I’ve been thinking about the Christian right’s position that “marriage should be between one man and one woman”, and It got me thinking about another question. Where do religious people sit on the question of individuals who are neither a male nor female?
Social conservatives tend to be very against LGBT rights, especially trans rights. Now I can imagine the social conservative probably will not believe in the gender dysphoria associated with transsexuals and transgendered people, and because of this disbelief the conservative will have a gender essentialist position. This means the conservative will believe that the gender of the individual is the same as the sex the individual was born with.
Here is where my question comes in. Even if we completely ignore individuals who are of one sex, and have the gender of another, we still have individuals with a sex that is neither what would traditionally be called “male” or “female”. What I’m thinking of here, is individuals with extra or deficit X and Y chromosomes, and individuals born with vestigial sexual organs.
I’m going to completely disregard the conservatives misunderstanding of what makes an individual belong to a certain gender and assume for the sake of argument that ones sex organs define ones gender. I’d like to ask, if marriage should only be between a “man” and a “woman”, then should an individual who is neither a man nor a woman, or an individual who is both a man and a woman be able to get married? And if so, which gender should this person be able to marry? And why?
I would love to hear some conservative opinions about this.
I’m usually a big conservative basher, but I’m going to try a different approach. You convert more bees with honey :p
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