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   From: dragon40@removeunseen.is   
      
   Sometimes there just aren’t any words…   
      
   Fortunately this story is developing in Canada and not in the United   
   States, at least for now. Katherine Timpf at National Review Online   
   brings us a story of social justice or LGBT rights or… I have no idea   
   what this is to be honest. But the elected representatives of the good   
   people in British Columbia have apparently heard the plaintive cries of   
   the oppressed and are set to consider removing gender classifications   
   from birth certificates.   
      
   No… really.   
      
   [NR]   
      
   The Human Rights Tribunal in British Columbia will consider completely   
   eliminating gender designations from birth certificates in response to   
   complaints from the Trans Alliance Society (TAS) and other transgender   
   individuals, according to an article in the National Post.   
      
   According to the complainants, we need to stop acting as if doctors can   
   tell the sex of a baby just by looking at the baby’s genitals:   
      
   Birth certificates [may] give false information about people and   
   characterize them in a way that is actually wrong, that assumes to be   
   right, and causes people . . . actual harm,” said transgender woman and   
   TAS chair Morgane Oger.   
      
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   According to attorney barbara findlay (who insists we not use capital   
   letters in her name) the antiquated and unfair practice of nosy   
   government busybodies assigning gender on a government document when   
   you’re only a baby is wrong because:   
      
   1. Those are not the only two genders, and   
   2. A person’s “gender develops” over time.   
      
   The reason that I said this was only in Canada for now is that the trend   
   is already gaining traction on the home front. The Los Angeles-based   
   Granada Hills Charter High School is already allowing boys who “self-   
   identify as girls” to use the female locker room, even though a   
   (naturally born) girl complained that one such boy stared strangely at   
   her and also peeked at girls over the stalls while they used the toilet.   
   The same thing happened on the other coast in Virginia. It’s even   
   happening in Kentucky.   
      
   To place the blame where it truly belongs, we should be honest enough   
   that this all started with Allie McBeal. Even though producer David E.   
   Kelley claimed that the unisex bathroom on the show was only used to save   
   space on the studio lot, he clearly let the genie out of the bottle and   
   should apologize to the nation.   
      
   If somebody wants to say that they are the opposite gender from that   
   indicated by their original equipment, that’s up to them. You can dress   
   however you want as long as you’re not endangering anyone else. But as   
   with all other matters of free speech in our society, that doesn’t mean   
   that everyone else has to play along or that you don’t risk being   
   offended by people’s reactions. Or at least that’s how it should be. How   
   it will actually turn out in our courts when a similar movement   
   inevitably shows up in the United States is far from certain.   
      
   Source: http://bit.ly/1EL4088   
      
   --   
   "Next question: Why hasn’t Obama ordered the Marine commandant at   
   Guantanamo Bay to stop providing an Islamic diet, prayer beads, prayer   
   rugs, and Korans to prisoners affiliated with al Qaeda, ISIL and other   
   terrorist groups if they’re not Islamic?" (Jan LaRue:   
   http://bit.ly/1ucU6Zp)   
      
   "Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended   
   on behalf of people who aren’t and to impose their will on those who   
   didn’t ask for it."  (Derek Hunter)   
      
   "Liberals never argue with one another over substance; their only dispute   
   is how to prevent the public from figuring out what they really   
   believe." (Ann Coulter)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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