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Title: Breaking through the gender illusion
Post by: Shana A on March 05, 2011, 09:45:34 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 05, 2011, 09:45:34 AM
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.csp (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.
[...]
"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.
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 (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.
[...]
"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.