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Breaking through the gender illusion

Started by Shana A, March 05, 2011, 09:45:34 AM

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Shana A

March 05, 2011, 09:45:34 AM
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Rosemary Winters

Breaking through the gender illusion

Published on Mar 4, 2011 12:40PM

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogslgbt/51364522-61/gender-metzler-female-male.html.csp

Candice Metzler, a transgender social work student at the University of Utah, challenged students and faculty on Thursday to question the binary construct of gender: man or woman.

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"We have a society that for a long time has basically shamed people into being silent about this issue," Metzler said. "That's how we maintain this gender illusion, as I would call it."

Metzler sees gender as a spectrum. But because society generally defines gender in only two ways, people are forced to blend with one or the other, she said.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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