tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8193897285881648383.post4435966041910237400..comments2023-10-12T09:26:40.610-06:00Comments on thinking difference: Being man/ being womanthinkingdifferencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04793349270097291638noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8193897285881648383.post-12696837494470307832008-01-15T22:41:00.000-07:002008-01-15T22:41:00.000-07:00You say "the LGBT community has long challenged ou...You say "the LGBT community has long challenged our ideas of male/female essences". In a sense, the fact that there are people who are lesbians, gay, bisexual or transsexual confirms the binary character of sexual identification. Take, for example, the case of male-to-female transsexuals. Many of them confess about themselves that in the childhood they used to play with dolls, not with firetrucks; that inside they feel feminine; that the masculine physical body is "a mistake" etc. When they grow up they identify with the female body and adopt all its defining idiosyncrasies (purse and lipstick, high heels, etc). Their appearance and behaviour is often exaggeratedly feminine. They deny their male identity up to the point of feminizing their names by ending them with a previously inexistent "a". They want to be <I>female</I>, acknowledging thereby the reality of the female/male dichotomy. <BR/><BR/>So contrary to what you claim, I think that the TLBG people validate the dichotomy in question (even if this dichotomy may/may not be socially constructed). What transsexuals challenge, in my opinion, is the immutability of sexual identity, not its discreteness.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08540257423252742405noreply@blogger.com