(Reaction to a Yahoo news article)

ok... here I go....

The article is just beyond infuriating.

First off, they're completely discounting the "nurture" aspect of things. Too... this:
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the UCLA discovery may also offer physicians an improved tool for gender assignment of babies born with ambiguous genitalia.
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makes me feel like blowing up shopping malls. What the fuck?!?!?!?!?! WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL IT NECESSARY TO ASSIGN ANYTHING TO OTHER PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?!

...and this:
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"If physicians could predict the gender of newborns with ambiguous genitalia at birth, we would make less mistakes in gender assignment,"
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YOU CANNOT PREDICT GENDER!!!!!! Even if you can predict parts, you can't tell whether or not your child will want to wear pink or blue! Not all boys like blue! Not all girls like dresses! That doesn't make them any less boys or girls!

WHEN are people going to finally realize that sex, gender, and sexuality are THREE SEPARATE THINGS?!?!

...we won't even go into the fact that human beings are NOT mice.


ugh.

Sometimes I forget just how idiotic people who call themselves scientists can be.