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Title: A biological storm is brewing over the West's genderless future
Post by: Butterfly on June 10, 2011, 11:56:07 AM
Post by: Butterfly on June 10, 2011, 11:56:07 AM
A biological storm is brewing over the West's genderless future
The Australian
By Angela Shanahan
11 June, 2011
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-biological-storm-is-brewing-over-the-wests-genderless-future/story-fn562txd-1226072982053 (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-biological-storm-is-brewing-over-the-wests-genderless-future/story-fn562txd-1226072982053)
A COUPLE of weeks ago we were treated to a strange and startling story on the front page of this newspaper. A couple in Ontario, Canada, decided to rear their child as "genderless".
Ironically, the unfortunate infant subject of this bizarre experiment has been given the name Storm. The parents' decision has not, in this country, been seriously discussed and is easily dismissed as the post-partum politically correct zeal of new parents.
However, to dismiss it would be equally silly. It is no accident that this has happened in Canada. The former home of the lumberjacks is a hotbed of crazy minority gender politics, and its ultra-liberal approach to gay marriage and other sexual issues made it a template for lobby groups in other Western parliamentary democracies -- Australia being one.
The Australian
By Angela Shanahan
11 June, 2011
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-biological-storm-is-brewing-over-the-wests-genderless-future/story-fn562txd-1226072982053 (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-biological-storm-is-brewing-over-the-wests-genderless-future/story-fn562txd-1226072982053)
A COUPLE of weeks ago we were treated to a strange and startling story on the front page of this newspaper. A couple in Ontario, Canada, decided to rear their child as "genderless".
Ironically, the unfortunate infant subject of this bizarre experiment has been given the name Storm. The parents' decision has not, in this country, been seriously discussed and is easily dismissed as the post-partum politically correct zeal of new parents.
However, to dismiss it would be equally silly. It is no accident that this has happened in Canada. The former home of the lumberjacks is a hotbed of crazy minority gender politics, and its ultra-liberal approach to gay marriage and other sexual issues made it a template for lobby groups in other Western parliamentary democracies -- Australia being one.