At least 1 in 2000 human births result in people who are neither male nor female, in the traditional sense.
Not all are surgically assigned a gender at birth. Some conditions cause gender
to shift during a person’s lifetime. Some people who are born with a specific
gender don’t feel comfortable in their bodies and with the help of hormones and
sometimes surgery, shift into a different sex body. For these reasons and more,
a fair number of people are unable to choose “male” or “female” on a form
without lying about who they are.
If marriage is between a man and a woman, what happens to
those who are neither male nor female? Like homosexuals and lesbians, intersex people
would be denied the right to marry those they love. However, if we can
understand marriage as a pact between two people,
people can love and marry whomever they feel most drawn to.
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