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Title: Constitutional Amendment to Protect the Transgendered?
Post by: LostInTime on November 28, 2007, 08:26:22 AM
Post by: LostInTime on November 28, 2007, 08:26:22 AM
Constitutional Amendment to Protect the Transgendered?
FrontPage Magazine
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=A94B4C48-E623-4533-9BF9-D38F67868FDD
By Deborah Weiss
Even if the amendment were modified to read "women" rather than "sex", it is unclear how "women" would be interpreted. Genetically male transsexuals who undergo surgery to become female, still retain male chromosomes. Though male at birth, they elect to have "sex-reassignment surgery" to "correct" mind-body dissonance. Hermaphrodites who do not get corrective surgery ("intersexuals"), also do not fall neatly into one category of sex.
FrontPage Magazine
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=A94B4C48-E623-4533-9BF9-D38F67868FDD
By Deborah Weiss
Even if the amendment were modified to read "women" rather than "sex", it is unclear how "women" would be interpreted. Genetically male transsexuals who undergo surgery to become female, still retain male chromosomes. Though male at birth, they elect to have "sex-reassignment surgery" to "correct" mind-body dissonance. Hermaphrodites who do not get corrective surgery ("intersexuals"), also do not fall neatly into one category of sex.
Title: Re: Constitutional Amendment to Protect the Transgendered?
Post by: Sheila on November 28, 2007, 01:29:20 PM
Post by: Sheila on November 28, 2007, 01:29:20 PM
Also, how about Title IX-"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of gender, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be sujected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance"-With this it seems that we do have ENDA for places in the government and those businesses that receive federal funds. We all have a gender, right?
Sheila
Sheila