LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Nonsense about sex

The news that there is a request before the Commissioners to restrict the choices of informed parents to expose their child to a man who dresses in women’s clothes while reading a story concerns me. The move especially concerns me because it is based on ignorance about the varieties of human sexual expression. I’m old enough to remember a couple of occasions when women came home from the hospital without their baby and the parents were slow to announce whether the child was a boy or a girl. What was happening was that surgeons were tidying up the child so that it fit more clearly in either the male or the female category. Sometimes they picked the “right” category to adjust toward and sometimes the child grew up uncomfortable with the choice. The idea that there are two clearly differentiated sexes is nonsense. The county needs to avoid getting sucked into political posturing – for all our sakes.

Leslie Nieves