by ROB3RT on March 22, 2025 4:23 pm
Meagain:
I agree. In a world in which there can be 72 genders, gender identify can be a complicated thing.
Did you know that there are people, born male, who as adults have not taken any hormones or had any surgery (meaning they still have a penis and get erections), who identify as female? Maybe they have a handlebar mustache or a beard. But since they identify as women, and they are attracted to women, they consider themselves lesbians. And they get angry at real lesbians (born female) who won't sleep with them, and they refer to this barrier as the "cotton ceiling" (check out Wikipedia link below).
That's how ridiculous gender identity is. It means anything you want it to mean, to justify anything you want do or get. There are people who consider themselves gender fluid, which means they may feel like using a men's restroom before lunch and a ladies restroom after.
How do you tell a gender-fluid "lesbian" with an erection that "she" does not belong in a women's restroom, a women's locker room, a women's spa, or on a women's sports team.
It's complicated, right?
I have an easier solution. How about we use the scientific definition of sex as the baseline organizing principle? Under this system, we recognize that males produce the small gamete -- and display secondary sexual characteristics such as a penis, testicles -- while females produce the large gamete and display secondary sexual characteristics as ovaries, vaginas, mammary glands and so on. Using this as the guideline, it's much easier to determine who should use which restroom, locker room, prison, spa or sports league.
Let's make it really simple. If you have a penis, you belong in the male group (restroom, locker room, sports team, if you have a vagina, you belong in the women's group. If you're confused, use the unisex "family" restroom. This makes it a lot easier, doesn't it?
Gender identify may be complicated, but it's also irrelevant to most of the decisions we need to make.
en.wikipedia.org
by meagain on March 23, 2025 8:02 am
Interesting commentary!
