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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (792025)	6/26/2014 7:32:02 PM
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Slate writer plumbs the depths of liberal stupidity. Says not to let the doctor look between your newborn's legs and declare it's a boy or it's a girl. Leave that up to the baby to determine themselves later. Doctors are just agents of the brutal patriarchal power structure out to suppress the transgendered: Don’t Let the Doctor Do This to Your Newborn By Christin Scarlett Milloy...... When the doctor holds your child up to the harsh light of the delivery room, looks between its legs, and declares his opinion: It's a boy or a girl, based on nothing more than a cursory assessment of your offspring's genitals. ......... With infant gender assignment, in a single moment your baby's life is instantly and brutally reduced from such infinite potentials down to one concrete set of expectations and stereotypes, and any behavioral deviation from that will be severely punished—both intentionally through bigotry, and unintentionally through ignorance. That doctor (and the power structure behind him) plays a pivotal role in imposing those limits on helpless infants, without their consent, and without your informed consent as a parent. This issue deserves serious consideration by every parent, because no matter what gender identity your child ultimately adopts, infant gender assignment has effects that will last through their whole life. .......... Infant gender assignment is a wilful decision, and as a maturing society we need to judge whether it might be a wrong action. Why must we force this on kids at birth? What is achieved, besides reinforcing tradition? What could be the harm in letting a child wait to declare for themself who they are, once they're old enough (which is generally believed to happen around age 2 or 3)? ........ Infant gender assignment might just be Russian roulette with your baby's life. http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/06/26/infant_gender_assignment_unnecessary_and_potentially_harmful.html ht aceofspades

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