Adm Rachel Levine is also the AAP keynote speaker later this month...as the American Academy of Pediatrics chooses to prioritize....well...I don't know what....over actually giving these vulnerable young people decent medical care. How about not lying to them about risks and benefits and alternatives and what is known, AAP? HHS?
They could have responded to the Cass Review, new information (well, to many), all put together carefully and thoroughly and in a neutral voice. It could have been, oh, how many thousands has the US put on this path, and look what the review of all the evidence, including that from the US, found...we'd better hit the brakes...but...no.
Unfortunately that didn't come up, but it certainly should have.
Though I think this comment of yours is part of the problem:
GP: "She’s never been put on the spot to say if she considers biology outdated and a person’s gender is whatever he or she declares it to be."
Too many people are conflating sex and gender -- entirely different kettles of fish. "Sex" generally refers to reproductive abilities whereas "gender" refers to personalities and behaviours typical of the different sexes. You may wish to consider a rather cogent and quite illuminating analogy from the late, great Justice Anton Scalia:
"Scalia: “The word 'gender' has acquired the new and useful connotation of cultural or attitudinal characteristics (as opposed to physical characteristics) distinctive to the sexes. That is to say, gender is to sex as feminine is to female and masculine is to male.”
"Rachel" Levine has changed "her" gender to a more feminine expression by putting on a dress, but "she" has most certainly not changed "her" sex. If "she" still has her nuts attached then "she" is still a male, and if "she" doesn't then "she" is a sexless eunuch.
Since she alluded to having to be a biologist to answer the question, she is admitting that biology determines your sex, so a sex operation is not going to change your biology, neither is a feeling going to change your biology, so what a woman is can be easily described biologically.
Thanks for bringing this up. Clearly this wasn’t asked. Post-debate I haven’t seen this question being brought up either. And this a most important question to ask both candidates!
They also didn’t ask her about freedom of speech on which she has a terrible record! Perhaps even worse than on gender ideology .. or maybe the two are intertwined.
There‘ s much more to this than ‚considering biology outdated“ and defining a person’s gender from whatever he or she declares it to be. Biology includes knowledge that in around 1,5 % of all human beings biology left it ‚unclear’ to which gender a person can be sorted in, in many other species there is „gender fluidity‘ as well as in ,social roles‘ (sometimes women are the more aggressive and physically stromger a.o.). That can“ t be denied unless you want biology to be considered outdated… - The real problem here is that it should be merely up to the persons to decide whether they „feel“ as male/diverse/female/whatever, because indeed it mostly is far more complicated so that these questions should not be left to be decided by persons without scientific/ biological knowledge.
Adm Rachel Levine is also the AAP keynote speaker later this month...as the American Academy of Pediatrics chooses to prioritize....well...I don't know what....over actually giving these vulnerable young people decent medical care. How about not lying to them about risks and benefits and alternatives and what is known, AAP? HHS?
They could have responded to the Cass Review, new information (well, to many), all put together carefully and thoroughly and in a neutral voice. It could have been, oh, how many thousands has the US put on this path, and look what the review of all the evidence, including that from the US, found...we'd better hit the brakes...but...no.
Thank you for this!
Thanks for the heads up on the Levine talk coming up to the AAP
Free sex changes for mentally ill law-breaking illegals?
Who do I make my check out to?
Oh sure, ABC will be sure to ask that question. Right.
And , of course, they didn’t!
> "What is a woman?"
Unfortunately that didn't come up, but it certainly should have.
Though I think this comment of yours is part of the problem:
GP: "She’s never been put on the spot to say if she considers biology outdated and a person’s gender is whatever he or she declares it to be."
Too many people are conflating sex and gender -- entirely different kettles of fish. "Sex" generally refers to reproductive abilities whereas "gender" refers to personalities and behaviours typical of the different sexes. You may wish to consider a rather cogent and quite illuminating analogy from the late, great Justice Anton Scalia:
"Scalia: “The word 'gender' has acquired the new and useful connotation of cultural or attitudinal characteristics (as opposed to physical characteristics) distinctive to the sexes. That is to say, gender is to sex as feminine is to female and masculine is to male.”
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep511/usrep511127/usrep511127.pdf
More than a few devils in the details of the definitions for both, but this Merriam-Webster definition and usage note provides a brief synopsis:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender#usage-1
"Rachel" Levine has changed "her" gender to a more feminine expression by putting on a dress, but "she" has most certainly not changed "her" sex. If "she" still has her nuts attached then "she" is still a male, and if "she" doesn't then "she" is a sexless eunuch.
Since she alluded to having to be a biologist to answer the question, she is admitting that biology determines your sex, so a sex operation is not going to change your biology, neither is a feeling going to change your biology, so what a woman is can be easily described biologically.
Thanks for bringing this up. Clearly this wasn’t asked. Post-debate I haven’t seen this question being brought up either. And this a most important question to ask both candidates!
Trump is much better on this than Harris, but women don’t seem to get it!
No, that will not come up! Nothing will come up about that issue, you can bet your sweet bippy!,
They also didn’t ask her about freedom of speech on which she has a terrible record! Perhaps even worse than on gender ideology .. or maybe the two are intertwined.
What a pile of horseshit.
There‘ s much more to this than ‚considering biology outdated“ and defining a person’s gender from whatever he or she declares it to be. Biology includes knowledge that in around 1,5 % of all human beings biology left it ‚unclear’ to which gender a person can be sorted in, in many other species there is „gender fluidity‘ as well as in ,social roles‘ (sometimes women are the more aggressive and physically stromger a.o.). That can“ t be denied unless you want biology to be considered outdated… - The real problem here is that it should be merely up to the persons to decide whether they „feel“ as male/diverse/female/whatever, because indeed it mostly is far more complicated so that these questions should not be left to be decided by persons without scientific/ biological knowledge.