Not every child who is confused about their gender is Transsexual. But whether TS, Gay, or just "going through a phase", they have rights to Love and respect.
Quite simply the best movie on the subject I've ever seen. And while Gender is a bimodal distribution rather than a spectrum as such, the latter term is a pardonable simplification in this context.
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Thursday 18 January 2007
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Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
As Google does not reliably inform me that a comment has been posted, and I have no control over first publication, I assert that all comments are innocently disseminated under the NSW DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 32 and similar acts.
"...Gender is a bimodal distribution rather than a spectrum as such..."
ReplyDeleteHi Zoe - do you have a reference with more detail on this (this post helped, but more info would be great!)?
I've been working from the view that understanding a given individual in a holistic way requires recognizing "innate" gender (internal "wiring"), physical gender (appearance) and sexuality (preference), which actually comprise a (possibly trivariate?) multimodal distribution, where each of these three factors resides on its own "spectrum" (axis) and where the distribution on each may be bimodal.
FWIW, I'm becoming convinced that this complexity is one of the factors that stymies scientific research which might, ultimately, result in publications that would tend to normalize societal attitudes toward intersexed, transgendered and transsexual individuals.