I got a letter to the editor published in the LA Times regarding the Vilain article I posted.

Here is the letter:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...1,3136823.story

And here is the original article:

http://www.bodieslikeours.org/forum...s=&threadid=760

Betsy

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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. --Margaret Mitchell

I'm getting a registration prompt - did you save a copy of it?

Glenn

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printed...1,1258154.story
COMMENTARY
Defining Sex for Marriage

April 24, 2004

Re "Gender Blender: Intersexual? Transsexual? Male, female aren't so easy to define," Commentary, April 19: Eric Vilain brings up some important points regarding the futility of attempting to legislate what makes someone male or female for the sake of marriage. However, he fails to recognize that most intersex people are satisfied in the gender they were raised in, and those cases may end up being the most troubling.

Many intersex people are never told the truth about genital surgeries done during childhood. If sex reassignment takes place during childhood and that person successfully identifies in the gender that matches his or her genitals, under Texas law the person could be denied the right to marry even as a heterosexual. We would only hope that this little tidbit of information hadn't been kept from the person, only to result in a nasty surprise at the altar, if marriage were to be legally defined as one XY man, one XX woman. The issue is much more than anatomy for people born with an intersex condition.

Betsy Driver

Executive Director

Bodies Like Ours



Easton, Pa.


Copyright 2004 Los Angeles Times

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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. --Margaret Mitchell

excerpt from article:

-The Texas Court of Appeals referred to sex provided by "our creator" as opposed to sex created by physicians and rejected "man-made" sexual organs.-

Certain IGM then would be defined as man-made; i.e. micropenis into vagina.
"Creator's" sex would be male; but then legalized (lawful) sex of female would be "rejected" by law.
How dumb!!

Result: The person would be in a "twilight zone":(

Dana