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Peru classifies transgender, nonbinary and intersex people as ‘mentally ill’
NY Post ^
| 5/14/2024
| By Olivia Land
Posted on 05/15/2024 10:21:50 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: ducttape45
Yes the only problem is how far to the other extreme elections can take those countries. From right win to far far left. Though can it be really any worse from here?
To: Chickensoup
No, that’s nonbinary.
Intersex is only about biology. It used to be called hermaphrodite.
To: Sam Gamgee
That's a good point. I've noticed how the politics in other countries swing wildly from one election to another. Of course, it kind of does the same thing here, but we both know that behind the scenes in the US, the same people pull the strings no matter who is in office.
Then I see things like what has happened in Argentina, and I think, wow, let's move there! But the next election could see all the old crooks get back into power and screw things up again. So then I think, what's the use in moving? We're pretty much screwed no matter where we live anymore.
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posted on
05/15/2024 4:26:37 PM PDT
by
ducttape45
(Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
To: WarANDPiece
There are not three sexes; there are two.
“Intersex” people have some type of phtsical malformation, usually resulting from genetic or chromosomal problems. This does not make them a third sex.
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posted on
05/15/2024 4:56:33 PM PDT
by
Chicory
To: Chicory
Of course! Yet they exist, so now what?
You just want to act like they don’t exist?
What would you classify their sex as? Male or female?
To: dodger
I don’t think they are either.
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posted on
05/15/2024 7:14:24 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
To: WarANDPiece
Of course! Yet they exist, so now what?
You just want to act like they don’t exist?
What would you classify their sex as? Male or female?
True hermaphrodites are extremely rare, less than a thousand documented cases. Ever.
Otherwise, almost every person can be categorized male or female based on the presence of the Y. Yes Y = male, no Y = female. Most chromosomal deficiences don't affect sex, but those that do, are definitively male or female. XYY, male. X or XXX, female. They may have ambiguous presentation or some cross-sex characteristics, but they are still specifically male or female.
Exceptions are some mutations where a male will have some cells drop the Y chromosome, but this is different from Turner's, and they're still male. Or, chimeras, where a second fetus of opposite sex was absorbed into the first, resulting in a mix of XX and XY cells, although normally one or the other is dominant. But again, very rare occurrences. None of these are something with tens of millions of people out there.
To: Svartalfiar
That’s a lot of words to say “yes they exist, but not enough for the government to waste any time adding a third option.”
They do exist, but not as far as systems of classifications go.
To: Sam Gamgee
[I think even 10 years ago American psychologists would have agreed,]
In the early 1970s (IIRC) homosexuality was still listed in DSM III. Psychology professor in college mentioned it over 35 years ago (I think he said 1970s).
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posted on
05/15/2024 10:28:01 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: NohSpinZone
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posted on
05/15/2024 10:31:12 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: ConjunctionJunction
To: WarANDPiece
Saying that intersex people do not constitute a third sex is not the same as denying they exist.
Yes, they exist, but they are people with a physical problem, not a “third sex.”
How they deal with it is an individual decision, not for me to say.
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05/16/2024 4:51:27 AM PDT
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Chicory
To: WarANDPiece
...You were the one banking if we should pretend they don’t exist..?
They are classified, and that’s how I presented them. Almost everything that exists can be classified in some manner
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