Self Identifying, As None Of the Above

WE ARE STARTING TO AGREE, despite strenuous conservative opposition, that we all have the right to self identify. We are who we say we are, and what we say we are. Potential problems with this are obvious, but we'll find a way to work it out. My great grandparents came to America from Bavaria, but by God if I want to call myself "African-American" because I choose to trace my ancestry all the way back to the start, that's my choice. But if people start self identifying as the God of Mars, the King of England, or Superman, or heaven knows what else, the rest of us might have to invoke the right to be skeptical and dismissive. If gay marriage opens up marriage to any combination of people and things under the sun, as it does not at first glance seem to, well then, so be it. If somebody decides to marry a flag pole, nobody has to pay any attention. However, society is going to have to give serious consideration, very serious consideration, to acknowledging and accepting transgenders, in their new, or most recent gender incarnation. Most recent, because a fair number of people have already reassigned their individual gender more than once, sometimes several times. You almost wonder if they are confused, and if anyone might be able to help. But we must not be judgmental. This, all this confusion and identity changing, perhaps, was predictable. Let's face it, anybody who goes to the trouble to make a complete transition, in dress style, behavior, and personal identity, means business, and anybody who goes to all the trouble to undergo sexual reassignment surgery, with the tinkering with the sex organs, and all that - really means business, and should be taken seriously, and respected. With one and a half million transgender people in the United Stats, if its a perversion, sin, or sickness, it sure as hell is a widespread one, widespread enough to make one wonder whether transgenderism might somehow, someway, for some unknown reason, be part of nature's plan. Its been around for a long time, just like homosexuality, but swept under the rug in less "enlightened" cultures. In Washington state, there is a fifty two year old retired tank mechanic who changed into a woman, then just the other day, won her case in court to be allowed to change into another gender, specifically, no gender. To be gender free, non binary, what is sometimes called "gender queer", denoting the absence of any firm, fixed, well defined gender status. Free to be a man one day, a woman the next, or any combination thereof, whenever one pleases. Weird as that sounds now, we may all end up with this sort of designation some day, just to avoid legal complications. Meanwhile, I'm thinking seriously of reintroducing myself to the world - as a genderless extraterrestrial being. Its my god given right, so it seems, and besides, maybe there's money in it.-------SUPPORT FREE EXPRESSION AND CREATIVITY! PLEASE SHARE THIS WEBSITE WITH OTHERS! THANKS!