ChrisL
Diamond Member
And what is a person's sex at birth, especially when we pick for them?Have you written and published your findings in a medical journal yet?
I don't have to. Doctors already have.
Definition of transgender
- : of, relating to, or being a person (as a transsexual or transvestite) who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth
Dear Jack4jill ChrisL and Lilah
I can see Chris is going by the legal definition, as in Texas, which recognizes what is on the birth certificate.
Jack4jill you are arguing similarly to the Right to Life people who recognize human rights at conception,
while laws may recognize them at BIRTH.
Chris and Jack you would have to agree which realm you are going to frame this in.
Otherwise you will go in circles as legalistic liberals who are going by what the law says literally
versus what other sources are used to define things outside that framework.
Agree on a framework first.
Or take turns, discuss how this plays out using the legal definition of gender based on either
birth certificate or if doctors confirm someone passes as female after going through procedures.
Now on the side of ChrisL's argument
it has been argued that in sports, people who are transgender female have an unfair advantage
in some sports over females who are born female.
So it is argued that it is not fully fair to allow a MMA fight between a former man who can still
BREAK THE JAW of a female who wasn't born male and then changed.
This fits ChrisL's argument that no matter how much you change physically to female
there are going to be some things that are still male.
NOTE: there is at least one case of a male giving birth using female organs that were still there.
On Jack's side of the argument, if you want to pick the genes apart,
you can show it isn't clear cut XX or XY only.
This again shows the issue is not purely genetic.
We'd likely have to agree to rely on biologically what doctors will confirm is the
person's predominant gender, and go with that definition.
In the case of the man who gave birth, this father identifies as male,
dresses and presents as male, so was considered male.
If you take that argument on a national or worldwide audience, of course people would debate it.
what matters is if the couple has an agreement with their immediate community
how they want to be identified and treated. I recommend keeping this issues
local, where there is a better chance of resolving them. Rather than trying to
make a global issue of them, where as Chris and Jack show here, there are
too many different frames of reference, and people won't even agree where to start.
Of course you are going to argue in circles if you don't even agree on a common context.
Jack4jill if that is your point, that is clear from your exchange with Chris
that this is impossible to resolve without a common framework.
However, your insistence on calling her names like D B does not help
but distracts and discredits the good points you were trying to make.
I can hear what you are sharing, becuase I know ChrisL is NO D B.
She is very sharp and willing to discuss things very deeply, so I know better.
But your language made you look bad, when you had very good points.
Please don't let that get in the way of what you are trying to say!
Thanks Emily, for not thinking I'm a "D B." Lol.
She or he does not have any good points. This person is trying to equate genetic anomalies with transgenderism. Transgenders have normal sex organs and no genetic anomalies.
Stop it, already.
Stop what? Posting facts? No, I will not.