DYSSONANCE: SEX & GENDER & TRANSNESS, OH MY!
November 29, 2012
by Toni D'orsayhttp://www.dyssonance.com/sex-gender-transness-oh-my/Sometimes you gotta repeat something five different ways for people to get it.
Other times you have to take something apart all the way down for it to sink in.
Sex, Gender, Gender Identity, Sex Identity, Transness Trans, Transsexual, Transgender, etc etc etc ad infinitum.
We know the terms. Do we know what they mean? Do we understand them at a deep and practical level?
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So gender is Social Sex — it is the male in the social scene, the female in the world of people. Toss us on an island by ourselves, and these things become ultimately unimportant, but bring others into it, and once more they rise to the fore.
Social sex elements are also what undermine the "traditions" that so many in our culture like to uphold.
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The way that people change in their reactions and thoughts of you when they find out you are trans is the key to all of this.
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There is no way to excerpt this amazing 9600 word article in 200 words, but in my opinion it is worth reading and contemplating. A very interesting exploration of six interrelated aspects of sex and gender and society. -MadelineB
