Gender-bending and marriage laws

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Thursday November 13, 2008 · 6:48 PM PST

2008/11/13 · 18:48

Simple biology might be the undoing of Proposition 8's definition of marriage as being between a man or a woman. That is, if votes, courts, demonstrations or just plain common sense doesn't get there first.

What's that? What can be more simple and obvious than that simple sentence "Marriage is defined as being between one man and one woman"?

Reading through the BBC today, I came upon this gem. Simply put, gender can be ambiguous. "Male" and "female" are not clear cut concepts. What about transgendered individuals such as the "man" in the article who is pregnant? What about those whose sex chromosomes don't conform to the standard XX for women or XY for men? Who decides who is qualified to marry whom? Getting a marriage license in California could involve a lot more than dropping one's drawers.

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