Posted on 05/26/2015 2:30:47 PM PDT by rickmichaels
The precise nature of words matters. The imprecise use of a word that has a very specific meaning can make the difference between an alleged injustice and a complete waste of newsprint and everyone’s time, including that of activists.
We have a perfect example of this phenomenon in the case of Morgane Oger, chair of the B.C. Trans Alliance Society, who, not satisfied with provincial and federal governments allowing sex designations to be changed on key identity documents, “wants to abolish gender references altogether from birth certificates.” The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is reviewing her complaint.
But the offence does not exist. There are no “gender references” on birth certificates. What there are on birth certificates is certification of the baby’s sex based on the objective fact of male or female genitalia. Whether that baby turns out to be heterosexual, homosexual or transgender will not be revealed for some years, but even when it is revealed, that baby will still have grown up as a child of the male or female sex.
Sex is an objective biological fact. Gender is a subjective psychological feeling. Some children who are biologically male identify as the opposite sex and vice versa, because they “feel trapped in the wrong body.” Psychologically trapped or not, the body remains the biological sex that it is until – and many would argue not even then, including some radical feminists – the genitalia are surgically altered.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
Sex = Biology
Gender = Imagination
See my tagline—Shamelessly borrowed from my old physiology professor.
Sex: People and animals have it.
Gender: Romance language words have it.
Ethnicity is an objective biological fact.
Race is a subjective psychological feeling.
As a proud member of the NACP I know this well.
I like that and you should now consider it stolen to be added to my Grammar Ninja tool belt!
They will be moving to modify the DNA too, before long(;
Wrong! Don't buy the lie. Sex and Gender are the same thing. Sinful sexual preference is different. Sinful sexual preference is not gender.
It is not a lie. The information in the post is absolutely correct.
I remember when sex and gender meant the same thing.
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