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If there is a man, or a woman, who feels they are the opposite what they were born, why should society and doctors put them through so many tests? It should be their right to change their gender, it should not be up to doctors and psychotherapists.

They're the sort of scores that drive high-school history teachers to drink. When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America's official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn't name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn't correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights.

Sex reassignment surgery is for both transsexuals and transgender people who want to change their sex by the means of a surgical procedure. A lot of steps need to be taken before such a procedure is done. Everything from psychological testing to hormone therapy is required. Most patients are happy with their surgery but admit that it does not help them function better psychologically.

This site offers information on how they have created a system that helps people diagnose their genes, however the gene patents are in the way of allowing this system to help people.

This article speaks about a project that was brought forth by a student. In this project students were free to pick and organize their own classrooms. There were no quizzes, no grades, and no tests.

More than 90 percent of the care that Planned Parenthood provides is preventive. Every year the organization provides 830,000 breast exams, nearly 1 million cervical cancer screenings, 500,000 HIV tests and birth control to 2.5 million patients.

Once again, the Court includes the right of parents in the area of "child rearing and education" to be a liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, requiring an application of the "compelling interest test."