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Offline Chris_

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Sebelius’ Spokesman Says HHS Will Limit ‘Measurements of Gender’ in Federal Heal
« on: August 05, 2009, 08:05:12 AM »
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Sebelius’ Spokesman Says HHS Will Limit ‘Measurements of Gender’ in Federal Health Care Database to ‘Male’ and ‘Female’—LGBT Categories Will Not Be Included

CNSNews.com) - A spokesman for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com yesterday that a new federal database that will collect information on all beneficiaries of government-run or government-supported health-care programs will only use the categories “male” and “female”—not lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender--when making entries for a person’s gender.
 
The language in the Senate health care bill that directs the HHS secretary to create this database makes no mention of “male” or “female” but specifically mandates that she “develop standards for the measurement of gender.”

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CNSNews.com followed up, asking Pappas: “Just to be clear: You are saying that male and female are the only genders that will be distinguished?”

“Yes,” said Pappas.

The press office for the Senate Health committee did not respond to requests for an explanation of the meaning of the phrase “develop standards for the measurement of gender” or whether or not the committee intended to limit gender to male and female.

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How exactly is one born "transgendered"?  Aren't we all born with XY or XX chromosomes?

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Re: Sebelius’ Spokesman Says HHS Will Limit ‘Measurements of Gender’ in Federal Heal
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 08:23:41 AM »
The language in the Senate health care bill that directs the HHS secretary to create this database makes no mention of “male” or “female” but specifically mandates that she “develop standards for the measurement of gender.”

------Umm, I think God settled that question oh, around the time he made Adam and Eve???
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Re: Sebelius’ Spokesman Says HHS Will Limit ‘Measurements of Gender’ in Federal Heal
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2009, 01:05:19 AM »
What??? No block for trangender, transspecies.....uh.....UGP

What about a block for those of us not get-N-any?....or at least not enough.

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Re: Sebelius’ Spokesman Says HHS Will Limit ‘Measurements of Gender’ in Federal Heal
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2009, 06:07:48 AM »
We use a computerized system for health records here (electronic medical records, oh my!... funny, we still have hard copies too, sure saves money having to have computers AND paper records that take many man-hours to maintain  ::) ), and when we enter a new patient into the system, gender is a drop-down menu listing: Male, Female, Other, Unknown, Both.
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