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Old 02-14-2004, 11:01 PM   #182 (permalink)
Colonel Quack
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There's something really subtle that nobody's bothered to bring up. If you want to define marriage as between a "male" and a "female", well, you'd have to then define what it is to be "male" or "female".
Pause for a moment.
I'm supposedly male, right? Well, what happens if I cut my genitalia, and take some hormones to grow breasts. What sex am I then, and who can I marry? Am I previously male, and therefore able to marry men in my now female apparence? Am I female, and then unable to marry women in my now female apparence?
I think you understand the complexity of this. It's not just transexuals, it's intersexuals. "Hermaphrodites." Some doctors would just assume cut them up at birth, "assigning" them genders at birth, but I believe they should be allowed to live out their lives however they see fit. Seriously, who can a hermaphrodite marry? Both? Neither? We're all human. I think we should all be able to agree that we should be able to marry other sentient beings. (I'm somehow reminded of Star Trek.) I don't see why what we have between our legs should dictate what type of human we are allowed to marry.
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