Posted on 07/21/2009 5:44:42 AM PDT by rdb3
Monday, July 20, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
But for the collection of gender data, instead of using the categories male and female," the legislation calls for developing standards for the measurement of gender.
The language is found on page 410 and 411 of the 615 document under SEC. 332: Understanding Health Disparities: Data Collection and Analysis.
The legislation says that the purpose of the database is to detect and monitor trends in health disparities at federal and state levels.
The legislation also says the database will be made available to a wide range of federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control, the Office for Minority Health, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.
It also stipulates that the database will be secure and will protect individual privacy.
Merriam Webster dictionary defines gender as a subset of a grammatical class of certain languages; sex, i.e., male or female, as its second definition; and the third definition refers to the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.
Like the Senate HELP health care bill, the House version--Americas Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009--does not include in its proposed database of participants categories for male, female, or sex, but uses gender as a category for data collection.
Gender identity is routinely used by homosexual groups to define differences in sexual orientation, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and, in some cases, questioning.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Oh, dear...
This thread has some real promise... :)
How did such appalling people gain control of our Government? They must be stopped. NOW.
I’m thinkin’ I don’t have a snappy response to this!
Measuring gender? Something like the following:
Male:
Penis length, in inches.
Penis circumference, in inches.
Testicle surface-area, in in^2.
Female:
Bust, waist, hip, in inches.
Honestly that’s the only verifiable, objective method to “measure gender” that I can think of.
{Yes, it may be a bit crude, but it DOES serve to point out the silliness of not only the idea, but the phrasing.}
ML/NJ
"X" + "Y" equals male
"X" + "X" equals female
As discussed on an earlier thread, its a measurement of the spectrum from extreme masculinity at the right (Jim Thompson), to no gender in the middle, to extreme femininity to the far left (John Kerry).
Words are classified by gender. People by sex. Sex is imutable. Gender is flexible. Thus the Left use the term gender.
I thought Obama said, “It’s not about me!”
Tyranny by the minority.
Health Care Bill Directs HHS Secretary to Develop 'Standards for Measuring Gender'
mmmm 'kay...
'Male'
'Female'
Problem solved.
WHAAAAAAT?
NO Obamacare
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