Sam Dylan More <[log in to unmask]>
>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.
You've been re-reading 'Transsexual Empire', right?
>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 .
Uhoh, I feel I'm getting redefined again. So physical dysphoria isn't of
the essence in transsexuality? Not in any of the transsexual people I've
ever met, or me. Think again please before you try such a blatent
co-option of the term transsexual, please.
Anna
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