Why it's a big deal that Obama'nation said 'transgender'

Time ^ | 1/21/2015 | Katy Steinmetz

[NetAddicted]

Every word in every State of the Union speech is vetted. And President Barack Obama’s decision to say a certain word among the 6,718 he uttered on Tuesday is reverberating through the LGBT community. That’s because Obama just became the first President to say the word transgender during such a high-profile occasion. And most advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights are thrilled.

[MaxMax]

Sex has become a political freestyle gymnasium for Democrats.

[Autonomous User]

Obama is the 1st fag President....Head cheerleader and promoter of the ungendered species.

[coloradan]

What do you say to the tetragametic chimeras who have both fully XX and fully XY cells in their bodies? The embryos of two fraternal twins, a brother and a sister, merge early during gestation into one being, which then becomes our subject in question. Speaking of science.

The pictures are of different skin tones seen in black/white chimeras, but there also exist boy/girl chimeras.

[manc]

Not talking about birds nor is bozo.

These people are mentally sick, they are born either a male or a female and if they think they should be the opposite sex then so be it but it doe snot take away they have mental issues as does those who support this perversion.

[MrB]

c) looks pretty cool

[MrB]

Not everyone is born either as a male or as a female

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Got some numbers per 100,000 births?

[originalbuckeye]

The percentage of these is so low as to be insignificant. The occasional anomaly does not warrant the number of those who believe they were ‘born with the wrong body’. Chimeras exist but are astronomically rare. And, as you point out, they were two people who ‘accidentally’ merged. Not one person (originally).

[coloradan]

Not every is "born a boy" nor "born a girl." There exist people who have both XX and XY cells within their bodies - in significant numbers.

"A chimera (also spelled chimaera) (from the creature Chimera in Greek mythology) is a single organism composed of genetically distinct cells. This can result in male and female organs, two different blood types, or subtle variations in form.[1] " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_%28genetics%29

[coloradan]

Legally and practically they are one person. They are not surgically separable, unlike, say, some Siamese twins.

[originalbuckeye]

Practically applied, do you really believe Chimaerism is the reason for most ‘transgendered’ people?? Or do you believe, as most true and honest scientists do, that it is a personality disorder?

[Beagle8U]

Science has always acknowledged the existence of birth defects and freaks of nature, but they don’t say they are a new race or gender.

Saying a two headed chicken is normal doesn’t make it so.

[Gritty]

Does Moochelle fit in here anyplace or is she just a plain old overweight harpy?

[CatherineofAragon]

"Obama was very much anti-gay when he came into office. I remember, specifically, that he refused to do one, single interview with any gay magazine/newspaper/&c during his 2008 campaign. He stated specifically as well that he was fundamentally against gay marriage."

Of course---that was a facade to help him get elected. Then the gradual "evolution" of his viewpoint began. Don't kid yourself---Obama has always been pro-perversion.

"Obama is possibly our most craven President, ever. With no moral compass and very few core beliefs shared by fellow Americans."

He's much worse than that. He actively despises God, Israel, and America.

[manc]

er you do know we are talking about those who cross dress and want self mutilation right?

They are freaks with mental issues as are their supporters,

[Beagle8U]

“Male cardinals are red, females are white”

Huh? Female cardinals are brownish orange.

[manc]

LOL my thoughts too.

If anyone supports this cross dressing and self mutilation then they are as much nuts as those who do it.

[coloradan]

No, I’m sorry I don’t have any numbers. I’m not arguing they are common; in fact I believe they are rare, but they do exist. Something else I don’t know is the histogram of proportionality: how many are 50/50 vs. how many are 70/30 or even 99/1? It is quite possible that the 99/1’s present as “born a boy” or “born a girl,” but yet mentally the people are conflicted about their genders, especially if the 1% of other cells happen to be in their brains, where the thoughts of who you are as a person are formed. But this is speculation on my part, My point is that not everyone is born unambiguously as a boy or as a girl.

[Hugh the Scot]

That’s fascinating, but what possible relevance could it have in a discussion of “transgenderism”?

[longtermmemmory]

we are discussing humans who have ELECTED to live as the opposite gender. These are not clown fish.

humans which are birth defect of malformed parts born rarely live to puberty and rarely live to puberty and not past 20. That is why those humans have surgery to make one gender out of that mess. They are sterile.

That is directly medical. Obama was referencing a BEHAVIOR of dressing abnormally. IOW abnormal is normal. Very new speak.

[coloradan]

The word "normal" is ambiguous. If, on average, one chicken in a million has two heads, such chickens would not be normal(1) in the sense that, by far, most of them have only one head, but on the other hand it would be normal(2) if, in the future, one in a million continued to have two heads. In fact, if a billion chickens were then born, and zero of them had two heads - that would not be normal(2). Tetragametic chimerism in humans is rare and therefore not normal(1), but them being born once in a while is entirely normal(2).