A judge has ruled that a five year old Oakville boy should be permitted to pick a gender that is at odds with his chromosomes. His parents are separated and his mother claims that the boy, to use a phrase I have come to loathe, self-identifies as a girl; the father disagrees.
The case has come before the courts and the judge has ruled that “the boy should be dressed as he wishes and not unilaterally pushed toward either a male or a female identity.” The case bears a passing resemblance to a much earlier one where Solomon ruled that a disputed child should be divided in half and each half given to the two women claiming to be his mother. Justice Sheilagh O’Connell, not having the wisdom of Solomon, did not rule that the top half of the child be dressed as a boy and the bottom half as a girl. It would probably have done little to shake the mother’s conviction that the objective reality of her son’s sex should not be a determining factor in his upbringing.
I was a guest at a wedding yesterday and had been asked by the bride’s father to take some candid photos of the event. When the time came to take a photo of all the men, I was preoccupied with photos of my own, so I missed being in the official men’s photo. A woman asked me why I wasn’t in it. The conversation went something like this:
Woman: Why aren’t you in the photo?
Me (deciding to have a little fun): Because I self-identify as a woman.
Woman (not in the least nonplussed): Well why weren’t you in the women’s photo, then?
Me: They wouldn’t let me.
Woman: That’s terrible.
The laughable thing about that is not only was I taken seriously, but the part that shocked the woman was that I, a not particularly effeminate man (I just verified that with my wife) – other than the long nails on my right hand used for guitar playing, an embellishment balanced by the chewed nails on my left hand – was not allowed to pretend to be a woman.
The next wedding I attend, I will be self-identifying as a poached egg to see how that works out.
First part sad and absurd. Second part killingly funny!
Best part of the story was that the father of the boy took all the girly clothing out back and set them afire as his son watched. The abusive mother is nuts, so is the judge, and Dad self-identifies as a father.
Would the woman in question have been nonplussed if you followed her into the ladies’ room to explain yourself?
Now, David, if you knew the difference between a phrase and a clause I might even fancy eating you…
Let me know how all of this works out folks. As for me, I am going to retire to Bedlam.
Saw something on the news last week about a white woman working for the NAACP who insists that she is “black”. So I have decided to self identify as a 5’0″ 100 pound anorexic black lesbian who is gender confused and thinking about becoming a man. Even though I am actually a 6’1″ 260 pound white man I expect all of you to be tolerant and inclusive and sensitive to me.
Asked and answered.
All joking aside, since when is a five-year old in any position to be able to decide even most basic things, like going to school, or eating breakfast, much less whether to change gender?
As one who has worked in the legal ‘biz’ for quite a number of years I am struck by the tremendous waste of time these stupid matters are brought before a judge. These people need counseling not a ‘judges order’. Of course given the talent that passes for being anointed a judge these days…………it is likely one of few decisions this particular one will ever make. For shame!
Gender is the new gay. I thought it would be poligimany (yes, not a typo) So clothing stores will be next on the human rights chopping block for not giving Bubba a bra fitting.
I can see a future Victoria Secret catalog being sued for not having sequined jock straps.
So if one half of a gay male marriage gets a sex change is he/she still considered gay?
Can you be like Rachel Dolezan and ask to become a black person? Is there a pill for that?
Enquiring minds and all that….
Next the push will be for churches to re-baptize in the chosen mode. I would suggest an Adventist version and just keep their head under until they see the error.
Almost left off laughing! If a five year person with a penis testicles identifies as a female without same appurtances, well, It needs psychiatric treatment, but not in Canada which will just lop the offending paricles off on demand! Even Johns Hopkins doesn’t do this anymore, since the 1970s.
“It” is tragically the right pronoun, if some money-loving surgeon actually does this terrible irrevocable thing.
Italian parents are staging a massive protest, “Defend Our Children”, against such EU “gender ideology”, to be held Saturday, June 20 (take note first time’rainbow’ flag bestrewn Yorkminster, UK), in Saint John Lateran Square, Rome, with even a preparatory word of Papal approval issued on Sunday, June 14, 2015, calling this destructive ‘educational’ enterprise,
“ideological colonization (of)…strange ideas…(which) can destroy a society, a community, or a family”. C.c. Archbishop of Toronto re. the Wynne “colonization”.
Any ACC Bishops, CoE BIshops, …ABC agreement…? “peradventure ten……”? + Genesis 18:32