Girls will be girls and boys will be boys, except in California. The difference between boys and girls used to be pretty obvious. I know there are some animals where gender identification is an issue. Chickens, for example, create some challenges. That is why there are professional Chicken Sexers:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-intuition-of-professional-chicken-sexers-2012-3
It turns out that to most people all chickens, regardless of sex, look pretty much the same. But getting the sex right really matters. Male chickens tend to end up on the grill, while female chickens are kept alive to produce eggs. You can keep a male chicken until the cows come home, because both you and the chicken think it’s a male, but you won’t get any eggs. Hence, the professional chicken sexer.
To the best of my knowledge, no professional chicken sexer actually asks the chicken for his or her opinion. They just check out the appropriate physical parts and go from there. Even if a male chicken is convinced that he is actually a she, the chicken sexer is not impressed. If it doesn’t fit, you must omit.
I always thought it was relatively easy to tell the difference between male and female humans. Granted there have been occasions when I saw someone whose physical appearance was more than a little ambiguous. But I always felt that underneath it all was some significant plumbing equipment variations that would seal the deal. But, I was wrong. Here in California our esteemed legislature has passed AB1266. Now, it turns out, that we can’t actually rely on physical characteristics to determine sex. Instead, we need to rely on the more modern approach of determining sex by the perceived preference of the individual. If this seems confusing to you, you are probably from a state that lacks the culture and sophistication of California.
The California legislature has decided that individuals who were inconveniently born with the wrong physical parts can now change their gender simply by announcing that they are now the opposite sex. This is great. If you are a boy, you just announce that you are a girl and you can use the girl’s rest rooms, the girl’s locker rooms and even try out for the girl’s basketball team. I know some teenage boys, not confused about their gender identity that will find this appealing.
If you think the problem is equal for both sexes you are more than a little naïve. Just do a little research and find out how many women have been arrested for hiding cameras in restrooms to spy on naked men. I suspect that more than a few women are going to be less than thrilled about this new found freedom. The good news is that if this law passes, we can expect some really outstanding performances from high school girls in California. We could even see some new world records here.
For years some foreign countries have sent some rather masculine looking female athletes to the Olympics. They won a lot of medals but the real girls weren’t all that enthusiastic. The problem became so severe that the Olympic Committee now has rather extensive testing on the subject. Following is an article about how this works:
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/07/30/olympics-new-hormone-regulations-judged-by-how-you-look/
California Democrats are, of course, outraged by this. Just because a female athlete is six feet tall, two hundred pounds, with no boobs and facial hair is no justification to suspect a problem with gender identity. If you think you are a girl, you are a girl, regardless of any physical evidence to the contrary.
This is going to create some real challenges for California parents. What’s a mother (or father) to do? I mean we all want to be fair and more importantly, legal about this. How do you find out if your girl is really a boy or vice versa. Obviously the traditional method of checking out the plumbing fixtures is obsolete.
Suppose your sixteen-year-old boy, who you just caught looking at porn on your computer, announces that he had decided to be a girl. He contacts the school principal and declares that he has always thought he was secretly a girl. By the way, he wants to try out for the girl’s basketball team. He is six feet tall, which is too short for the boy’s basketball team, but he would be the tallest player on the girl’s team. Getting to use the girl’s restroom and locker room is just a bonus.
You are pretty convinced that he is lying to you, but can you take the chance? I mean transgender people have rights. Do you really want to risk forcing your child to deny his own gender identity? What if you are wrong about this?
By now we are used to California being the laughing stock of the country. But with this brilliant move, we could qualify for the coveted Nobel prize for Stupidity. If you wonder how other people really feel about this stuff, read the following article from a Nigerian who is sick and tired of Obama lecturing them on moral values:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/when-obama-eventually-comes-here/
“…we in Nigeria and Africa as a whole, whether Christians, Muslims or traditionalists, consider homosexuality and bestiality as taboo. The West, on the other hand, has uprooted the Christian foundations of their societies and adopted atheistic definition of “freedom” or human rights. They have taken the definition beyond sane boundaries. This is why the US Supreme Court recently ruled that marriage is no longer defined as a union between a man and a woman. With this new definition, men can marry men, women can marry women. In fact, American soldiers are free to have sex with animals and, perhaps, marry them!
Count us out of that!
Without a spiritual base, the West is in steep decline, and they cannot take us with them. Nigeria and Africa are rising. We will take what we want from the West and drop the rest in the trash bin, just like the Asians have done.”
I am sure he will be very impressed with the new California experiment.
In California, the parts you were provided with at birth by God, Karma or just plain luck, no longer matter. You are who you think you are. When it comes to choosing a rest room, your physical gender doesn’t matter. You just have to decide to pee or not to pee.
TDM