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Pellucidation: Jesse Bering, Gay Male, Attempts to Erase Trans Folk

Started by Shana A, September 18, 2010, 08:36:49 AM

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Friday, September 17, 2010
Jesse Bering, Gay Male, Attempts to Erase Trans Folk

Posted by Corinna Cohn at 7:57 AM

http://pellucidation.blogspot.com/2010/09/jesse-bering-gay-male-attempts-to-erase.html

Erasure. It's more than a pop band from the 1990s. It also describes the act of denying or diminishing the identities of trans folk.

Erasure can be blatant, such as when the police or media refuse to acknowledge the gender identities of trans folk, or it can happen more subtly, such as when psychologists such as Jesse Bering force gender identity onto the sexual orientation scale.

In his Scientific American article, Bering asks, "Is your child a 'pre-homosexual?'" His article is predicated on observations that children who exhibit non gender conforming behavior are more likely to grow up to have homosexual orientation.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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