Is it a boy or a girl?

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actually him liking barbies and playing with girls (not the right way) is an inidcator he might be homosexual.

Well, he also might be transsexual ...
or he just doesn' fit into gender stereotypes

[rah]

AN op-ed piece by LEONARD PITTS, JR.sums up my feelings on the subject

I have, after all, long taken great pride in supporting LGBTQ freedom. Marriage equality, adoption rights, job protections, I have demanded them. Restroom ID laws, “don’t ask, don’t tell” and so-called “religious freedom” measures, I have fought them.

But in the notion of a genderless humanity we arrive at the proverbial bridge too far. Yes, I know some people are born anatomically neither male nor female. I’m not talking about them.

Nor have I any beef with the child born into a male body who feels emotionally estranged from that body and takes steps, whether surgical or cosmetic, to rectify the problem. Good for him. And her.

What I have trouble with is the idea that we somehow commit a sin against enlightenment when we identify that baby’s body as male in the first place. What I find problematic is the notion that we should look upon this child with his XY chromosome and a little stub of flesh between his legs that will someday be capable of producing sperm, and pretend we have no idea what he is.

I’m sorry, but that’s just silly.

I am reminded of those people who would end racial prejudice by having us all claim to be “colorblind,” i.e., pretend we don’t see race. But prejudice doesn’t come because we “notice” so-and-so is black. Rather, it comes with the assumptions we attach to that fact.

Similarly, the question here is not whether Searyl is a boy or girl. No, the question is, What will we assume that either one means?

So it seems to me the energy some are putting into denying the reality of infant genitalia would be better spent trying to assure that it means as little as possible, trying to create a society where girls who play with trucks and boys who play with dolls are as free as any other children to construct their own lives and identities according to their own design. Fight the sociology — not the biology. I tend to think Searyl would thank us for that.

The English language would, too.

[tedace]

That's not the problem about the the toys. But how about social life, doctor visits, any procedures with documents, military service, insurance, etc? I think there could be only the problems for the whole life.

[rah]

The parents have made the decision for their child that he will not be allowed to live a normal life. The child didn't get a choice, which seems similar to what the parents were trying to do. Maybe in the future it won't matter, but it still does.

[giblets]

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That's not the problem about the the toys. But how about social life, doctor visits, any procedures with documents, military service, insurance, etc? I think there could be only the problems for the whole life.