But, but, but, Thatâs Unnatural!
How can you go against nature like that, letting babies whose developmental trajectories caused them to end up with ambiguous genitalia just remain the way they developed? Only aggressive medical intervention, ideally heteronormative, can possibly be what nature intended!
Really happy to see some more open minded science based policies coming from countries these days - however, should you want to remind yourself of the closed minded idiots that populate this earth, take a look at some of the user comments on the BBC article. Makes me sad that does.
I wish the BBC just kept their comments closed - they rarely open up a topic to conversation, and whenever they do itâs rather coincidently on controversial topics - and rather oddly they tend to get filled to the brim with YouTube-esk grunting, and even more oddly get down-voted to oblivion. Itâs like the BBC comments section is filled with loud idiots and silent academics.
I understand click bait and flame bait, and their function on a website. The BBC has literally no purpose for either (unless they show ads to people outside of the UK?).
(I couldnât resist, I had a peek. They actually looked pretty progressive when I looked, maybe they changed - Iâve certainly seen MUCH worse examples of commentary on the BBC)
Furthermore, it is not mentioned at all in Leviticus, and is therefore contrary to Godâs Will.
This is great for folks with ambiguous sex at birth. It horrifies me so much surgery is done to âcorrectâ interex genital presentation.
I think the worst got moderated - some people openly alluding to support for what amounted to eugenics, a fair few âitâs not natural [read: it doesnât say that in the Bible]â and the usual bigotry. I think after a few of those type of posts more people came in defending and supporting the change, so some people at least appear to have commented intelligently.
For those with indeterminate physical genitalia, this is a good thing. But what about those with one or the other physically-expressed sexuality, but abnormal sexual genetics (XXYs for example). Those individual have issues that show up later in life. . . This only seems to address those with immediately evident gross deviation from the generic phenotype. . .
Is that the section where they genetically engineer sheep by making them look at colored sticks? I can never keep them straightâŚ
Also, I believe anything contrary to Godâs Will is Obamaâs fault.
So what do you want? All newborns checked out genetically so your desire for consistency can be officially satisfied on the record? Subject those children to whatever parental and medical crazy overtakes them before the kid can even begin to develop? Would be great, if it would result in those kids getting treated better, but I donât see that happening. People are still people, and will continue to do stuid and cruel things, no matter what is written on a piece of paper somewhere.
I donât have a prob with hermaphrodites being listed as such, except for the fact that there needs to be a way to alter the records later and burn the original, if a dominant gender is determined and acheived. Itâs not cool to officially saddle these kids with that history. They already have enough problems. Whatâs the goal, anyway? Saddles them with a bunch of researchersâ ambitions? What?
Alice, the term for people is âintersex.â Thanks.
The term for people is âpeopleâ. I used no improper or inaccurate words, though you are certainly welcome to use whichever ones you prefer.
Whether you think you used improper words or not, itâs kind of shitty to go around calling intersex people âhermaphrodites.â This (thankfully!) isnât SNL or the 1950s. (You can check with the Intersex Society of North America or start on Wikipedia if youâd like to do some reading. I recall that GLAAD used to have this in their media reference guide as well.)
Actually, no. The German law apparently allows âXâ at birth: it does not APPEAR to deal with issues discovered later, thatâs all. . .
Sounds slightly better, put that way. Forgive me if Iâm just a little mistrustful of government moves these daysâŚI keep finding so very little that is done to actually benefit the people themselves.
Milady, what do you expect from politics ?
Consider the origin of the word:
âpoliâ - Greek root-word, meaning âmanyâ
âticksâ - small blood-sucking vermin.
This topic was automatically closed after 9 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
This topic was automatically closed after 9 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
