>
>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
Indeed, it is larger. For example, who is the arbiter of a person having an
intersexed body: doctors, the medical community or the individual? And if
the individual rejects participating with the medical establishment, is not
in any personal medical danger, and is freely accepted by other intersexed
people as intersexed, what is the purpose of diagnosis, other than for
veracity's sake?
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