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To: 7.62 x 51mm
That's a mere physical problem, and is easily fixed. Gender identity is a mental problem; far worse to correct.

I don't think you understand. There is, of course, a mental component to gender. When a baby is born without clearly defined genitalia, the Dr's usually decide to make the baby be female. Some of these children grow up and insist they feel like men.

Physically normal people who insist they are the wrong sex are mentally ill. People whose physical sexual development was compromised, leaving Dr's to choose which gender they will be, are an entirely different issue.

54 posted on 02/18/2005 3:43:24 PM PST by Dianna
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To: Dianna
When a baby is born without clearly defined genitalia, the Dr's usually decide to make the baby be female.

This follows the mistaken logic that a woman is nothing more than a man without a penis. But there's obviously more to it than that.

58 posted on 02/18/2005 3:48:18 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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"I don't think you understand. There is, of course, a mental component to gender. When a baby is born without clearly defined genitalia, the Dr's usually decide to make the baby be female. Some of these children grow up and insist they feel like men"

Is a penis or vagina a solid precursor to sexual identity? There's huge difference between each appendage and personality, D.

If comparison to pics in books, makes Docs more secure in their so-called pronouncements of sexuality, then

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I've got family and extended family chock-full-o'-medical types, and have never heard this scenario, D. Scores of Docs & Nurses; never a whisper. I'm calling them as I write this reply, for clarification...


81 posted on 02/18/2005 4:25:40 PM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (D)
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