Does DeSantis know that there are intersex people?

[milestogo]

1.7% of the population are born with intersex traits. Their gender is ambiguous. This is a scientific fact.

Gender is not "assigned at birth" for everyone. I don't think parents should be forced to put their infants under the knife to make things clearer for those who can't tolerate this.

It scares me that people who are ignorant of the facts get to make policy.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/10/its-intersex-awareness-day-here-are-5-myths-we-need-to-shatter/

[Walleye]

1. Hell, many of them don't even know how babies are made

[yardwork]

2. DeSantis is a whiny little weirdo.

[Danascot]

3. Trans men

Link to tweet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Do you think he gives a shit?

[malaise]

5. Yes

I know of two such persons. Nothing is black and white - nature is full of grey areas.

But these cruel fuckers have terrorized others for as long as we know them.

[Takket]

6. I think......

1. He has never heard that word before.
2. If he has heard that word he finds it laughable, bullshit, and "woke".
3. He would have intersex persons jailed as child abusers if he had the chance.

[pfitz59]

7. He is a highly educated lawyer

playing the rubes for power. He knows, but also knows his base is clueless.

[grantcart]

12. Yep

Graduated cum laude from Yale where he was captain of the baseball team and cum laude from Harvard Law.

He is Nixonian. Going crazy right to get the nomination.

[pandr32]

19. Looks like he plans to stay "crazy right".

His thoughts become his actions. His actions become his values.

[Hortensis]

8. Not to mention every possible mix of enjoyments of sex.

Those bouncing off the ceilings about homosexuality etc NEVER mention the far greater numbers who are fine with mixing it up even if they have a preference.

As Pfitz said, I'm sure. They keep issues simple to not introduce confusion into opposition and the targets clearly defined and small enough to appear weak and defeatable. Such as not weakening their simplistic rhetoric with intersex realities.

Btw, the few laws I've actually read do keep medically necessary surgery legal. Vague, but I assume corrective surgeries for gender anomalies at birth would tend to fall under that. An intersex population wouldn't serve their black-or-white reactionary "ideology."

[localroger]

10. The problem is the vagueness discourages doctors

Even if a procedure might be technically legal, if there is doubt there might not be a doctor willing to perform the procedure because of the risk of prosecution. This is the problem with clearly lethal and unviable pregnancies in states with abortion bans.

[Hortensis]

16. Absolutely -- in the short term. One way and another, this will

be, and is being, fixed to facilitate medically necessary surgeries, with states looking to each other and medical associations for help in defining what's legal. For many, including surgeons, it's extremely personal and extremely important.

And of course court cases will also force revision or repeal of unworkable laws.

Until WE "repeal" the knuckledraggers inexcusably allowed the power to pass them.

[sanatanadharma]

9. All it takes to start the reversal of these stupid laws is for people to follow the law

A deliberate 'obedience' of the law by individuals such as pictured above (with lawyers) making a point of disagreement with the law; and of course, the reverse.

If gun-culture can intimidate society, then reality-culture can 'brandish' also in support of inclusion-culture.

[LakeArenal]

11. I have a friend born with no reproductive parts.

No public bathroom for them I guess.

No romantic life and a non-childbearing life for them I guess if Republicans had their way.

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. Turner Syndrome?

I know 2 individuals.

[LakeArenal]

32. I don't know. I met this person as an adult.

I only know what I’ve been told bit by bit over the years.

I don’t ask anything beyond what I’m told.

[KentuckyWoman]

13. He doesn't care.

None of them give one flaming twit about anyone's gender. I doubt they even care about other wealthy white "christian" hetero males let alone anyone else. Not other men of any sort, certainly not women.

What they care about is using the wedge of the day to keep us divided and increase personal power and wealth. All the rest is just made up bull feathers.

[elias7]

14. I like the term "registered at birth" for gender

Assigned makes it sound like an arbitrary and authoritative decision from a “doctor” who wields the power of gender assignment like a magic wand.

[dembotoz]

27. long form birth certificate????? Does obama still have options????

the moron right never accepted his birth certificate

[multigraincracker]

15. I always thought

Eve was a transgendered clone.

[paleotn]

21. Hehehe!

Good one.

[NNadir]

17. Desantis is simply ignorant. He doesn't know very much about anything except hatred.

[deurbano]

18. What about when my husband needs to help our quadriplegic daughter in a public

bathroom? Do they arrest him in the Women's or her in the Men's?

[niyad]

23. Over two decades ago, my late friend and faithful DU'er Betty, kept asking, "And

which bathroom am I supposed to take my quad husband into? " There were very few unisex bathrooms back then, even in CA.

[paleotn]

20. Biology is messy. There are no clean, neat cubbyholes.

The sooner 50% of our population accepts that the better. They also need to embrace the concept of MOB (mind own business) and they'll have plenty to keep them busy. Someone else's, particularly someone they don't even know, gender and sexuality has zero impact on them. It's simply none of their damn business.

[Blue Owl]

22. Now don't go pudding thoughts in his thick head.....

[GoCubsGo]

24. DeSantis doesn't know much of anything, other than

how to be a cruel, hateful bag of shit.

[Biophilic]

25. Would he care if he did? Honestly he wouldn't.

The only people he cares about are himself, his wife (maybe) and possibly his children, but if I were his kids I wouldn’t count on it. He is totally focused in Making Ron Great.

[MichMan]

28. Time to just make everything gender neutral

All bathrooms, locker rooms, sports, everything. Separate but equal doctrine was dismissed long ago.

[Dave says]

29. Do you think it would matter 1 bit if he did?

I don’t think so.

[LostOne4Ever]

30. Doesn't know and doesn't care

He hates everyone who is different

[Ms. Toad]

31. The bill expressly covers that.

(9)(a) “Sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures”
108 means:
109 . . . .
122 (b) The term does not include:
123 1. Treatment provided by a physician who, in his or her
124 good faith clinical judgment, performs procedures upon or
125 provides therapies to a minor born with a medically verifiable
126 genetic disorder of sexual development, including any of the
127 following:
128 a. External biological sex characteristics that are
129 unresolvably ambiguous.
130 b. A disorder of sexual development in which the physician
131 has determined through genetic or biochemical testing that the
132 patient does not have a normal sex chromosome structure, sex
133 steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action for a
134 male or female, as applicable.

[milestogo]

33. Thank you.