Language matters
I am trying to comprehend why many in the male to female gender variant community continue to employ the term crossdresser when female to male persons who do the same thing are not so labeled. If women aren't "crossdressing" when they wear traditionally male clothing, why is a male bodied person doing so when wearing a skirt? I tend to personally see this term as slightly anachronistic and dismissive rather than helpful since there are a series of societal connotations surrounding it which aren't generally positive or helpful. If we are going to move towards a deeper level of understanding and tolerance of all types of behaviour (no matter the percentage of the population which engages in it), we need to update the lexicon as we have done in many other areas of social science. Hence if we are going to less stigmatize a behaviour which has always existed and which occurs with much more frequency than transsexualism, a name change might be in order. Perhaps as a startin
One caveat about this video: we dont know everything about the human brain, not by a long shot. However it never made sense to me that there were perfectly male and female brains because the field evidence tells us otherwise. There is a plethera of examples of people who break with expectation here and their behavior may be a combination of nature and nurture.
ReplyDeleteIf things were in truth monolithic we wouldn't be seeing the variances that we do observe which we now identify as the gender spectrum.
The research made thus far likely only touches on the tip of an iceberg.