Guessing the transgender population is pretty small, some say as high as 3/1000. The only example that comes to mind is the olypian formerly known as Bruce. So, it seems like quite a stretch, you know, like putting a handicapped elevator on Mount Everest?
Seriously...on the way home from Easter brunch this year and praying the Rosary with the Mon and the boys in the car. We pull into the driveway and are finishing up the 5th decade while the car is parked on the driveway. Dude walking down the sidewalk pulls up on the side of my garage and starts whizzin'. We finished our Rosary and I walked up the corner store where he was hangin' out with a couple other homeboyz and he and I had a little chat.
At one time I considered monkhood and retiring from the world but it's nice when a woman at work needs your help getting something off the shelf and rubs your arm.
For hundreds of years, urban dwellers used a slop bucket which was dumped nightly from the 2nd story to the street below; the next couple dozen generations used the outhouse. If there was a transgender problem, it was not recorded. In our typically over reactive manner, we now worry about LGTG bathroom habits. Are we opening the door to little urinals for the dwarf population, reinforced potties for the 600 pounders out there, separate facilities for Republicans and Democrats, a place for guide dogs to go? Frankly, it is a simple biological function and I could give a 'crap', ya know?
The NC Law specifies a person be assigned a restroom based on their 'sex at birth'. Which seems straightforward in most cases. The rare problem is noted from a purely biological standpoint: "A more medicalised definition describes biological sex as determined by five factors present at birth: the number and type of sex chromosomes; the type of gonads—ovaries or testicles; the sex hormones; the internal reproductive anatomy (such as the uterus in females); and the external genitalia.
People whose five characteristics are not either all typically male or all typically female at birth are intersex. (termed transgender)
Intersex traits are not always apparent at birth; some babies may be born with ambiguous genitals, while others may have ambiguous internal organs (testes and ovaries). Others will not become aware that they are intersex unless they receive genetic testing, because it does not manifest in their phenotype" ___so we have phenotypical subjects being assigned based upon their genotypical array at birth. IMO, it is difficult for the majority to understand and even more difficult for the subject minority to live with. Given the birth variability (5 characteristics) it is difficult if not impossible to legislate concise law...as the ancients, who also were familiar with the condition reacted in other both negative and positive ways, the Greeks for example in their polytheistic mythology .
Guessing the transgender population is pretty small, some say as high as 3/1000. The only example that comes to mind
ReplyDeleteis the olypian formerly known as Bruce. So, it seems like
quite a stretch, you know, like putting a handicapped elevator on Mount Everest?
Or how about on the side of my garage?
ReplyDeleteSeriously...on the way home from Easter brunch this year and praying the Rosary with the Mon and the boys in the car. We pull into the driveway and are finishing up the 5th decade while the car is parked on the driveway. Dude walking down the sidewalk pulls up on the side of my garage and starts whizzin'. We finished our Rosary and I walked up the corner store where he was hangin' out with a couple other homeboyz and he and I had a little chat.
I don't think he'll be doing that again.
The media insist we call Bruce Caitlyn but he still likes women and hasn't had weiner surgery yet.
ReplyDeleteIt's stories like that ^ making the headlines that make we want to get fitted for a cassock and go into hiding.
DeleteAt one time I considered monkhood and retiring from the world but it's nice when a woman at work needs your help getting something off the shelf and rubs your arm.
DeleteMonkhood? A novitiate taster at Christian Brothers
Deletemight work.
Ozzy and Sharon, such a damn shame!
ReplyDeleteFor hundreds of years, urban dwellers used a slop bucket which was dumped nightly from the 2nd story to the street below; the next couple dozen generations used the outhouse.
ReplyDeleteIf there was a transgender problem, it was not recorded.
In our typically over reactive manner, we now worry about
LGTG bathroom habits. Are we opening the door to little urinals for the dwarf population, reinforced potties for
the 600 pounders out there, separate facilities for Republicans and Democrats, a place for guide dogs to go?
Frankly, it is a simple biological function and I could
give a 'crap', ya know?
The things we worry about. I just want a restroom to be clean ya know?
ReplyDeleteA Jack Tripper twist. What if a guy self-identifies as a woman just to get in the girls' locker room? The Obama DOJ - paving the way for pervs.
ReplyDeleteThe NC Law specifies a person be assigned a restroom based on their 'sex at birth'. Which seems straightforward in most cases. The rare problem is noted from a purely biological standpoint:
ReplyDelete"A more medicalised definition describes biological sex as determined by five factors present at birth:
the number and type of sex chromosomes;
the type of gonads—ovaries or testicles;
the sex hormones;
the internal reproductive anatomy (such as the uterus in females); and
the external genitalia.
People whose five characteristics are not either all typically male or all typically female at birth are intersex. (termed transgender)
Intersex traits are not always apparent at birth; some babies may be born with ambiguous genitals, while others may have ambiguous internal organs (testes and ovaries). Others will not become aware that they are intersex unless they receive genetic testing, because it does not manifest in their phenotype"
___so we have phenotypical subjects being assigned based upon their genotypical array at birth. IMO, it is difficult
for the majority to understand and even more difficult for
the subject minority to live with. Given the birth variability (5 characteristics) it is difficult if not impossible to legislate concise law...as the ancients, who
also were familiar with the condition reacted in other both
negative and positive ways, the Greeks for example in their
polytheistic mythology .
I guess hermaphrodites can use both bathrooms.
ReplyDeleteThere's a new black superhero out there called the Black Panther. What we need now is a transgendered superhero.
ReplyDelete