T&T: Sex and gender

SEX and gender are not the same and should not be treated as such, according to MP for Pointe-a-Pierre , Gillian Lucky.

Using a court ruling to prove her point, Lucky said the two words were not synonymous. "Sex is determined at the time of birth and, for the purposes of the law, it can never be changed," she said.

She said a case dealing with human rights at the highest level was that "gender is distinct to sex because gender is something that can be changed".

Lucky noted that some people, via operations, "may choose to change for the purposes of their gender what they would have been born as. Sex means male or female; gender deals with persons who may be transsexuals and, for the purposes of the law, may either be male or female but have chosen to change their gender. That is why it is important to make the distinction."

Well, sex is biological, and gender is a grammatical construct. Anybody can change gender just by changing the pronoun or noun used to reference himself. However, having an addadictomy or an addacatomy doesn't change biology and chemistry, no matter how much hormone therapy one takes. Stop taking the hormones and see what happens.

Life is sweet, though.