Sex, Identity and Gender, Oh My!

[Natasha]

Sex, Identity and Gender, Oh My!

http://www.ts-si.org/thompson-&-gaughan/30757-sex-identity-and-gender-oh-my
7/10/11
Lisa Thompson & Sharon Gaughan   

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) defined gender identity as the gender-related identity, appearance, or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth. This attempt at redefinition appears to describe the entire human species in one form or another without actually defining anything. Courts of Law frown on vague definition and most often find such laws overbroad and therefore unconstitutional.

ENDA failed to receive enough votes to become law. But at least the ENDA definition made some sense, even if it was logically non-definitional. A local, liberal state attempted to define Gender Identity as

    A person's bona fide, persistent, documented identification with the sex opposite her or his physiology or assigned sex at birth


effectively making Gender Identity a queer human attribute not possessed by the heterosexual population. This is scientific illiteracy at its political worst. Gender Identity is a human state, not one reserved for queer politics. Most people identify with one sex or the other — most often the one assigned at birth.

[Pinkfluff]

Yeah most people seem to think that "gender identity" only means people who live with atypical anatomy. Really everyone has a "gender identity", which is the same as the gender they are (and that is not necessarily the same as what they were assigned).