Yes but is there really any fear that the NK regime would pre-emptively launch one at Alaska or any US allies? It would be suicide, M.A.D.

Alright, maybe a dumb question, but so what if NK has these weapons? I understand that they are a nightmarishly brutal dictatorship that keeps their people in a near-starvation dystopian hellscape with the threat of labor camps and executions, but is there any indication that they are also suicidal? They aren’t going…

He’d have a process on hand specifically for sundae-making. And he’d pay workers well enough to purchase the sundaes.

Oh sorry, I got my threads mixed up and forgot that you were the person I was responding to about intersex children. Yes your comment makes much more sense in that light- (I was reading it just in the context of them knowing the sex at all and making everything about the sex). I don’t know enough about intersex to…

Yes I figured that’s what you meant. I just wanted to clarify for other commenters/readers too since it seems that most people don’t know that illegal immigrants cannot just “become citizens”. At the risk of causing confusion again, what do you mean by “most of those folks entered the country on visas legally”? Do…

Not only have I met doctors, but several have saved my life, including once from a cancer that affects female organs and causes secondary symptoms due to hormonal imbalances. Look, I get that we’d like to avoid pigeon-holing people by gender, but it’s crossing way into absurdity to pretend like sex has nothing to do…

Yeah I don’t understand the point of ordering table side guac in the first place. WTF sort of trend is that? Why does a person need to watch someone smash up their avocados instead of just letting it be done in the kitchen where the rest of their food is prepared? Yes, I never understood that, and luckily never had to…

Agree with you here, and probably this child is not intersex anyway. But I wanted to clarify that, for intersex children, we can accept that medical interventions to alter an intersex child’s organs is a harmful thing to do without denying that it would be beneficial for the child’s health for the doctor to know about…

Well we’ll see- I mean, neither of us have info that’s not in the article. But it stands out to me that they did not only oppose putting the sex on the bc, but also letting the doc know the sex in the first place. The later might just be an means to reach the end, but it still shows that they put their personal…

The parents could share that information with the doctor simply by allowing the baby to be examined. The fact that they won’t, shows that they put their social concerns about gender above any medical concerns they might have- they see it as primary importance to keep the sex a secret and secondary importance to…

You don’t determine gender with DNA (blood) testing. You can determine SEX with DNA testing, not gender.

Hey reread the piece, man. These are parents that will not let a doctor examine their baby because they want to keep it a secret from EVERYONE what junk their baby has. They are not going to get good medical care if it contradicts their opinions which is scary. Also sex doesn’t determine your gender, but it does…

Yes exactly. Medical records is the one place where it makes sense to include sex. I can’t really think of other documents that need it. If this were drivers license or passport or voter reg card, then it’s irrelevant, but it actually matters what organs and hormones you have to your medical biology.

Just to be clear, I know Indian bureaucracy is a crazy jungle and this might not exist across the whole country, but as far as I’m aware, third gender is already a thing in India. I just applied for my Indian passport a few weeks back and I had three legal options so this is definitely already a thing at least on that…

I thought of that, too. But surely if the child is intersex, it would be important to medically identify as such? I don’t know that much about it so maybe it’s not, but I thought that affected the growth of certain organs? Like, you’d need to follow up on development? Or maybe not?

Yes, but this means that the parents are going to have to have that conversation over and over again which seems rather pointless. I mean, I don’t give a shit if that floats their boat, but I also don’t get the point of pretending the child does not have a sex with all the associated sex hormones and organs, etc.

I mean, seriously. I thought the whole point was that gender and sex are different things? The child has no assigned gender, fine. But the child certainly has a sex, and the child’s sex has a ton of biological consequences.

I don’t think it matters whether or not it’s on the paperwork, whatever. Who cares. But I don’t…

A few things here... First off, to apply for citizenship, you already had some sort of legal immigration status. Or else you couldn’t have applied for citizenship in the first place. If you were undocumented, this would have been impossible which is why the Fox claim is ludicrous in the first place. (I understand that…

Potentially, I can follow your logic. The problem with that is that it is impossible. If you have entered the country illegal (not if you’ve just fallen out of status, but if you entered without a visa at all and never had a status to begin with) then there is no path to legal status for you. There is nothing you can…

That’s actually a thing. In Texas, if you work in the public sector at all or get out of your bubble in anyway, you know illegal immigrants. You probably work with their family members, your kids go to school with theirs, they might even be married into your own family. As a result, even many Republicans in Texas…