I think it sheds more light on what it means to be female.
From the report,
When a girl with normal sex organs was born, doctors started scratching their heads. Most females with a Y chromosome have underdeveloped gonads that are prone to developing tumours and usually removed. However, when surgeons operated with the intention of removing the gonads they found normal-looking ovaries in the girl, and took only a tissue sample. This sample, too, looked normal.
Right, lots of people have genetic anomolies and ambiguous genitalia and gender, but most of us aren't. This girl and others like her shouldn't be used by Transhumanists to overthrow gender altogether and force us all to be postgendered.
ReplyDeleteIf we pass an Egg and Sperm law like Missouri's, this girl, like all legal females, will only be allowed to procreate with a man (and should only be allowed to marry a man). She may not be able to do that and may seek a fertility lab for assistance. The lab would offer to help her and her husband procreate and begin assisting her to get pregnant by her husband. But the Egg and Sperm law would include definitions of "man" and "woman" that are designed to stop people from conceiving as their "other" sex, and allowing people to conceive only as the sex they are most likely to be successful as with a random genetically 'normal' person. So if they determine in helping this woman conceive that she'd have better luck producing viable sperm than eggs, then they will have to tell her that they cannot help her get pregnant. But that would just be a private infertility, it wouldn't void the marriage or require her to change her sex to male or anything ridiculous. It just forbids the lab from attempting what would be the same genetic modification that they're forbidden from attempting for a man in a same-sex marriage or an MtF transgendered person. Because if we let the lab do it for her, then we'd have to let same-sex couples do it, and let trans people do it, and then we'd have to let people do it for genetic enhancement and amusement, and all of those things mean the loss of individual conception rights to use our unmodified gametes, and an expensive and intrusive government regulated entitlement program that is obviously not a good idea.
So, let's hope this woman is able to be fertile as female, and support efforts to preserve and protect her fertility. If a lab does determine that her fertility is more likely as a man, she should have to change her legal sex before a lab should be allowed to help her impregnate a woman, and if they somehow are able to produce viable sperm from her unmodified genes, the he should be allowed to use them as a man to impregnate his wife. Of course, that's a pretty unethical and useless thing to spend medical resources on too, and hopefully she won't feel a great loss at not being able to do that and we won't feel a great need to make her try that.