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kengr... expect to see the following scenes:
"I'm sorry, but you were born male, so you can't marry this man even though you've had gender re-assignment surgery" (already the law in several states!)
"Yes, you were born male, but you've had gender re-assignment surgery, so you can't marry this woman". (also the law in several states, and I'm told that in at least one, TSes can't marry *anyone*!!!)
"Your marriage is being annulled because your husband's relatives challenged it and our genetic tests show that you aren't an XX female" (possible under laws a few places, but hasn't come up *yet*).
And so on.
It's not merely that gays won't be able to marry gays. But that there are a *lot* of folks whose bodies don't match their genes. For example, androgen insensitivity will produce a person who is genetically an XY male, but physically a woman.
There are other effects that will cause an XX or XY baby to develop the "wrong" genitals or at least "ambiguous" ones.
And then you get into all the genetic combos *other* than XX and XY. Including people who have different genes in different parts of their bodies. Yes, such actually exist.
Together these amount to around 1 in 1000 in the population. That's roughly 300,000 in the US.
Sooner or later, these folks are going to *force* a break in the "there are only two, easily identifiable, sexes". Any law that pretends things are that simple is doomed. Because it'd require so much fiddling to "define" what was a "man" and what was a "woman" that all but the most "fanatic" judge would have to throw up his hands and say "this is not workable, nor is it fair."
But there will be a lot of unhappy folks in the meantime.
"I'm sorry, but you were born male, so you can't marry this man even though you've had gender re-assignment surgery" (already the law in several states!)
"Yes, you were born male, but you've had gender re-assignment surgery, so you can't marry this woman". (also the law in several states, and I'm told that in at least one, TSes can't marry *anyone*!!!)
"Your marriage is being annulled because your husband's relatives challenged it and our genetic tests show that you aren't an XX female" (possible under laws a few places, but hasn't come up *yet*).
And so on.
It's not merely that gays won't be able to marry gays. But that there are a *lot* of folks whose bodies don't match their genes. For example, androgen insensitivity will produce a person who is genetically an XY male, but physically a woman.
There are other effects that will cause an XX or XY baby to develop the "wrong" genitals or at least "ambiguous" ones.
And then you get into all the genetic combos *other* than XX and XY. Including people who have different genes in different parts of their bodies. Yes, such actually exist.
Together these amount to around 1 in 1000 in the population. That's roughly 300,000 in the US.
Sooner or later, these folks are going to *force* a break in the "there are only two, easily identifiable, sexes". Any law that pretends things are that simple is doomed. Because it'd require so much fiddling to "define" what was a "man" and what was a "woman" that all but the most "fanatic" judge would have to throw up his hands and say "this is not workable, nor is it fair."
But there will be a lot of unhappy folks in the meantime.
