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GOP lawmaker revives bid to overturn same-sex marriage
Written by Amelia Hansford-
GOP lawmakers have called for the US Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v Hodges. (Getty)
North Idaho GOP legislator Tony Wisniewski introduce a joint memorandum on Monday (23 February) that would call on the US Supreme Court to reverse its landmark decision on Obergefell v Hodges.
The 2015 ruling held that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage, overruling any .....
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hi there. My name is Dakota Christine, and I am one of the many that received the letter following SB 244.
I am intersex; I was born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, and have always… always… been a girl.
I was forced by the State of Kansas to hand in my drivers license, as if I was a criminal.
My drivers license was invalidated and void overnight, without warning, and it was a crime for me to drive to the DMV, to get my new license.
I do not feel equally protected, and it saddens me the lack of empathy within our Kansas State Legislature.
I am one of many that just want to exist. Live in peace, be free.
0.43% of the Kansas population is Transgender.
Percentage of Intersex people in Kansas? 0.018%
I am one of the many affected by this horrendous bill. I sobbed the entirety of yesterday, and I am so ashamed of the state that I grew up in.
I tried so hard to smile for my ‘new’ license picture, but how could I, when the state I live in, targets such a small minority.
Please vote. Please protest. This affects me, your neighbor. Your friend. Someone you actually know.
The power is and has always been with the people
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I had to look it up since I am not well informed on the subject.
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The different types of AIS are:
- Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS): Your body doesn’t respond to androgens at all. Your external genitals appear female, but you don’t have female sex organs (no ovaries, fallopian tubes or uterus). People with CAIS are often raised as girls with a female gender identity. Approximately 1 in 20,000 genetically male infants are born with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome.
So it seems to me that regardless of being XY instead of XX, the person essentially is still female.
How they develop, feel, and appear will be female.
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Interesting point about the difference between sex and love.
For me, what starts an attraction is about sex, but what lasts is about love.
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I agree with the second part but the first isn't always the case. I'm sure we all know someone whose significant other is ugly as sin. And they ended up talking etc because they had some mutual interest or worked together on a committee, or whatever. And somewhere along the line they suddenly realized that their partner was gorgeous on the inside where it counts.
On that topic, when I was in university campus security had a book that contained the official photos of every student on campus (basically just the photos found on our student cards). In any case, it was tradition that all the freshman students in residence had to attend a mixer (typically sometime in October) and your partner for the evening was simply assigned randomly. Didn't matter if someone already had a boyfriend/girlfriend - the assigned date was yours for that evening. Whether you ever saw them again was totally up to you. And the guys managed to get access to a copy of the book of pictures.
Then came the judging - it was called the "ghoul pool" and the guy who ended up with the ugliest date of all wouldn't hear the end of it for weeks afterwards. But one year we never told the winner that he had won cause he married her.
Reminds me a little of "Pig Night".
Each dude brings the least attractive female he can find / invite.
The worst one wins?
Sea turtles don't suckle.
Mom drops them into a hole in the sand, & then goes for a long swim.
Humans need over a decade to prepare offspring to live independently, & reproduce.
"Love" seems to be the remedy for that problem. Kind of fluky though.
The biology has not caught up to the sociology.
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Exactly the same except in the case of the "ghoul pool" the guys didn't make the choice - someone just arbitrarily assigned freshman students to each other. If you think about it, it actually makes sense - many (most?) first year students coming into residence don't know anyone at all - it's their first time away from home and they're living with hundreds of people in the same boat. This forces even the shyest students to meet other people.