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Mom fired for nursing wins sex-bias suit

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Mom Fired for Nursing Wins Sex-Bias Suit

It is unconscionable that a working mother should be penalized for needing to feed her newborn baby. - Phyllis Cheng, director of the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which represented Chavez

(Newser Summary) – Firing an employee for breastfeeding during her break amounts to sex discrimination, California’s Fair Employment and Housing Commission ruled last week, awarding her $41,645 in damages, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Marina Chavez was fired from her job at a Los Angeles-area taqueria after breastfeeding her newborn on her lunch break. The taqueria’s owner argued that he fired her for cause and says he’ll appeal the ruling.

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Gender identification isn’t as simple as it seems

As the case of athlete Caster Semenva (the world-class runner from South Africa) demonstrates, making a final determination on gender is not always possible, even from chromosomes.  Think of the complexity this suggests about sexual preference, and the “not natural” argument some employ to insist homosexuality is something that should be “healed.”

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To be fair, the biology of sex is a lot more complicated than the average fan believes
If the person has XY chromosomes, you declare him a man. If XX, she’s a woman. Right?
Wrong. A little biology: On the Y chromosome, a gene called SRY usually makes a fetus grow as a male. It turns out, though, that SRY can show up on an X, turning an XX fetus essentially male. And if the SRY gene does not work on the Y, the fetus develops essentially female.
Even an XY fetus with a functioning SRY can essentially develop female
In the case of Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
the genitals and the rest of the external body look female-typical, except that these women lack body hair
Moreover, a person can look male-typical on the outside but be female-typical on the inside, or vice versa
Matthew, a 19-year-old who was born looking obviously male, was raised a boy, and had a girlfriend and a male-typical life. Then he found out
that he had ovaries and a uterus
he had XX chromosomes
his body developed
male-typicalRead more at www.nytimes.com