Green isn't a color, it's half yellow and half blue. It's blueish-yellow, is...is what it is.

I guess I will write twice today, 'cause I am on a rant. I am now going to go off in a different tangent though: Gender Identity. I think it is odd that we think of the world as split up into male and female so rigidly that we are willing to base our laws on that belief. Here are some other categories that only have to do with gender identity, not sexual orientation.

"true hermaphrodite" - label used in medical literature for persons having a mixed gonadal structure, (ovo-testis, or sometimes one ovary and one testis).
"pseudo-hermaphrodite" - label used in medical literature for all other intersexuals.
"full-time transvestite" - a person who presents themselves as their non-birth gender in all aspects of their life
"part-time transvestite" - a person who presents themselves sometimes as their birth gender and sometimes as their non-birth gender
"male to female" (MTF, M2F) - describes sex to gender; an individual with a physically male body, who identifies mentally as female; it is considered rude to refer to a MTF as a man who wants to be a woman, because a MTF considers themselves a woman
"female to male" (FTM, F2M) - describes sex to gender; an individual with a physically female body, who identifies mentally as male; it is considered rude to refer to a FTM as a woman who wants to be a man, because a FTM considers themselves a man.
"post-operative" (post-op) - a transexual who has completed sex reassignment surgery (SRS)

If you toss in male and female that adds up to 9 legitimate and distinct gender categories (12 if you count part-time and full-time transvestites as well as post-operatives twice; once for each birth gender. 10 again if you decide not to separate part- and full-time, but at least 7). I know that it would be difficult for our culture to treat these categories as equal to the 'big two': male and female, but only because of tradition and relative numbers. It would be unjust to say that the fact that we can't cope easily with these people is their fault.

To say that only couples that include one man and one woman can get married, than you restrict 65 other two-person gender identity combinations from that same right. How can we tell a person that since they aren't a man OR a woman, they can't get married. We can force them into one of those catagories, but that has proven to be dangerous and painful for many. Forcing some children to choose genders has in some rare cases led to VERY surprise pregnancies. I guess what I am getting at is that we should be at a point in our societal growth where we can move on, and change how we view the world. Now if you toss in Sexual orientation, that just adds more ambiguity to our ideas of what gender means and how we fit into the scheme of things.