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Carol Andrew commented on this post about 1 month agoIs the Israel & Palestine too sensitive an issue to discuss here? I mean the historical rights and wrongs that bring us to this point.Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
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Carol Andrew commented on this post about 1 month agoI have a suggested topic for debate. There are many people pushing for the right to declare their own Gender, while those who believe Gender is assigned by nature and polarised. Here is my view on the topic.
First point is what does the dictionary say. Sex is certainly polarised, Gender on the other hand takes into consideration a persons preferences and inclinations. I think this is the heart of the issue. Gender is a word that has been used as an alternative to the word Sex for years...I have a suggested topic for debate. There are many people pushing for the right to declare their own Gender, while those who believe Gender is assigned by nature and polarised. Here is my view on the topic.More
First point is what does the dictionary say. Sex is certainly polarised, Gender on the other hand takes into consideration a persons preferences and inclinations. I think this is the heart of the issue. Gender is a word that has been used as an alternative to the word Sex for years and many people are unaware of it's true meaning. Just like the word Decimated is often used to describe something that is totally destroyed, when in fact it means to reduce by 10%. There are many words in the English language that change their meaning over the years. Gender has been one of those words
Next point then is Gender polarised or on a spectrum. Clearly since we have not only straight Men and Women, we have people of each Sex who display higher levels of Testosterone or Female hormones etc than what is typical of their sex. This leads to men who feel like women, and women who feel like men, and with sexual preference being different again. A man who likes to dress as a woman, is not necessarily gay. So clearly in the true meaning of the word Gender, than yes gender is a spectrum.
I am therefore in total agreement that a person may choose their own Gender. BUT
They should not be given the right to force that decision on other people. The idea that a man can claim to be a woman and therefore use women's toilets and enter women's sports etc is ludicrous. The "I am" therefore you must accept is wrong.
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An interesting subject
I totally agree that an adult should be able to choose which gender they identify as BUT I think there should be a minimum More ... -
Yes, the points raised are all valid points such as cross gender Olympics etc, but my question is why? Why do we all need to pamper to people More ...
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I do believe that there are a few people who have a real problem because, due to an abnormality, they really are the wrong gender. I really feel More ...
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Carol Andrew I agree, with the "its fashionable" statement, my problem is that the minority now seem to be more important in this world than the More ...
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I wonder how schools deal with this subject, if it´s anything along the lines of the way they handled sex education then it could explain why more More ...
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Tracy Ann If you are old fashioned then so am I, At that age the subject should not even be discussed at school.
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Historians and commentators offer differing opinions as to when this chapter of history begins. In her series Al Nakba (2008) on Al Jazeera, documentary maker Rawan Damen begins her story with Napoleon Bonaparte, who proposed a Jewish homeland in Palestine as long ago as 1799 in the wake of the siege of Acre during his war against the Ottoman Empire.'
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