Gender confusion

Last Thursday’s paper had two articles highlighting people who want to blur the lines of male and female.

In the same paper we are also told that a change is in the works that allows people to amend the gender on their birth certificate.

The bill would also allow an ‘X’ option besides the traditional ‘M’ and ‘F.’

I urge Sarah Dowie and our Parliamentarians to reject this attempt at social engineering. People are born either as girls or boys (except for a very few born as ‘‘intersex’’).

They have an identifying genetic code that doesn’t change throughout their life, no matter what hormones they take or surgeries they undergo.

Birth records are records of facts and identification.

This revisionist mentality wants to change history, to change facts.

It shouldn’t be done.

If gender is open to change on the records, why not birth date? (An American man is suing to change his age on his birth certificate.)

And why not be able to change who your parents are if you come to hate them?

Our current feelings do not alter any of the earlier facts.

We cannot alter the way we were born.

We did not choose what gender we were born with. That was in God’s hands.

‘‘From the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.’’

Art Brammer