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So my daughter and her girlfriend stopped by last night. I love those two dearly but sometimes you just have to calmly and politely hit them with the logic.
Obviously, they're gay. I'm fine with that. I know my daughter, understand her and love her unconditionally. Of course, she and her girlfriend's personal preferences tend to make them a bit more liberal minded than I am. That's ok too, as long as we all accept logic and simple human biology.
So, the other night they were showing my wife a TicToc about a woman who has been going through transition therapy to become a man. This person truly looks and sounds like a man. However since she still has her reproductive organs, she decided she wanted to birth her own child. The kids were enamored of how this person was espousing that he was the child's "Dad" but had experienced the gift of carrying the child inside "his" body and bearing it.
I pointed out that his entire argument had been made utterly moot by his choice to have a baby. There is no possible scientific or rational way this woman can claim to be a man. It is physiologically impossible for a man to have a baby. As a male, I can feel more natural as a woman, I can go through therapy to change my physical traits but at the end of the day, I cannot escape my dna. I can't do it. If I contribute ANY dna to a child, that dna will contain a Y chromosome. No matter what therapy I undergo, no matter how badly I wish otherwise, the chromosomes don't lie.
I pointed out that it would be as logical for me to claim that I identified as a full-blood Native American and that no tribal council had any right to suggest otherwise. I have just as much right to claim that I identify as a 67 year old man and wish to claim my Social Security benefits in full. There is absolutely JUST as much physical and biological evidence backing those claims as any claim I might make that I am a "woman".
The kids attempted to argue that you don't have to be tied to your gender, that you can choose to be something else, and I said - how do you get around your chromosomes? You are aware that you do not have a Y chromosome. So even if science through some miraculous process managed to allow two women to share their genetic material and produce offspring, there is no way whatsoever that those women could have a boy. It's utterly impossible. Ironically, the same process with men could allow for boys and girls to be born, although the odds of having a YY chromosomal serial killer would be about as likely.
My daughter's girlfriend is Mexican and when I pointed out to her that I had every right to identify as Mexican as well and that I deserved all the minority benefits available due to my minority heritage, you could see she was appalled. It seems white folks can't be anything but white folks. Although for some reason they have every right to be men, women, or something in between.
Obviously, they're gay. I'm fine with that. I know my daughter, understand her and love her unconditionally. Of course, she and her girlfriend's personal preferences tend to make them a bit more liberal minded than I am. That's ok too, as long as we all accept logic and simple human biology.
So, the other night they were showing my wife a TicToc about a woman who has been going through transition therapy to become a man. This person truly looks and sounds like a man. However since she still has her reproductive organs, she decided she wanted to birth her own child. The kids were enamored of how this person was espousing that he was the child's "Dad" but had experienced the gift of carrying the child inside "his" body and bearing it.
I pointed out that his entire argument had been made utterly moot by his choice to have a baby. There is no possible scientific or rational way this woman can claim to be a man. It is physiologically impossible for a man to have a baby. As a male, I can feel more natural as a woman, I can go through therapy to change my physical traits but at the end of the day, I cannot escape my dna. I can't do it. If I contribute ANY dna to a child, that dna will contain a Y chromosome. No matter what therapy I undergo, no matter how badly I wish otherwise, the chromosomes don't lie.
I pointed out that it would be as logical for me to claim that I identified as a full-blood Native American and that no tribal council had any right to suggest otherwise. I have just as much right to claim that I identify as a 67 year old man and wish to claim my Social Security benefits in full. There is absolutely JUST as much physical and biological evidence backing those claims as any claim I might make that I am a "woman".
The kids attempted to argue that you don't have to be tied to your gender, that you can choose to be something else, and I said - how do you get around your chromosomes? You are aware that you do not have a Y chromosome. So even if science through some miraculous process managed to allow two women to share their genetic material and produce offspring, there is no way whatsoever that those women could have a boy. It's utterly impossible. Ironically, the same process with men could allow for boys and girls to be born, although the odds of having a YY chromosomal serial killer would be about as likely.
My daughter's girlfriend is Mexican and when I pointed out to her that I had every right to identify as Mexican as well and that I deserved all the minority benefits available due to my minority heritage, you could see she was appalled. It seems white folks can't be anything but white folks. Although for some reason they have every right to be men, women, or something in between.
