Real Girls, Part Two: Theory and Reality
Posted October 28, 2008
http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/real-girls-part-two-can-anyone-define-that-meme/No one enjoys having her life reduced to whether or not scientific proof can be found that basically makes her a part of the human genome rather than an object of psychological exploration by the likes of the CAMH/Northwestern sexological axis. Much better regarded is the research emanating from Melbourne and UCLA.
Taken together with studies performed over the past ten years by researchers (biological/medical ones, not the psychological gim-crackery of the CAMH/Northwestern groups who mainly do "thought-experiments") at The Free University of Amsterdam and at Goettingen University on the BSTc and the proof for brain-sex, there's growing and compelling evidence that transsexuals, and possibly other gender-divergent people are exactly who we have always said we were.
The latest release of research from The Prince Henry's Institute in Melbourne adds, as Zoe Brain says, another piece, a small one, but an important one, in the puzzle of transsexuality/->-bleeped-<-. There's a the fashion in which sex is absolutely not the well-defined and currently accepted binary with no exceptions that we have lived with for millenia. As one finds and places those puzzle pieces into the frame one sees, without doubt anymore, that to be "male" is not always a matter of having "male-genitalia" and even "male chromosomes." Nor is being female relegated a priori to women born with 46xx chromosomes and a vagina and ovaries. Brain-sex, much maligned in some areas around Chicago, Illinois, USA and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has become over the past few years a fact that now requires proof that it isn't true, rather than simply a pronunciamento by psychologists and psychiatrists that trans-folk have mental disorders.
