People who cannot choose either “male” or “female” have such tenuous connections to reality that they should not be listened to on anything else.
Facebook Adds New Gender Option for Users: Fill in the Blank
"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Really? What if I fill in the blank with “none of your business”? I think that is a perfectly good answer to a great number of such questions…
What is your gender?
What is your race?
What is your mother’s favorite color?
What did you pack in your children’s lunch?
Do your parents own a gun?
Coke or Pepsi?
I once replied on a form for a job I had decided I did not want with an asterisk at the sex question and below. . .
*only with my wife, thank you.
(Yes, I know that’s not the reason they did it. It’s the way I would take advantage of it though.)
Still, folks who think (although that’s a dubious use of “think”) they are something other than male or female had better have the body parts and genetics to back up their claim or reveal themselves to be morons.