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Lsuboymatt
Her is one thing:
It says man and a woman not man and man or woman and woman but MAN AND WOmAN to be together!
Hermaphrodites.
The correct medical term is "intersexed".
And I agree - the idea that marriage should be composed of one male person and one female person completely ignores everyone who does not fall neatly into one of those categories, including intersexed people and in some cases, transgendered people. I've heard of cases in certain states were not allowed to get married to someone of the opposite gender, because the judge ruled that although they'd had gender reassignment and had their legal gender changed, they could not change their DNA and thus would not be recognized as their new legal gender for the purpose of marriage. This is really screwed up, because the vast majority of people have
never had their karyotype checked, and thus do not know if their DNA is XX or XY. And while you might assume that all female-appearing babies are XX and all male-appearing ones are XY, this isn't true - about 1 in 20,000 male-assigned babies has something other than XY (and they usually don't find this out until they get married and have trouble conceiving.) There are women with androgen insensitivity who appear completely female at birth and as adults, and they too usually don't find out that they have XY chromasomes and internally male reproductive organs until they repeatedly fail to conceive. In both cases, these XY women are still women, and the XX men are still men. What this tells me is that gender is not determined by your DNA, but by how you identify yourself.