In other, unrelated news, I saw this last night. A short writeup about the campaign to get the APA to remove being transgendered from the list of mental disorders.
The second story it links to, in the Atlantic, is rather long, and convoluted. But it's interesting to me to read, and think about. It supports the point in the first entry, about transgenderism, and perhaps transvestitism, as being akin to gender attraction: a sliding scale, something that is not so simple as ones and zeros, not so much a matter of you are or aren't but more a matter of how much, and how to deal with it.
Of course, the situation outlined in the story makes that last part more of a question- but it's a good question. It's one that moves past the matter of gender identity being separate from the physical, and focuses more on a question of finding the right answer when you have few clues and potentially large consequences.
I think that's a promising start. It means at least some people will be honestly looking for answers.
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on 2009-05-21 02:01 pm (UTC)The second story it links to, in the Atlantic, is rather long, and convoluted. But it's interesting to me to read, and think about. It supports the point in the first entry, about transgenderism, and perhaps transvestitism, as being akin to gender attraction: a sliding scale, something that is not so simple as ones and zeros, not so much a matter of you are or aren't but more a matter of how much, and how to deal with it.
Of course, the situation outlined in the story makes that last part more of a question- but it's a good question. It's one that moves past the matter of gender identity being separate from the physical, and focuses more on a question of finding the right answer when you have few clues and potentially large consequences.
I think that's a promising start. It means at least some people will be honestly looking for answers.