A Question to People Who Choose to Define Marriage Between a Man And a Woman Exclusively

This is actually something I wrote elsewhere, but meant as a blog post before I started my blog.

I have a question I raise to those who choose to define Marriage as specifically between a Man and a Woman ; How do you define a Man and how do you define a Woman?

Take a moment to think your answer through, then read on.


Ok


Did you define based on genitalia?

A man has a Penis and Testicles and a Woman has a Vagina?

This is the most common chosen definition. But where does this leave those people who have both? There are many Intersexed (Hermaphodite) conditions which leave chidlren born with either both or with something more ambiguous or undefineable.Where does your definition leave them? For years a gender was forced on these children at birth. Doctors decide which Genitals to remove or hide and they are labelled at birth, nowadays they are more often left to make their choices when they grow up.

If you believe in God, then God chose to make these children of both genders.


Did you jump to the genetic definition? XX and XY chromosomes.

This doesn't work either. The conditions causing ambiguous genitalia in the previous section are caused by Chromome matchs outside the XX and XY usually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersexuality (warning, medical photographs with nudity)

There are even conditions which leave a child specifically with two different sets of DNA. A person could have both XX and XY as a result of Mosiacism or Chimerism.


Do you define gender based on reproductive functionality? A woman produces eggs and carries babies and a man produces sperm? There are large numbers of people who are sterile or infertile, many all their lives. By this definition they are genderless and you just denied them marriage. You are free to feel and think as you will about Gays and Lesbians marrying, however how would you feel if your same choice in our laws left your own intersexed child unable to marry? There are many things you can choose to ignore or argue against about both sexuality and ones gender, but it is impossible to define male and female as a definative black and white existance within humanity.

Please do not make decisions on behalf of the rest of humanity on issues you know absolutely nothing about. You would`t want people voting away your rights based on some medical condition you may have, or which your children may have or could be born with.