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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Gender Identity Realities

 There are only two “Biological” genders (male and female) that are determined at birth and they never change. The overwhelming majority of people understand that and agree with that. There are some people who mentally believe that their actual gender is different than their biological gender. These people have literally come up with dozens of these “mental” genders and assign themselves specifically to one of these dozens of mental genders and they want the rest of the world to acknowledge their mental gender and use it in every day life.

However, this “mental confusion” regarding gender on their part presents problems in the real world. Let's review those problems:

1. Physical health:

No matter what your mental gender, your biological gender determines some of your health issues and how to deal with them to keep you healthy. For example, a biological male has a prostate, no matter what his mental gender is. As a person ages, prostates can cause problems including prostate cancer and urinary issues, thus requiring medical help and prostate exams specific to your biological gender. Mental gender is irrelevant.

In a similar manner, a biological female, no matter what her mental gender, has breasts, a uterus, and ovaries – all of which can become cancerous, requiring medical help and preventive exams specific to her biological gender. Again, mental gender is irrelevant.

2. Sports Competition:

A biological male has 40% more muscle mass than a biological female due to all the space in a biological female's body devoted to reproduction. That's a fact that makes it totally unfair and unreasonable to allow biological males, no matter what their mental gender, to compete against biological females in sports. This is cheating and should never be allowed. Any historical sports “records” for female sports taken by biological males should be expunged and awarded to the biological females who competed.

3. Privacy, Modesty, and Safety Concerns:

Multi-person public bathrooms and locker rooms, for the safety, modesty, and privacy of biological females should be assigned and utilized strictly by biological gender designation.

4. Grammar:

Those with mental genders that differ from their biological gender reject the grammatically correct pronouns of his and her for addressing singular persons. They want people to use the grammatical incorrect “plural” pronoun “they” instead for a singular person. Not only is it grammatically incorrect, but it is confusing and non-instinctive, thus difficult to use.

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