LGBT FYI
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.cspCandice 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.
