My initial thought is of Bolt. No one is questioning his 'maleness' when he breaks his own world records. Or Lance Armstrong. No one says, 'Test his gender. Test his hormone levels, or chemical make-up, or genetics.' What does this mean exactly? What level are women held to? Or, not held to?
I feel proud to identify with her as a woman.
A quote from Feministing.com
Alice Dreger, a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University, appropriately, has the last word in the NYT article, and I'll give it to her here as well: "At the end of the day, they are going to have to make a social decision on what counts as male and female, and they will wrap it up as if it is simply a scientific decision. And the science actually tells us sex is messy. Or as I like to say, 'Humans like categories neat, but nature is a slob.' "
On another note about my pride for my gender -
Thanks for taking us seriously! (see also 'dripping with satire')
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