Posted on 12/28/2007 9:48:54 PM PST by neverdem
"What will prevent the 250-pound linebacker from deciding he wants to share the locker room with the cheerleaders?"
Deconstructionist professors have been trying for years to convince us that gender is a social construct. Now, it seems, politicians and even employers are doing their best to put this theory into practice--2007 may go down in history as the year of the transgendered person.
Take the announcement in October that, under a state law that takes effect in January, schools in California not only can't discriminate by sex but also can't take into account "a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth." Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has just issued a similar order in her state, barring discrimination against state workers based on their "gender identity or expression." And members of Congress have been trying for several months to add crimes against the transgendered to the list of categories punishable under federal hate-crimes law.
The idea is that a person, though born with a particular anatomy, may not feel that it is the right one. He or she may choose to dress differently, use hormonal therapy or, at the extreme, adopt a surgical solution. As one such individual recently wrote to the San Francisco Bay Times: "My medical..."
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John Nemecek, a business professor at Spring Arbor University, an evangelical college in Michigan, was demoted earlier this year because he started wearing makeup and earrings and calling himself Julie. According to a March story in this newspaper, he was diagnosed by a doctor with "gender-identity disorder" and started hormone therapy. Prof. Nemecek has filed a complaint against the school with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "Essentially they're saying they can define who is a Christian," he has said...
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They're busy trying to sell Giuliani to the nation.
I always thought he looked like the Crypt-Keeper.
It makes me sad to see such a beautiful state with so many incredible people, be ridiculed unmercifully and so consistantly.
There must be a way to save it.
Nonsense. It is impossible to change one’s sex. They can cut, chop and shape and mold all they want, but it doesn’t change what a person is.
I’ve lived here for 54 of my 59 years. It is a beautiful state, but it has unfortunately become a de-facto province of Mexico. The far left is in control, and they are destroying it. There is no hope to save it. I never thought it would happen, but I am planning to leave California.
I have long believed that I was Napoleon Bonaparte. I’m glad that others are finally catching up with me.
What about trans-species? What if one "feels" he should be, say, a cocker spaniel, or a parrot, or a salamander?
Day after day, more people come to LA
Shhh! Don't you tell anybody that the whole place is slippin'away...
Where can we go when there's no San Francisco?
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho.
Day After Day, recorded by Shango, 1969
They're rootin for Rudy and hustlin' for Huckabee.
Get a psychiatrist to diagnose you with Ethnic Identity Disorder. Then go change your name to Sleep and Eat, go to work in Black Face and demand to use the Colored Only Rest Room. Also have the company inform the real Afican-American employees that they are to accept you as one of them.
They are doing the co ed thing in NJ too.
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