gender as personal choice......

ok, so this article popped on the nytimes this evening....and i found it heartwarming......the notion that gender should be a legally binding personal choice..........this is an issue that has been on my mind ever since my mother admitted to me that friends of theirs (i must include my dad in theirs)......had a baby who had both sets of genitals....and they had to decide which to keep and which to discard.....and this knowledge...long before i quite understood about gender confusion.......troubled me......how could they decide when the baby was.....a baby?........why could not this wait until the baby had some sense of boy or girl.......gosh darn it would be a bitch to find out that you were born with both sets, and your mom and pop wanted a girl so they had the boy parts removed....only for you to want them back so very badly 5 or 10 or 15 years later......but new york is taking all this and more into consideration with this proposed legislation......doesn't affect me in the least...but it might just mean everything to people i love, or have yet to meet.........