It appears to me that practically all discussion of this assumes that there is such a thing as inherent gender and that it can differ from that suggested by the arrangement of your genitals at birth.
Is it not a common right-wing point of view that transsexuality is a sexual fetish, and that the dichotomy between sex (biological) and gender (social) is a left-wing fiction? This is frequently part of a package of views that is more focused on criticism of homosexuality and feminism, but I remember encountering critics of transsexuality that were gay or gay-sympathetic. I wasn’t able to find anything like that the past half-hour, though.
If we abstract away from political agenda and evaluate hypotheses in their own right, the claim “transsexuality is a sexual fetish” is trivially disproven by the sheer number and range of available testimonies. There are even asexual transsexuals.
I remember encountering critics of transsexuality that were gay or gay-sympathetic. I wasn’t able to find anything like that the past half-hour, though.
Is it not a common right-wing point of view that transsexuality is a sexual fetish, and that the dichotomy between sex (biological) and gender (social) is a left-wing fiction? This is frequently part of a package of views that is more focused on criticism of homosexuality and feminism, but I remember encountering critics of transsexuality that were gay or gay-sympathetic. I wasn’t able to find anything like that the past half-hour, though.
Julie Bindel is the motherlode. Lesbian, essentialist view of femaleness and famously despises transsexuals.
Ergo: politics is the mind killer.
If we abstract away from political agenda and evaluate hypotheses in their own right, the claim “transsexuality is a sexual fetish” is trivially disproven by the sheer number and range of available testimonies. There are even asexual transsexuals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transphobia#Transphobia_in_the_lesbian.2C_gay_and_bisexual_community