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**Flikemommoilt** · 03-20-2009, 05:00 PM

She's 22 and doesn't even have a ranking, so I guess I'm not following what the big deal is. Though I guess I'd feel differently if I were female and had to compete against her all the time at local tournaments.

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This certainly challenges our narrow social views of gender. That's a good thing because we need to think about this more. Credit to her parents, though, for not forcing a gender upon her when she was an infant. There's a wealth of anecdotal evidence from intersex people who describe that as the ultimate cruelty because their parents chose a gender, usually at the urging of a physician, quite contrary to what feels natural to them later in life.

03-20-2009, 05:00 PM	#3
Flikemommoilt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	She's 22 and doesn't even have a ranking, so I guess I'm not following what the big deal is. Though I guess I'd feel differently if I were female and had to compete against her all the time at local tournaments. :: This certainly challenges our narrow social views of gender. That's a good thing because we need to think about this more. Credit to her parents, though, for not forcing a gender upon her when she was an infant. There's a wealth of anecdotal evidence from intersex people who describe that as the ultimate cruelty because their parents chose a gender, usually at the urging of a physician, quite contrary to what feels natural to them later in life.
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