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Transgender People
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Men
and
Women
(ts)
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Overview
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- have a core sense of gender, which
crosses the known sex binary
(male/female) or is outside it
completely, hence the term
trans-gender
- recognise a multiplicity of genders
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- have a core sense of gender which fits with
the known sex
binary (male/female)
- have an innate sex which is 100% the
opposite to their body's phenotype
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The gender
binary
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- cannot situate themselves completely within
either the male category nor the female
category
- describe themselves on a gender continuum
with 'degrees of difference'
- situate themselves within a continuum of
many genders
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- situate themselves within the known sex
binary (male/female) - female or male
- describe themselves to be a man or a woman
within their own cultural standards
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Transgender
People
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Men and
Women
(ts)
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Pronouns
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- pronouns: zie, hys, zir, zhe, sir, he, hym,
as well as the usual, she, he, him, his
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- for men: he, his, him
- for women: she, her
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Transition and
Treatment
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- make use of a range of social, hormonal and
surgical options to express their gender and
relieve their physical discomfort
- decisions depend on the individual's
personal sense of self, bodily comfort and
self-identity
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- desire conclusive medical treatment
as best as can be achieved for them
(financially, medically, etc)
- seek the remedy of rehabilitative
sex affirmation treatment (being those
hormonal and surgical procedures sometimes
described as sex reassignment) to bring their
physical body into harmony with their innate
(core) brain-sex to achieve a sense of personal
unity and peace
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Transgender
People
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Men and
Women
(ts)
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Visibility
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- often feel the 'invisibility' of their
selves is problematic
- often prefer to be visibly transgender
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- view their 'invisibility' in a positive
light
- feel a sense of relief when they are finally
visible as the sex to which they belong
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Role of medical
intervention
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- are often uncomfortable (or even resent)
being pathologised or medicalised to get medical
assistance
- often consider the clinical aspects of the
transition process is problematic
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- welcome the role of the health care provider
to help correct their physical appearance
- strongly desire rehabilitative sex
affirmation treatment (hormonal and surgical
procedures) to resolve their situation
- consider the clinical aspects of the process
will confirm what they have always experienced
to be true and are relieved there are medical
solutions to their discomfort
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place of
identity
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- value the idea of being 'transgender' as an
identity in itself
- transgender identity is akin to that of
other minority groups or communities of
difference in society
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- seeks the 'identity' of the sex to which
they rightly belong (man/woman,
male/female)
- 100% of this group desires legal correction
of their innate (core) sex
- transsexualism is not an identity it is a
medical condition
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