Letters to the Editor: Anti-trans Republicans are foolishly trying to legislate

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Letters to the Editor: Anti-trans Republicans are foolishly trying to legislate biological 'truth'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-anti-trans-republicans-are-foolishly-trying-to-legislate-biological-truth/ar-BB1jSlrb?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=0abcd9ee80734b96bd6c6e4ce120ef7e&ei=15

LA Times (14 March 2024)

To the editor: Proposals to legally define sex as binary — thus officially marginalizing an estimated 1.3 million transgender adults in the United States — are reminiscent of the misguided 19th century attempt by the Indiana General Assembly to, in effect, legislate the value of the mathematical constant pi.

That attempt to assert the value of pi by legislative fiat was scuttled when it was observed that the General Assembly lacked the power to define mathematical truth.

In the 21st century, it is as plainly irrational to contend that gender is binary as it is to posit that the value of pi is rational, as was attempted not so long ago. We are in a sorry state of affairs when we have given inexpert legislators the power to define biological "truth."