Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981 In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as well: Chiefliness and aristocracy are associated with active sexuality and…
While cross-cultural transgender roles such as the Berdache have encountered a resurgence of interest, little anthropological attention has been paid to Western gender variance or to the closely related subject of gender identity. – Abstracts of the annual…
Transsexuals utilize the concepts of their own culture to construct their own transgender experience. – In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rights of Passage, 1987, Page 100
But the sex change process is gradual, and Marcia stands to undergo a lengthy period of androgyny before she will fully pass in society as a woman. These are lonely and difficult days for Marcia. She is thinking…
This week, we take a look at Pastor Andres Savage who coerced an underage girl into sexually servicing him on the outskirts of Houston. But, before we do that, let’s look at the bad advice Pastor Andres Savage…
Transgenderism is a relatively new term in the field of sexology, one meant to describe a variance falling at some point between transvestism and transsexualism. – McCary’s Human Sexuality, 1982, Page 410
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERF) are planning a conference for June 8th and June 9th at the London Irish Center in London. Last year they planned on having this at Conway Hall but since they specifically excluded transgender…
If you’re a researcher or provide services to a target population, how do you work with identity vs reality vs definitions? How does your datasets deal with: White people who do not identify as white Non-transsexuals who identify…
The Spirit of the Earth, Jerome Perlinski 1st edition, 1981 Evolution of the Trans-Gender Process
*Disclaimer* This post is on a site exposing TERFs but we are not insinuating that Being Feminists are part of that group. UPDATE: LA has apologized for and removed the inflammatory post on Being Feminist’s Facebook page! Thank…