The definition of who we are.

Subject: The definition of who we are.

Once more the "minorities" win out. Girl-guides will be forced to accept transgender kids as girls irrespective of their physical appearance. 

How confused we become as we discover the complexities of the physical world and instigate rules that everything is normal given the broad brush approach to 'normal'.

If normal has lost its meaning and the double headed newt has, amongst the hierarchy of newts gained equivalence then there is no end to this story. A case can be made and the outcome assured since to oppose the case is deemed unethical. Nature in all its glory is but a genetic sequence and it's this sequence which is deemed the source of normality not the abnormalities it throws up in its sequencing. 

There are many instances of shall we call it inappropriate genetic sequencing and medicine is continually fighting the case where a chromosome is misplaced or missing altogether and the outcome disastrous for the host. The unfortunate abnormalities are the price we pay for the complexity of life and if the changes can be accommodated by firstly acknowledging their existence, society has the gift to be accommodating.

This act of accommodating has its detractors in the sense that they say the norm has been displaced and that the consequences have implications and it's this denial of any consequential effect which troubles many people.

Society has many norms and these norms change over time. Many norms can be traced to social pressures which determined a perceived threat to sections of the society and one of the strongest has been the segregation of the sexes. The primeval urges which  arise in the male or the female are the building blocks for our continuance as a species. Procreation is built on the system of physical attraction working and unlike the animal kingdom we homo-sapiens have developed a game of charades where the inherent urge is displaced by social rules which contrive to disguise or in effect amplify the difference between male and female. The whole edifice is built on the recognition of who is what, who is the male and who is the female. If this division is made opaque then the eventual consequences of the abandonment of what we used to define as "the norm" will have far reaching consequences. 

In our obsession to be inclusive we will lose the definition of who we are.