Monday, February 5, 2007

An Issue of Gender

A little addendum to the transgender info printed in an earlier blog. The information was taked from Dr. Ava Cadell's newsletter, an esteemed Sexologist in the field of sex therapy, sex education and sex work. I did want to clarify that there are different spellings. In her article she spells Transsexual with 2 "s"s. This actually refers to the Psychiatric field, and their spelling. The other spelling is Transexual, with 1 "s" which is a new and improved spelling by the Trans community itself in an attemp to "divorce the word from the realm of psychiatry and medicine and place it in the realm of identity." (wikipedia, 2006).

Also the word Transgender is almost a better word to use, as it subtracts sex and sexuality from the occasion and makes it an issue of Gender, not sex. Not to mention it includes others such as Crossdressers, dragkings/queens and the gender queer. So, it is more of an umbrella, all inclusive, politically correct term.

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