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ck4829

(35,077 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:03 AM Mar 2020

How does stopping a woman with no X chromosome from getting married fight COVID?

Yet unlike the other projects, Samaritan’s Purse (Operated by Islamophobic, Trump boosting evangelical leader, and anti-Obama conspiracy theorist Franklin Graham) has asked all volunteers working at the field hospital — including health workers — to pledge to 11 declarations, Gothamist reports, including one that defines marriage as “exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/31/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-GHI62Q5WLNCXRJ7FQMN5NTPAFE

What do they have against women without a second X chromosome?
What do they have against men with an extra Y chromosome?
What do they have against women with three X chromosomes?

People with missing or extra sex-determining chromosomes live normal lives and are part of the American fabric and can raise families, and, in some cases, without the need for assisted reproductive technology. A lot of people may have missing or extra sex-determining chromosomes and do not even know it.

So what's Frankie boy got against them?

Huh?

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How does stopping a woman with no X chromosome from getting married fight COVID? (Original Post) ck4829 Mar 2020 OP

Cuz, Bible ProfessorGAC Mar 2020 #1

Everyone has an X chromosome muriel_volestrangler Mar 2020 #2

It's a thing ck4829 Mar 2020 #3

Yes, that would have been better muriel_volestrangler Mar 2020 #4

its all about making money. medical care is just the hook to get the cash coming nt msongs Mar 2020 #5

ProfessorGAC

(65,057 posts)

1. Cuz, Bible

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:04 AM

Mar 2020

Or something like that!

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)

2. Everyone has an X chromosome

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:06 AM

Mar 2020

An embryo without one would undoubtedly fail to develop. Maybe you mean "with a Y chromosome".

ck4829

(35,077 posts)

3. It's a thing

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:07 AM

Mar 2020

I'm invoking poetic license to be dramatic and to not discount the fact that there are women without 2 X chromosomes.

Should I have said "missing an X chromosome" over and over again, that can make it sound like they are lacking an "essential quality" in my book, like they are "lesser". Which is not true.

I refuse to do that.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)

4. Yes, that would have been better

Reply to ck4829 (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:45 AM

Mar 2020

I don't think a post that actually does count chromosomes in various sentences gains by having an incorrect title, and then calling it 'poetic license'. If you're worried about truth, then talking about people with no X chromosome should worry you. You could say "with one X chromosome".

msongs

(67,409 posts)

5. its all about making money. medical care is just the hook to get the cash coming nt

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 03:26 PM

Mar 2020

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