to be, say, 75% chromosomally male, it stands to reason that the ordinances he performs would be 75% efficacious. If 60%, then 60%. And so on.

Once he drops below 50%, we have problems.

So it's sex and not gender that matters?

[Uncle Ted]

If he were to be, say, 75% chromosomally male, it stands to reason that the ordinances he performs would be 75% efficacious. If 60%, then 60%. And so on.

Once he drops below 50%, we have problems.

Good to know... I was afraid that the rule would be something like if someone has one drop of blood of the female type then they would be out of the club.

[Uncle Ted]

So it's sex and not gender that matters?

I think that Wuap would approve if the title of this thread was changed to "Sex is eternal..."

[Solon]

I thought this issue was already addressed. Was there a sprinter or track and field competitor that is transgender? I thought there was some talk about changing the rule that says you have to compete with your birth sex (in order to keep male-born transgenders from competing against women)

https://books.google.com/books?id=buIzAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA443&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=f alse


I knew that MWS article was BS when I read the phrase "vice a versa".

[Moliere]

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Am I transphobic if I think this person being questioned is an idiot?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Am I transphobic if I think this person being questioned is an idiot?

I hope not.

[USUC]

The logical fallacies inherent in her response makes my head hurt. Why can't there be an honest and nuanced discussion here. To be sure, Hawley is a jackass culture warrior. But they don't have to lob under handed softballs at him.