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Title: Cures
Post by: Butterfly on May 27, 2010, 05:14:20 PM
Post by: Butterfly on May 27, 2010, 05:14:20 PM
Cures
By Dyssonance
27 May, 2010
http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=1807 (http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=1807)
What I am interested in, however, is how we think of ourselves. I've "attacked" the ideas of "passing" and of "disclosure" and now I'm going to tackle one that a lot of people won't like and I don't really give a ->-bleeped-<- about that either, but it could be interesting to see them step around this one.
Curing Transsexualism.
What do you "cure"?
A cure is a "fix". You fix broken things. You cure something that is wrong. Unless it's the skin of a dead animal.
If one follows a biological model of transsexuals as being people who are "born that way" — someone who is inherently transsexual — then by saying that one cures a transsexual you are saying that something is wrong with them.
And, to be perfectly frank, that line of reasoning bothers me.
By Dyssonance
27 May, 2010
http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=1807 (http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=1807)
What I am interested in, however, is how we think of ourselves. I've "attacked" the ideas of "passing" and of "disclosure" and now I'm going to tackle one that a lot of people won't like and I don't really give a ->-bleeped-<- about that either, but it could be interesting to see them step around this one.
Curing Transsexualism.
What do you "cure"?
A cure is a "fix". You fix broken things. You cure something that is wrong. Unless it's the skin of a dead animal.
If one follows a biological model of transsexuals as being people who are "born that way" — someone who is inherently transsexual — then by saying that one cures a transsexual you are saying that something is wrong with them.
And, to be perfectly frank, that line of reasoning bothers me.