Posted on 12/16/2020 12:08:01 PM PST by Heartlander
The New England Journal of Medicine continues its hard swing toward wokeness. Now, it has published an advocacy article that would remove sex designation as an identifiable factor on birth certificates. From, “Failed Assignments: Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates”:
Assigning sex at birth also doesn’t capture the diversity of people’s experiences. About 6 in 1000 people identify as transgender, meaning that their gender identity doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. Others are nonbinary, meaning they don’t exclusively identify as a man or a woman, or gender nonconforming, meaning their behavior or appearance doesn’t align with social expectations for their assigned sex.
The idea is to move sex designation “below the line,” which allows for general statistical compilation of vital statistics, but not an identifiable designation of the particular individual about whom the birth certificate was created. The point is to promote a particular view of social justice:
Moving sex designations below the line would be in keeping with legal developments deemphasizing sex distinctions. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has held, in Obergefell v. Hodges, that bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, only a few legal contexts relying on sex designations remain. In these contexts, using information from birth certificates is not the best way to categorize people.
The authors also want sex designations removed from important documents such as passports:
Passports and state identification cards relying on sex assigned at birth for identification pose another challenge. These documents are usually issued or renewed when the holder is an adolescent or an adult, however, so moving sex designations below the line of demarcation on birth certificates would permit applicants to identify their gender without medical verification. Governments could also remove gender designations from identification cards altogether and focus more on identifiable physical features and updated photographs. This change would accommodate nonbinary people and reduce the burdens associated with amending documents.
Articles like this certainly have their place. But when they appear in the most influential medical journal in the world, it calls into question the editors’ ability to dispassionately choose which medical papers to publish. I mean, if a reputable study reached conclusions that were scientifically sound but cut against the grain of the favored ideology, do you think it would ever make the pages of the NEJM? Not a chance!
Publishing ideological advocacy in what is supposed to be a journal that primarily publishes objective scientific information contributes to the growing public distrust of the science sector. That doesn’t help people with gender dysphoria specifically, or contribute to the betterment of society overall.
Science!
Well math is racist, so I don’t see why all of science isn’t racist. Both have too many Whites cisgender Males in charge.
Guess that makes ice hockey racist too.
Gender Dysphoria by Proxy
That’s been tried before. Some of the more disturbed mothers tried it most recently a few decades ago. The children returned to doing what was natural and healthy according to their sexes. That’s a human tendency.
-XXY (Klinefelter syndrome)
-XYY (Jacob’s syndrome)
-XXX (Triple X)
-XXXX (Tetrasomy X)
-XXXY (variant of Klinefelter syndrome)
-XXXXY
-XXXXX (less than 40 cases ever reported)
Hockey...racist.
Curling...racist.
Astronauts...racist.
Astronauts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
How ‘bout they list sex based on DNA? You are either XX or XY. DNA doesn’t lie, cannot be changed and is yours for life.
>>About 6 in 1000 people identify as transgender
On in 3 on television.
XX, XY? That’s racist, privileged, bigoted, heteronormative, patriarchal, and mean!
The science says so, says I!
Very very SICK and disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
“Penis or vagina. I’m good with that.”
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ambiguous-genitalia/symptoms-causes/syc-20369273
“Wokeness?” Hey, NEJM. We did not cause your personal problems, and your own fathers weren’t the sole causes of your problems. Look inside yourselves and your mothers.
That’s ok, it’s pretty rare. :)
What could possibly go wrong.
Looks like a better thing to put on the birth certificate is “XX” or “XY” to be perfectly clear about it.
What absolute nitwits. These politicized so-called loser doctors can’t deny biology. Are they insane or what? What pathetic frauds.
To a DNA test and birth and document XX or XY.
This is just silly!
Gender Identity = Method Acting
Shortfall: NCS/Nicolas Cage Syndrome
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