In a comment Joanne writes:
I believe in substantive evidence and forensics. Thats why I believe this:
http://joanneproctor-hbs.blogspot.com/2009/08/organization-activation-brain-biology.html
Now, instead of using a classical transsexed / intersexed yardstick to understand your own issues, why don’t you give some consideration to the way science and biology works?
At least we have a common base of empirical evidence to cite. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Gender, Fashion and Society Essays’
September 2, 2009
Transsexed, Transgendered and Crossdresser Brains are the Same
August 31, 2009
Transgender and Born in the “Right” Body
Reading Sandy Stone
I have been reading Sandy Stone’s The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto. This manifesto launched the transgender politics of the nineties by breaking with the Classical Transsexual worldview. When it was published in 1991 it signaled an era of fresh thinking about transgender. Remember that Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble was also published [...]
August 29, 2009
The Transgender Coalition is Dead
Aria, Joanne and others, some of whom call themselves Classical Transsexuals, resent the LGBT identity politics which claims to speak for all Transsexuals under the umbrella term Transgender. They strongly believe in the categories Male and Female, and many resent being included in a category with transvestites and crossdressers.
They claim to represent a silent majority [...]
August 20, 2009
four biological sexes
I make a proposal for thinking of gender in a quadrant of four sexes instead of a binary of two sexes.
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August 13, 2009
This is what male femininity looks like
I have written at length about how male-bodied femininity is banished from visibility in my society. But whether you believe that femininity is cultural or biological, male femininity is a natural phenomenon.