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Wrong. There are many intersex conditions. Life is not just black and white, male and female, no matter how you "feel" about it.
Intersex is a birth anomaly and doesn't create a different gender. There are two biological sexes and two genders. There are anomalies within the biology of sex and there are different gender expressions, but there are only two genders.
Intersex is a birth anomaly and doesn't create a different gender. There are two biological sexes and two genders. There are anomalies within the biology of sex and there are different gender expressions, but there are only two genders.
What percent of the population has this birth anomaly ?
Maybe you better move if you don't like the new law- Texans elected these officials so it is obvious they support them and the laws they pass - hopefully you liberal and progressive will leave the state and move to calif or elsewhere
you generally are born as either a male (y-chrome) or female(x-chrome)
if a person born as a male (y-chrome) says he ""feels"" he is a woman in a mans body (trans-gender) who still looks like a man, has not has his external member cut off, then he is still a man.......if he was to walk into a woman's' restroom and he exposed himself (to go to the bathroom) it opens up a heck of a can of worms to sexual harassment (especially in today, when even 'catcalls' are considered harassment )
I think they should re-word the law....get rid of the Birth certificate, and simple state if you are physically still a male (you still have the male organs, and have not transformed to a female through the surgeries), you will use the men's room
nothing wrong with the law, nothing against the LGBT community...its just common sense, maybe a rewording
You don't "transform" to a female. You undergo plastic surgery and hormone therapy in order to pass as the female GENDER in society. The most ridiculous thing about this whole "there are not just two genders" is that those who seek to "transgender" are seeking to create the illusion of being the opposite gender. No one engages in transition to become "gender fluid" or "gender *****" or "gender non binary." The fact that they cannot even see the failure of their foundational argument is pretty telling.
You can add and/or remove all you want to on yourself, but you cannot change your DNA.
Did you even bother reading the entire article? It speaks of legislators adding amendments to pending legislation that go far beyond students using rest-rooms that match the gender on their birth certificates and would other forms of discrimination.
Did you actually bother reading the amendments? I did. Nothing to see here unless you are an SJW Gender warrior that likes to create fear and agitation among your fellow warriors.
Because we can read. Maybe you should try it. There is a link in the OP, literally describe a bill giving nurses permission to deny services to LGBTQ people.
And yet, you have no idea what the actual bill says because you are happy to accept what HuffPo tells you it says.
Morality IS relative. Ex: female genital mutilation is moral to some people while it is a barbaric act to most.
These "religious freedom" laws will open up a Pandora's box.
How long will it take for the Mormon prophet to have a "revelation" that the Mormons need to practice polygamy?
The Muslims will claim religious freedom to have four wives too and the "right" to have Sharia law supersede local laws.
It would be a mess.
Some religious groups are out of control.
Morality IS NOT relative. Slavery was legal, it was never moral. Female genital mutilation is not moral. There are universal truths and one of them is, morality is NOT relative!
Probably won't be upheld in the Supreme Court, which is where it'll eventually be headed if it passes. If any of this allows state-sponsored discrimination by state employees (article mentions public schools), that definitely won't be upheld thanks to the 14th Amendment.
You know that the amendment speaks to the Freedom of Speech, right? and that a teacher was bullied into removing a Peanuts Christmas Poster in Public school because it had a biblical reference, right? So you understand that this law doesn't mean that gay kids can't go to school and receive an education, right?
I agree with this. Medical professionals should be held to a higher standard - one that more closely models this specific part of the Hippocratiic Oath:
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. Above all, I must not play at God.
Which means that no health care provider should be forced to murder a child. Sounds like this law and the Oath are aligned nicely!
I have a niece who is both a gay and Christian activist.
No, she is a gay activist seeking to redefine Judeo-Christian scripture.
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