Posted on 02/19/2025 4:02:06 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance updating its official definitions of terms such as sex, female, and male on Wednesday following President Donald Trump's executive orders limiting transgender rights.
The guidance reiterates the Trump administration's stance that male and female are the only two sexes, and that they cannot be changed. It is one of the first actions taken by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following his confirmation last week as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
"This administration is bringing back common sense and restoring biological truth to the federal government," Kennedy said. "The prior administration's policy of trying to engineer gender ideology into every aspect of public life is over."
Trump seeks to end what he says was the government's promotion of "gender ideology," a loose term often used by conservative groups to reference ideologies that promote non-traditional views on sex and gender. Rights activists view the term as an anti-LGBTQ trope and dehumanizing.
Transgender rights have become a contentious political topic in recent years. Several Republicans campaigned to reverse transgender laws during November's election season.
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“””The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance “””
Send them all junior high biology text books. Look at the pictures. Figure out the difference between men and women. Problem solved.
Did a biologist make this determination?
So male and female are no immutable, fundamental biological truths? Instead, we can just take a "stance" on the sexes?
That’s correct. In a world in which over 50 gender identities have been discovered so far, it is considered to be restrictive binary thinking, to say there are only 2 sexes..
Absurd, I know, but this is how these gender activists look at this subject.
And what about hermaphrodites? This is from Wikipedia:
Historically, the term hermaphrodite was used in law to refer to people whose sex was in doubt. The 12th-century Decretum Gratiani states that “Whether an hermaphrodite may witness a testament, depends on which sex prevails” (”Hermafroditus an ad testamentum adhiberi possit, qualitas sexus incalescentis ostendit.”).[44][45]
Alexander ab Alexandro (1461–1523) stated, using the term hermaphrodite, that the people who bore the sexes of both man and woman were regarded by the Athenians and the Romans as monsters, and thrown into the sea at Athens and into the Tiber at Rome.[46] Similarly, the 17th-century English jurist and judge Edward Coke (Lord Coke), wrote in his Institutes of the Lawes of England on laws of succession stating, “Every heire is either a male, a female, or an hermaphrodite, that is both male and female. And an hermaphrodite (which is also called Androgynus) shall be heire, either as male or female, according to that kind of sexe which doth prevaile.”[47][48]
During the Victorian era, medical authors attempted to ascertain whether or not humans could be hermaphrodites, adopting a precise biological definition to the term.[49] From that period until the early 21st century, individuals with ovotesticular syndrome were termed true hermaphrodites if their gonadal tissue contained both testicular and ovarian tissue, and pseudohermaphrodites if their external appearance (phenotype) differed from sex expected from internal gonads. This language has fallen out of favor due to misconceptions and stigma associated with the terms,[50][51][8][10] and also a shift to nomenclature based on genetics.
The term “intersex” described a wide variety of combinations of what are ambiguous biological characteristics. Intersex biology may include, for example, ambiguous-looking external genitalia, karyotypes that include mixed XX and XY chromosome pairs (46XX/46XY, 46XX/47XXY or 45X/XY mosaic). Clinically, medicine currently uses the terminology “disorders of sex development” [52] (also known as variations in sex characteristics.)[53] This is particularly significant because of the relationship between medical terminology and medical intervention.[54]
Intersex civil society organizations, and many human rights institutions,[55][56] have criticized medical interventions designed to make bodies more typically male or female.
In some cases, variations in sex characteristics are caused by unusual levels of sex hormones, which may be the result of an atypical set of sex chromosomes.[medical citation needed] One common cause of variations in sex characteristics traits is the crossing over of the testis-determining factor (SRY) from the Y chromosome to the X chromosome during meiosis. The SRY is then activated in only certain areas, causing development of testes in some areas by beginning a series of events starting with the upregulation of the transcription factor (SOX9), and in other areas not being active (causing the growth of ovarian tissues). Thus, testicular and ovarian tissues will both be present in the same individual.[57] Of all total recorded cases of ovotesticular DSD, in only 8% percent of all cases was SRY present, leaving the rest of cases that could be explained to other or less common causes, with the vast majority simply being currently unexplainable.
Fetuses were previously thought to be phenotypically female before the sexual differentiation stage;[58] however, this is now known to be incorrect, as humans are simply undifferentiated before this stage and possess a paramesonephric duct, a mesonephric duct, and a genital tubercle.[59][60]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite
How many focus groups were needed to come up with verbiage that worked?
The one barely saying anything to a woman for hours, sitting in front of a TV watching sports or movies, eating salty and sweet snack foods and drinking booze in casual attire——is a man.
Joke told by psychologist Dr. Ray Guarendi.
“My wife tells me I’m not good at communicating with her. One day she said to me “Ray, have you heard anything at all I just said to you all this time?”
I thought that was a really odd thing to start a conversation with.”
Are you making a point? Do you believe we should upend thousands of years of civil society, discard all common sense, to accommodate an extremely small number of hermaphrodites?
Do you believe woman should get up by biological men? Do you really believe MEN can magically transform into WOMEN by chopping off their genitalia?
“Are you making a point?”
Technically, my FRiend, yes technically.
“Do you believe we should upend thousands of years of civil society . . .?”
Of course not.
“Do you . . . Do you . . .?”
No, no.
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