Taking a stand against redefined sex classifications

To the Times: For decades society has been bombarded with a systematic attack to redefine America. Terms like patriotism, religion, family and morality have all been redefined to suit the purposes of whatever cause is foremost in the moment. Even the annals of history have been rewritten so that one group or another can spin an advantage. In what is clearly a further attempt at manipulating society, the Pennsylvania Human Resources Commission (PHRC) has embarked on yet another such campaign: redefining the biological classification of “sex.”

The science of biology has always looked at a species and answered fundamental questions to define and classify that species. Among its most basic criterion is the establishment of sex: male or female. Humanity has consistently fallen into those categories since the creation of Adam and Eve! Any variants were medically, scientifically and accurately understood to be mutations. This fact of unquestioned, biological trait is the reason that “sex” is included in the state Discrimination Code. There are a few protected classes listed in the code and all of them, with one exception, are based upon predetermined qualities of genetics and birth outside of an individual’s choices. For example, “race, color, familial status … ancestry, age, sex, national origin, handicap or disability.” The exception, of course, is “religious creed” the singularly unique protection organic to America’s founding.

The basis of science is that which is “observable;” the biological sex of a human is the observable physical traits that are further identified by microscopic analysis of the genetic code – the physical blueprint of the body. An individual’s state of mind does not change or alter the genetic code nor does it change the biological classification. However, the PHRC, with the issuance of a “guidance statement,” is redefining centuries of accepted science. According to this statement, if an individual who is genetically, biologically male is treated as a male then he is potentially being discriminated based on sex – a victim of “sexual stereotyping.” What has changed? Nothing of the predetermined qualities of genetics, but only the mindset or thought process of the “victim.” The adjusted policy by the PHRC does not solve or resolve an issue of civil rights but rather highlights the conflict of “what a person is” versus “what a person does.” So, should the PHRC open the Pandora’s Box of creating a protected class on that basis?

Every law or policy should be examined to note the concern of “unintended consequences” and this policy statement by the PHRC should be no exception. To apply civil rights to the category of “what a person does” means that any behavior at all deserves that same protection! Drug addiction, kleptomania, or any practice of bizarre behaviors are to be accepted and equal under the law – in essence, there will be no people’s law, simply totalitarian dictates. A behavior will only be right if the state deems it right and transversely, a behavior will only be wrong when the state deems it to be wrong. In fact, the implementation of such a policy would eradicate two additional, fundamental, natural rights as identified in the original Pennsylvania Charter, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the current Constitution of our Commonwealth, namely the Liberty of Conscience and the Rights Property.

Further, the PHRC should not be redefining terms in existing regulation to suit their agenda. Clearly, at the passage of the law, the meaning was clear and defined and, apparently, accepted and approved by the citizen electorate as well. Therefore, redefining of terms is not what is included in the mandate of regulation enforcement.

I oppose the suggested policy statements for both of Intellectual the PHRA and the PFEOA based on their rejection of defined and accepted science, the conflict of laws and regulations based on a person’s behavior (rather than their being), the danger of unintended consequences that these statements will foment, and the overreach of the Commission to change existing law by altering the definition of terms included in the law.

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