Louis Epstein

As a lifelong Democrat I am disturbed that only Republicans are listed as sponsoring this bill. While I am adamantly "liberal" on such matters as abortion rights,capital punishment,gun control,creationism,and national health insurance and furiously opposed to the Republican regime in Washington attempting to dismantle our Constitution,we can not be blind to the simple fact of biological sex as a concrete reality of greater importance than any subjective self-identity...a child's best interests must never be construed as involving treatments that psychologically or physically impair natural development as a member of the child's genetically dictated sex. The cultural stereotypes associated with sex roles must never be treated as defining the person's options or determining their core identity...from an intellectually liberal viewpoint the ideology of gender identity must be viewed as innately retrograde and not endowed with any sort of legally enforced privilege.