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Monday, May 23, 2016
Reading Our Birth Certificates, Obama's Way
I WALKED UP to the new director at my local small town senior center, a nice looking sixty four year old lay I really should ask out, and instead asked: "If I happen, some fine day, to arrive at our senior center self identifying as a woman, which restroom should I use?" I was half serious, half wanting to crack her up. My timing was bad: she nearly choked on her lunch, barely won her struggle to get it going in the right direction, and I thought maybe it would have been better to ask her for a date, or to leave her alone entirely. But her answer, when it came, was unequivocal: use the men's room. I live in a state, you see, one of three or four so far, which has decided to defy the Edict of Obama, that we be allowed to choose our restroom, and it seems our local senior center is on board with the defiance of federal law. (I hope we don't all end up in the slammer, or another civil war. I hear Obama's reach is long...) So, even if I'm feelin' fem, I gotta use the men's room at the senior center. But what if I have gender reassignment surgery, in which my genitals are reversed and I acquire large breasts, and start wearing dresses? what then? Use the men's room? Read my birth certificate? If a surgeon removes a man's genitals, builds into him a vagina and breasts, is the person still a man? Really? What do the sex change surgeons say about this? What do the medical, biological, and anatomical experts have to say about it? Shouldn't we accept the findings of true experts, regardless of what we wish to believe? Laws like the one passed in North Carolina in which the true sex of everyone is on the birth certificate, and sex changes are invalid... might be, a bit...well...unrealistic? The Edict of Obama says that transgenders must use the restroom of their new sex, not their birth certificate sex. The rest of us are still to be constrained by birth certificate fact. American men must all ask: do we want Caitlyn Jenner and his/her ilk using the men's room, or the women's?
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