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| By dmilr - Jan 15, 2010 7:09:55 AM PT |
How would the creators of Prop 8, and what I believe is the fundorightist approach to BigLaw, handle this scenerio:
What if a person is born with an exactly equal 50/50 hermaphro split of gender?
Would that person get to chose a spouse? What about the other 1/2? Would half a person have full rights to marry/adopt and 1/2 not? Whom would decide which half to legally recognize? Would that be put up to vote? Would the courts have any say?
And depending on the answers how would those answers impact their defense of prop 8. If marriage is strictly between one man and one woman - ...
How would you logically deny the right to marry to half a person? and thus, a whole person?
What if a person is born with an exactly equal 50/50 hermaphro split of gender?
Would that person get to chose a spouse? What about the other 1/2? Would half a person have full rights to marry/adopt and 1/2 not? Whom would decide which half to legally recognize? Would that be put up to vote? Would the courts have any say?
And depending on the answers how would those answers impact their defense of prop 8. If marriage is strictly between one man and one woman - ...
How would you logically deny the right to marry to half a person? and thus, a whole person?
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Basically, whenever people are born with genetic or other sorts of defects that give them ambiguous sex organs, the parents choose and doctors attempt to work with them physically in the hopes of giving them a normal life as one sex or the other. I imagine that with the current state of technology, they would usually decide it based on genetics - i.e., they'd try to get the sex organs to match the sex chromosomes.
Basically, I think it's a nice idea, but there is no conceivable way that a person could exist that the people you're talking about wouldn't find some reason to categorize as one sex or the other. There's just not biological support for someone half male, half female; I don't think you could ever have a case that would be so ambiguous that the law would actually have no idea or no basis to classify them as one or the other.