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Dear Parents-to-Be: Stop Celebrating Your Baby's Gender
Cosmopolitan ^ | July 9, 2017 | Diane Stopyra

Posted on 07/11/2017 1:54:41 PM PDT by Trump20162020

For starters, gender-reveal parties don't actually reveal gender—they reveal anatomy. Gender is a wholly different thing, inextricably tied to the social constructs around it. (Fun fact: Blue used to be the color most associated with little girls, due to its association with the Virgin Mary. But Hitler—yes, Hitler—feminized the color pink by forcing gays to wear triangles in that shade during World War II.) A gender reveal conflates the two.

Projecting gender perceptions onto a fetus becomes especially thorny when you take into consideration that, globally, one in every 1000 to 1500 children is born with a visible form of Difference of Sex Development (DSD), which means being neither entirely male nor female, since the chromosomal/genital makeup falls somewhere in between—an enlarged clitoris capable of erections, for instance. (Broader definitions of DSD put this number closer to 1 in 100 children.) Then there are the millions of kids assigned a sex at birth with which they don't align: 150,000 American teenagers identify as transgender. In a ritual that celebrates only a binary way of thinking about identity, we're leaving a cross-section of the population out, adding to a culture of trans and intersex shame. And for what? Confetti poppers?

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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: mentalillness
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To: Army Air Corps

“...we are looking at a tiny minority of people.”

It’s OK to point out that ‘transgender-ism’ is not normal -

“normal”
adjective
1.
conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.

noun
1.
the usual, average, or typical state or condition.


21 posted on 07/11/2017 2:23:19 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Trump20162020
For starters, gender-reveal parties don't actually reveal gender—they reveal anatomy. Gender is a wholly different thing, inextricably tied to the social constructs around it

They reveal sex. Yes gender is a whole different thing. Gender applies to words, not people. People are divided into sexes, not genders. This nonsense is exactly why the left has pushed the term for the last 20 years. Let 100 genders bloom!

22 posted on 07/11/2017 2:24:28 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism wiithout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Tzimisce

Probably because she can’t get a date, no one wants her and her clock is ticking and she had too many abortions to have children.


23 posted on 07/11/2017 2:26:42 PM PDT by reaganaut (In a flash, we went from normal people tolerating abnormal people to abnormal people jailing normal)
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To: BenLurkin


                         "I wish Hitler would hurry up."

24 posted on 07/11/2017 2:27:23 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

Good catch.


25 posted on 07/11/2017 2:31:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Trump20162020

I was half expecting Cosmo to tell us to stop revealing babies’ sex so National Socialist Party members wouldn’t come to the parties and kill people.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/09/us/ohio-house-party-shooting/index.html


26 posted on 07/11/2017 2:37:14 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Trump20162020


27 posted on 07/11/2017 2:44:00 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: Trump20162020

I'm one of those organic gender people.

28 posted on 07/11/2017 2:52:52 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Trump20162020

I'm one of those organic marriage people.

29 posted on 07/11/2017 2:53:18 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Army Air Corps

What a bunch of drivel Cosmo,


30 posted on 07/11/2017 2:53:20 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Trump20162020
I know blue used to be considered a baby girl’s color, but never heard that Hitler line before.

Yellow Stars of David were for Jews.

Triangles came in many colors, and depended on the prisoner.

Red - political
Green - professional criminals
Blue - forced labor (foreigners)
Purple - Jehovah's Witness
Pink - homosexual.
Brown - Roma/Gypsies.
Black - anti-socials

The triangles had a flat top, with the point down.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=14%2fV6ntx&id=F5E1C7D7AC173491DB2C8BE2E7279A5EEF457DE5&thid=OIP.14_V6ntx-GeUs-W0Iu-sVgFTC4&q=Holocaust+Symbols+Triangles&simid=608022329673125124&selectedIndex=4&ajaxhist=0

https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=Zf4odtpd&id=8A8F86232F002B6B907AEC7F60188C45A9B9780E&thid=OIP.Zf4odtpd9EddWbQo8Tm3RgDZEs&q=Identification+in+Nazi+Camps&simid=608003088216688538&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0

31 posted on 07/11/2017 2:56:16 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Trump20162020

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/homosexuals-and-the-third-reich


32 posted on 07/11/2017 3:00:41 PM PDT by ex91B10
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To: reaganaut

This is truly one of the rudest, most condescending things I’ve read in a major publication.

How would you like to be this woman’s friend? And you be expecting and read something like this?


33 posted on 07/11/2017 3:01:30 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: reaganaut

I notice there is no comments section.

Why is that?


34 posted on 07/11/2017 3:01:51 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Trump20162020

” gender-reveal parties don’t actually reveal gender—they reveal anatomy. Gender is a wholly different thing, inextricably tied to the social constructs around it.”

This is obviously a load of BS. But unfortunately, it represents the official party line of the “enlightened” class (the PC a-holes) - and you will agree or else!


35 posted on 07/11/2017 3:02:10 PM PDT by pelican001
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To: Trump20162020

Who is this twit?


36 posted on 07/11/2017 3:07:25 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: the_daug
Talk about being ahead of the curve...

The flick is 35 years old now.

37 posted on 07/11/2017 3:08:23 PM PDT by ex91B10
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To: Trump20162020
Then there are the millions of kids assigned a sex at birth with which they don't align: 150,000 American teenagers identify as transgender. In a ritual that celebrates only a binary way of thinking about identity, we're leaving a cross-section of the population out

Male sex and female sex is binary. Maleness and femaleness as a gender identity is a continuum. One can be high or low on the continuum. No one needs to be left out.

38 posted on 07/11/2017 3:10:24 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Trump20162020

This seems staged, it was only a week or two ago that I first heard the term “gender reveal party”. I doubt it’s very common.


39 posted on 07/11/2017 3:11:33 PM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: Trump20162020
Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, who has studied transgendered people for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men.”

https://iotwreport.com/transgenders-are-impersonators-counterfeits-professor-of-psychiatry-at-johns-hopkins-university/

40 posted on 07/11/2017 3:12:07 PM PDT by ex91B10
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