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Gender bending 101

Started by LostInTime, February 12, 2007, 07:15:44 AM

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February 12, 2007, 07:15:44 AM
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Gilbert is a husband, a father, a grandfather and a well-respected philosophy professor with more than 30 years of service at York. He's also a lifelong cross-dresser who for about a decade has come to campus at least once a semester en femme to teach the philosophy of gender and sexuality. But this is about much more than just a guy wearing a dress.

Sure, Gilbert wants to give his second- and fourth-year classes a real-life example of the theories they're studying. But it's also a way to break down barriers.

As a tenured professor, Gilbert has job protection to voice controversial opinions or beliefs. With that privilege, he says, comes a responsibility. Though Gilbert's wife knew and he told his four children in 1994, it wasn't until late 1996 that he showed up in class as a woman.

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