Rethinking Gender: What Makes Us Male or Female?

[Jillieann Rose]

Newsweek HealthBy Debra Rosenberg
A growing number of Americans are taking their private struggles with their identities into the public realm. How those who believe they were born with the wrong bodies are forcing us to re-examine what it means to be male and female.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18618970/site/newsweek/

[LostInTime]

Newsweek

Growing up in Corinth, Miss., J. T. Hayes had A legacy to attend to. His dad was a well-known race-car driver and Hayes spent much of his childhood tinkering in the family's greasy garage, learning how to design and build cars. By the age of 10, he had started racing in his own right. Eventually Hayes won more than 500 regional and national championships in go-kart, midget and sprint racing, even making it to the NASCAR Winston Cup in the early '90s. But behind the trophies and the swagger of the racing circuit, Hayes was harboring a painful secret: he had always believed he was a woman. He had feminine features and a slight frame—at 5 feet 6 and 118 pounds he was downright dainty—and had always felt, psychologically, like a girl. Only his anatomy got in the way.



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[Attis]

Sooner or later the biologists, who have over the last few decades discovered at least six sexes within our species, will have to speak out against the traditionally held assumptions of what sex is, why we have it, and why our legal statuses should not be predicated upon it. Moreover, it really jilts me as to why people who are anti-TG don't accept this, more than anything else, only because the science is pretty much in on this issue, the only portions which are not complete (theory of TS and what not) are what's left. The general form of what biology understands to be sex (as opposed to gender) is now fairly well understood, it's time the collective we call society swallow the jagged little pill called truth and move on. :-P~

-- brede