Sunday, January 15, 2012
Girl Scouts Get It Right, Trigger Reaction
posted by JimK at 10:27 AM
http://vigilance.teachthefacts.org/2012/01/girl-scouts-get-it-right-trigger.htmlIt's Sunday morning, I've got a full pot of coffee, WPFW is on, the dogs have been out, and I am thinking about the Girl Scouts' acceptance of transgender girls and the firestorm it provoked.
You don't have to know a whole lot to respect someone's differences from you, but in this case it is probably useful to review some concepts. When you are born the doctor holds you up and looks you over and decides that you are a boy or a girl, based on visible anatomical features. This information is entered on your birth certificate and becomes a basic fact about your life from that moment forward. For most people this is never a problem, but some small proportion of individuals discover over time that the initial assignment just doesn't fit them. The sense of gender does not just come from what you have been told about yourself, it also derives from the immediate, subjective way you feel. It may seem odd to believe you are one sex when your physical body indicates otherwise, but if you talk to someone who has experienced this you realize they aren't joking, they aren't hallucinating, this is real for them, they know what they are and it is not what that first pediatrician said they were.
part two
http://vigilance.teachthefacts.org/2012/01/oh-those-evil-girl-scouts-part-ii.html
