Colorblindness and Gender Identity: Some Random Thoughts
- samuelyan8888
- Sep 6
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 16
I was born with serious colorblindness called deuteranopia. Among many inconveniences, I see green traffic lights as bright white and often have a hard time spotting my sons during sport games, with his team and the opponents wearing red and green jerseys. Recent advancements for helping colorblind people haven’t helped me at all.
About 8% of the male population have this deficiency—that’s around 12 million American men, according to 2023 statistics. Sometimes I joke with my wife: why don’t they use blue traffic lights instead of red ones, so colorblind people can see them from a distance? Wouldn’t insisting on red be a kind of discrimination against the colorblind people? Of course, that will never happen—it’s just my joke.
Nowadays, the Democratic Party’s Progressive Wing has been pushing gender identity to the extreme. Like colorblindness, the issue of gender identity isn’t new. What’s new is how far things have been pushed. I was asked by a parent yesterday how I would deal with this issue if LCPS Policy 8040 is dropped. Well, there is no perfect solution to make everyone happy.
On one hand, as a special group of people who identify with a different gender from birth, they shouldn't be discriminated against and ARE protected under LCPS Policy 1040 and under federal laws. On the other hand, the absolute majority of people—97–99% of the American male population—are not transgender. What should we do? I think President Kennedy has provided a solution, and I would like to rephrase his words here: “Ask not what people can do for you, but what you can do for others.”
If colorblind people don’t ask for a blue traffic light instead of a red one, then why should you be allowed to enter the bathroom of the opposite sex instead of your biological sex, or play sports designated for the opposite sex?
Note: I use male only statistics because one in 12 men and one in 200 women are colorblind
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