The socalled shift withhin the trans community towards recognition of
intermediate gender expression and non-op/incomplete op/nonhormone
(i.e. selective medical reasingment) are actually two different
theorectical or emotional approaches towards the same phenomena: first
an increased satisfaction with the own body and second a depathologisation
- also by parts of the medical community and the state - of the transsexual
or transgendered identity which allows the trans person to accept his or her
body.
Of course this is justified, after all the transsexual problem in its
essence is the lack of recognition in one's true gender by third parties,
genuie
intersex related medical problems nonwithstanding .
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?
Sam
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