Gender ID [message #6353] |
Thu, 24 December 2009 12:04  |
mkemp Messages: 421 Registered: April 2006 |
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"Pakistan's Supreme Court says eunuchs must be allowed to identify themselves as a distinct gender in order to ensure their rights."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8428819.stm
Kinda on-topic here, but possibly in the wrong place.
Moderators, please move this if necessary.
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Re: Gender ID [message #6361] |
Fri, 29 January 2010 04:40  |
Eric Messages: 641 Registered: January 2003 Location: San Francisco |
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Have you read Commitment Hour, by James Alan Gardner (Avon, 1998)?
From the jacket of the SF Book Club hardcover edition:
Quote: | Imagine changing sex from year to year until the age of 20. Then imagine that you must choose a gender to commit to: male or female. And that, by law, if you choose to be different -- to be both -- you become an outcast, despised, exiled or even killed.
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As you might guess/hope, things start looking better for the IS-wannabes before the story ends...
(Gardner, born 1955, is a Canadian writer of science fiction and computer documentation, who won a Writers of the Future award in 1989. Commitment Hour is his second novel.)
Eric
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