Get Over It!

By JillPage Sat, Nov 27 2010 Patent Pending

http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/patentpending/archive/2010/11/27/get-over-it.aspx

I made a comment to an earlier post about the science of transitioning, in response to a particularly stupid comment by a reader. To digress for a moment, I am still having a hard time figuring out why our detractors criticize the Male-to-female transitioner, but don't dare say a negative word about the Female -to-male transitioner. Smacks of hypocrisy to me.

Anyhow, I wanted to expand on the comment I made. I think the people who are opposed to ->-bleeped-<- and transsexualism, ie. the fundamentalists and transphobes, need to get one thing straight: Science can and does and will continue to change the physical gender/sex of people. One might ask, "What about the genes?" My reply: You have no idea how they may have been modified while in the womb. You have no idea how the brain has been rewired. Any number of things a mother ingested may have been to blame. Or something in the environment. Or myriad other things. But one thing is for certain: the child is not to blame.The person who grows up to become a transsexual is not to blame.

Ahh...I don't like this article, because to me it's just another attempt to define gender by a biological condition rather than an identity.  I don't think one needs certain hormones to be female/male/other any more than one needs certain chromosomes or genitals.  I'm a boy right now with E in my body, and taking T wouldn't make me more or less of a boy.  It would just make me look more masculine, which is not what gender is about.