Switzerland Rejects Gender Ideology in New Ruling
The government of Switzerland rejected attempts to impose a third-gender option or no-gender option for official records last week, distinguishing itself from other European nations that have already adopted the politics of gender identity.
The Swiss Federal Council responded to two proposals from the nation’s parliament saying “the binary gender model is still strongly anchored in Swiss society,” according to The Associated Press.
The Swiss Government said:
“The social preconditions for the introduction of a third gender or for a general waiver of the gender entry in the civil registry currently are not there.”
The council noted that adding additional gender options would necessitate “numerous” changes to the language of the Swiss Constitution as well as laws at the national and canton (state) levels.
In the nation’s civil registry, all people are listed as male or female with no exceptions.
According to Euronews, the political system in Switzerland is balanced across four major political parties from the far left to the nationalist right. Frequently, public referenda are held on major questions.
A Swiss government ethics commission found in a 2020 report that the time was not yet right for a change in the system. According to the Swiss Parliament, the process of revising the country’s Constitution is complex, a partial or complete revision of the Constitution needs to be approved by both a majority of the voters and also a majority of the nation’s 26 cantons.
This process can be initiated by either a People’s Initiative, a Constituent Assembly, or a Constitutional Convention.
Swiss lawmakers reportedly favored a third option for gender or for gender identity to be eliminated entirely according to Timcast.
Both Germany and Austria, Switzerland’s neighbors to the north and east respectively, have already had gender ideology imposed upon them through federal court rulings.
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Len Winokur
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The correct terminology is “sexual identity”.
“Gender” should be used only to refer to ‘masculine’/’feminine’/’neuter’ as used by linguists to distinguish ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ nouns e.g. the French ‘la porte’ (‘The door’; feminine noun).
For biological masculinity and femininity the correct wrod is ‘sex’. To use ‘gender’ in this contect smacks of prissiness.
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Howdy
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There is no such thing as “biological masculinity and femininity” since it precludes the existence of a ‘Feminine Man’.
‘Masculine or Feminine’ to the majority defines traits taken from common observations of what each apparently does, whether that be innate behaviour, an act to not appear out of place, or has been doggedly defined as to who should behave in such and such way, like, ‘Women do the caring, the housework, or Men are the authority figure, the ‘breadwinner’.
Masculine and Feminine is used in old Hebrew texts, yet it does not define the word simply, nor refer to male and female.
The description is Female or Male gender.
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Len Winokur
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You are correct in what you say about “Masculine” and “Feminine”, which function as adjectives and whose usage often carries connotations of expected ‘norms’ and stereotypes. But don’t confuse these adjectives with “male” and “female” sex which biologists use to refer respectively to those individuals which produce eggs (females) and those that produce sperm (males). For instance, some people may describe French men as being “effeminate”, but I doubt that any of those people who do would expect the French men they refer to as having anything other than male genitalia and an XY chromosomal constitution. The correct terms are the male and female sexes; sexual politics, and sexual identity.
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Howdy
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Masculine and Feminine describe a polarity, which is nothing to do with biology at all. It cannot be defined by science, nor chromosomes.
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K Kaiser
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To quote from the article: “Both Germany and Austria, Switzerland’s neighbors to the north and east respectively, have already had gender ideology imposed upon them through federal court rulings”
My view:
The Swiss system of governance is much more reliant on the views of the entire population – I’d like to call it “people-centric.” For example, important decisions usually involve plebiscites as part of the next election.
In contrast, many other governments, in Europe and elsewhere, are highly “government-centric,” where politicians and the bureaucrats decide “what the people want” – regardless whether the populace agrees or not.
Judging from history, the Swiss system is the better one.
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