{"id":385101,"date":"2018-11-15T05:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T04:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-have-an-identity-problem\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T05:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T04:22:51","slug":"we-have-an-identity-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-have-an-identity-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have an Identity Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to a recent report in The New York Times, Health and Human Services Department officials have been circulating a proposal to define sex. Their memo says, \u201cSex means a person\u2019s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.\u201d They add, \u201cThe sex listed on a person\u2019s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person\u2019s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.\u201d I think the latter statement lacks complete rigor. It\u2019s chromosomes, not what\u2019s on a birth certificate, that determine one\u2019s sex. Therefore, if a fetus has XX chromosomes, a female is born, and if a fetus has XY chromosomes, a male is born.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s an open-and-shut case in biology can become confused in the political\/social arena<\/span>, particularly when one\u2019s sex is referred to as one\u2019s gender. By the way, before modern times, the term gender was used solely when referring to the grammar of some languages, such as French, in which nouns and pronouns are masculine, feminine or neuter and require words syntactically associated with them. Gender has become completely disassociated with biological reasoning. For example, in the past when a person signed up for a Facebook account, \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d were the only options. In 2014, Facebook introduced 50 gender options, including intersex, gender nonconforming, non-binary and androgynous (http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y9sb3a3j<\/a>).
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In addition to the muddying of waters about one\u2019s sex, race has become muddied. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has long claimed that she has Native American heritage. Harvard University and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to a recent report in The New York Times, Health and Human Services Department officials have been circulating a proposal to define sex. Their memo says, \u201cSex means a person\u2019s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.\u201d They add, \u201cThe sex listed on a person\u2019s birth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}