:blush: Thanks!

Does the seat stay up?

I can solve this confusion about male-female identity. If the kid has a penis, he goes to the boys room. If not, the girls room.

This sounds simple enough. But, what about when a baby is born with inditinct genetalia, and the doctors make a cosmetic alteration to assign a gender? And what if they assign the wrong gender? This goes to the heart of the "there is no medical reason that he should be considered a girl" argument. What if he really is a girl, that has been arbitrarily assigned the male gender?

This happens to a large number of people, and the subject is so socially awkward that nobody even knows that it exists. That same social awkwardness is the reason that the parents/doctors decide to assign a gender to an infant who can't possibly consent to such a procedure.

We assume that gender is a either/or attribute, but it isn't. And we don't know how to react when the lines are blurred.
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Thread drift: Another possible outcome of the confusing-gender baby scenario is that the doctors chop off part of the clitoris, to make it look "normal" - and the child grows up to be a female that has no capacity to enjoy a normal sexual exprience. Essentially, this is a form of genital mutilation that people believe happens only in "other" places.

Did that happen to you, Flint?


I'm so sorry.

No, I read about it a long time ago in an article in the New Yorker, so I don't have an internet source to site conveniently.

This was mentioned on the first page of this thread, and I'm the only one who responded to it. After that, the person who posted it went psycho.

sexual enjoyment would only get her into trouble anyway. can't trust her with that kind of temptation.

Bad day?

nah, just sarcasm. had a knuckledragger in the lunchroom guffawing about how the study concluding some women don't have a g spot. of course, he'd find it and if he couldn't find it they were obviously rug munchers. that of course led into his bitch of an ex wife cheating on him. she wasn't woman enough for him or some such shit. bring on the chastity belts, blahblahblah.

And are you proposing to demand they prove it before entering?

In an extreme case, such a stance could lead to a little boy mutilating his own genitalia to become the girl he feels he should be. Would you then just chalk him up as a sicko the world is better off without?

The school's actions cause no harm to anyone. If they demanded that he behave like a boy, it could.

Wearing a pair of pants and peeing in the boys room is not demanding he act like a boy. He can play with dolls, hand with the girls, read girls books and swap beauty tips for all anybody cares.

He isn't wanting to 'act like a girl' he feels he is a girl.

feeling like i'm the king of england doesn't make it so. somehow my dna didn't line up in the right order for that.

And if the kid felt he was the king of England, the school should have no problem treating him as such. Future monarchs are treated just like everyone else in school. Except for the bodyguard thing. Which is not paid for by the school. Presumably it would be the same for reigning achild monarchs these days, although in the old days, child monarch were "home-schooled" :lol:

This is true. However, a transgender person actually IS the the other sex. They were just born with the wrong body.