Gender-Confusion

Women don't have, cannot boast, and don't actually hanker after, dangly bits in the genital area.  Their dangly bits are further to the north-end of the human anatomy.  When, in gender-alterations to change sex  to reflect an individual's psychic identification, the dangly bits are reversed through surgery and hormones, the bodily profile is clarified to reflect the new gender designation.

And that is how it has traditionally been in the process of legally changing sex roles.  A long, determined process, costly, time-consuming, legal-involving and ending with state and social recognition.  Just how determined someone has to be to undergo that change in terms of time is years in the making - between five and ten.  Just how costly it can be to fund that change is also revealing; approximately $20,000 for  male-to-female, and $60,000 for female-to-male.

But social situations seem to be in huge flux, particularly lately, as society and the law adjusts itself to ongoing demands.  Now, according to a new order from the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, a man needn't necessarily have his penis surgically removed to qualify as a female.  And the Rights Tribunal has given the Government of Ontario 180 days to "revise the criteria for changing sex designation on a birth registration".

Which is a little ingenuous to begin with: an individual, whether or not they're satisfied with the gender they're born with, usually is one or the other.  Medical practise is to recognize the gender and record it.  Proud parents accept that their children are either male or female, and for them rarely is there a question of puzzlement over which it should be, although in rare cases the genital area can be confusing.

Some are concerned that those who took the requisite steps to completely undergo the physical transformation to legally qualify for the sought-after designation will now be hugely offended that the requirements are relaxed for those fortunate others who don't, after all, have to do the same.  According to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.

And, truth to tell, it is rather amazing the powers of discernment and equality of opportunity and just desserts those rights tribunals have achieved.  Taking their lessons from nature or God, to pronounce the last word on the wisdom of the ages.  Of course for anyone who decides to change their mind after having undergone the entire irreversible procedure, the result may be regret that God or nature initially was so resolute.

It's a free world we live in and we're given free rein to do as we wish, on again off again.  All it takes is one woman who decides to retain her testicles.  And, to balance the equation, one man who decides he would like, on second thought, to become a mother after all.