(Rethinking) Gender

A growing number of Americans are taking their private struggles with their identities into the public realm. How those who believe they were born with the wrong bodies are forcing us to re-examine what it means to be male and female.

By Debra Rosenberg | NEWSWEEK

From the magazine issue dated May 21, 2007

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Posted By: Libricrat @ 11/18/2008 5:44:13 PM

Comment: Who cares what people are? We're all people. As long as individuals are true to themselves and find their own happiness then, who cares. It's no one elses business anyway.
Posted By: Insects_Cry @ 09/21/2008 5:42:24 PM

Comment: I agree with CAstrawberrygirl for the most part but as a part of said academic world I would have to add its less about accepting your gender and more about not feeling the need to conform to gender roles. For the most part i think if gender roles weren't often so narrowly defined one would feel comfortable expressing themself regardless of gender. That said, however; if a person feels the need to get a sex change operation to be happy who am i to stop them. In short i agree but for slightly different reasons, perhaps there needs to be more of a separation between Identity "who they are" and gender roles "who they they think they are". Just my two cents
Posted By: CAstrawberrygirl @ 09/21/2008 12:12:38 AM

Comment: Very sad that a few ideas from the academic world are causing parents and doctors to step aside from leading their children to accept their God-given gender. Parents need to take a stand and help their children find love and acceptance in who they are. Not who they "think" they are.
- Posted By: ghostmasseur @ 10/20/2008 5:53:17 PM
  
  Comment: Maybe because it is not "god-given" but nature-given, with an ocassional slip-up.
  
  There is nothing wrong with figuring out what gender one really is versus externalities.
Posted By: Label-Less @ 08/05/2008 12:37:08 PM

Comment: Slight discrepancy with the terminology: In general in the GLBT community, transgendered describes someone who has not yet had sex reassignment surgery (regardless of their future plans to do so or not to do so), transsexual describes someone who is post-op, and transvestite describes someone who does not feel that they were born in the same body but wears opposite sex clothing for sexual gratification.
- Posted By: Grayce @ 10/24/2008 12:36:59 PM
  
  Comment: Almost right... however Transgendered does include Transsexuals... it is an umbrella term. Your further definitions of TV is correct... based on my readings and experiences.