Technically, then, I'm no longer female. I'm pretty sure I'm not producing ova. If peri- or postmenopausal women aren't women anymore, how many sperm do older men have to produce to get married?
Then there are Turner's Syndrome women born with no eggies or the wherewithal to produce them. Adolescence has to be induced. I don't remember how well it works.
There are men born with androgen insensitivity syndrome, which means they're XY but look like XX. They're just raised as female. I forget how well that works, too.
Then there are those born with ambiguous genitalia. Doctors pick a gender and assign at will.
And little slip-up during cicumcision. (cringe) Well, that gets you automatically transsexed. Or used to. I don't know what they do now.
I'm just remembering from a book I read 20+yrs ago.
My point is that these problems are nothing a newborn can have chosen, and if we're going to deny infertile people the right to marry when they find love, based purely on that, we're a truly sick culture. But I knew that already. Preach to choir. Rant concluded.
And then there's the judge's name. O Beowulf monsterlike.
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anniemal.livejournal.com at 06:11am on 2004-03-04
Then there are Turner's Syndrome women born with no eggies or the wherewithal to produce them. Adolescence has to be induced. I don't remember how well it works.
There are men born with androgen insensitivity syndrome, which means they're XY but look like XX. They're just raised as female. I forget how well that works, too.
Then there are those born with ambiguous genitalia. Doctors pick a gender and assign at will.
And little slip-up during cicumcision. (cringe) Well, that gets you automatically transsexed. Or used to. I don't know what they do now.
I'm just remembering from a book I read 20+yrs ago.
My point is that these problems are nothing a newborn can have chosen, and if we're going to deny infertile people the right to marry when they find love, based purely on that, we're a truly sick culture. But I knew that already. Preach to choir. Rant concluded.
And then there's the judge's name. O Beowulf monsterlike.