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on Mixed-sex human embryo created
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:13:46 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Jamie McCarthy <jamie () mccarthy vg> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:55:02 -0400 To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Cc: NRLC () nrlc org Subject: Re: [IP] Mixed-sex human embryo created What I find disgusting is not the research, but that people have started to imply that a so-called "she-male" is inhuman and intolerable: "must send shivers down the spines of the public" "The creation of a 'she-male' is disgusting" Keep in mind that we're talking about a few hundred cells. The legislative director of National Right to Life was quoted as objecting: "Each member of the species Homo sapiens is genetically male or female from conception" That's simply not true. People are born with ambiguous gender. To label them as not human is wrong; they are people just like the rest of us. Gender-reassignment surgery, making a major or minor alteration in physical makeup of the genitals, is more common than most of us realize. NOVA did an excellent program two years ago on what happened to a baby who underwent that surgery and lived through childhood in what apparently was the wrong body: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/gender/ There is nothing wrong with such people, except that they must endure a culture that tries to force them to fit norms they cannot. As the links off that page make clear, there are people who are not "genetically male or female." I just found a very interesting homepage here (but its author died last year, sadly). I challenge the National Right to Life (Cc'd) to say that the author of this webpage was not a member of our species: http://hermaphrodite.arriba.net/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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