Ex Gay Watch Blog Entry: The Scientific Problem With Sex Dichotomies

[LostInTime]

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When thinking about the belief systems of religious conservatives like Ensley and Dalton, we need to ask what exactly makes a man a man and a woman a woman. Is it genitalia? Is it genetics? Or can it be arbitrary — is a person's sex what the gender marker says it is on a person's birth certificate? The vast majority of people fit into the standard biological dichotomy of male and female, but defining all people as either biologically male or female is equivalent to saying all people are heterosexual. While it's true that the vast majority of people are heterosexual, it's not true that all are heterosexual.

Dr. Vilain, in the previously referenced Los Angeles Times article, gives a history of the difficultly one can experience trying to rigidly define male and female based on biology:
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[Hazumu]

Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell's spokesperson (Tucker Martin), during debate of the recently approved marriage initiative in Virginia, discussed infant sexing and sex markers on birth certificates with the Daily Press:

Whatever sex is recorded on a child's birth certificate is that person's legal sex for the rest of his or her life, under state law, Martin said.

    If the sex is ambiguous or indeterminate, the parents - in consultation with the doctor - decides what sex is recorded on the birth certificate. "The state has no say there," Martin said.

Please deliver us from this attitude...

Karen

[cindianna_jones]

Yea, verily, you are delivered.

We can tell the world about ourselves.  More people are listening.

Cindi