Kristen Schilt, author of Just One of the Guys? discusses how the transgender process challenges traditional sociological approaches to understanding gender.
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Why are trans people referred to as a process? There is the process of transition, where one moves from ones gender assigned at birth to ones preferred gender.
Trans people challenge the social construction of gender even as their embodied identity is dismissed as invalid
Posted by: Hannah Rossiter | January 14, 2013 at 03:34 PM
I really haven't given much thought on the transgender sex, but it seems that they want to fit in and are confused about that process.
Posted by: Cheryl Hall | January 25, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Wonder when Obama is going to congratulated a transgendered athlete for coming out
Posted by: Zed Power | May 04, 2013 at 10:22 AM