Don't Bother Trying to Figure Out the Gender of any Particular Human

There is so much talk among conservatives about who uses what rest room and about how to "teach" gender to children. Some people are simply born without a gender. In our own family we have two such people. It is healthy for them and for our society to have the mystery discussed publicly so perhaps there can be more understanding of it. 

In the Des Moines Register this morning is an op ed by a young person running for the state Legislature. The writer wonders what would happen if he/she were elected. The Legislature spends a lot of time each year solemnly discussing who should be allowed to use gender labeled rest rooms and whether books children read should refer to people who identify with both genders. 

Always these legislators want an individual's private parts to determine what gender the person calls him/herself. As the writer notes, it is no one else's business what one's private parts look like. I got to thinking if I, myself, were in the legislature I would introduce a bill requiring all elected people to be inspected by an official and a determination of gender awarded.

As the writer points out, there is no such thing in human experience as binary gender. Since the beginning of known history there have been people who are not of one gender but of both. 

For people who are upset by this, there is a solution. Get over it.