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Author: AgProv

Jun 11th 2012 at 7:11:08 AM

still being pernickity...

Thank you for sympathy...  I was referring to the law and its practical interpretation being many, many, years behind great leaps ahead in medical technology. Law relating to gender identity  in most Western domains, especially Britain and the USA, went back a long long way and effectively equated gender with the witnessed possession at birth  of the matching set of genitals and secondary sexual characteristics. The law in 2000AD defining primary gender being exactly what it had been in 1000AD, basically. If you were recorded at birth by the professional medical witness as male or female, that was it for life, and that was how you stayed. (This caused great distress in the USA for a hermaphrodite wrongly classed as female - as the doctor presiding felt he had to make a definite choice one way or the other. corrective plastic surgery removed visible external evidence of masculinity, leaving her apparently female.  It became abundantly clear as "she" grew up that the person self-defined as male....)