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Trans sexualization; Trans medicalization

Started by Shana A, May 11, 2012, 10:04:31 AM

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May 11, 2012, 10:04:31 AM
Trans sexualization; Trans medicalization
Posted by LGBT Weekly Latest Issue, Trans Progressive Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Commentary: Trans Progressive
by Autumn Sandeen

http://lgbtweekly.com/2012/05/10/trans-sexualization-trans-medicalization/

Famed transsexual, Christine Jorgensen embraced the term transgender in an attempt to distance herself from the sexualization of her life. From Oct. 16, 1979 issue of the Winnipeg Free Press' article Christine Recalls Life As Boy From The Bronx:

"If you understand trans-genders," she says, (the word she prefers to transsexuals), "then you understand that gender doesn't have to do with bed partners, it has to do with identity."

December 18, 1985, she went further by telling the Regina Leader Post:

"I am a transgender because gender refers to who you are as a human."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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