Sam More <[log in to unmask]> asks,
The above hypothesis would demand a positive correlation
between tolerant societies where the rights of trans
people - also prior transition are respected - and a
larger number of "third gender - identified" persons
within the transgendered spectrum of the population. Are
there any studies which support that?
Is there perhaps also a wider context of pathologized and
marginalized persons rejecting classification as defective or
broken or worn out? The argument from biological determinism
that there is a very narrow definition of "normal human" to
which conformity must be medically forced affects a large
number of people in addition to those diagnosed as transsexual.
-- Lisa
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Lisa Lees [log in to unmask] www.lisalees.com
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