Intresting » Gender-bending News Report | Denny Burk

A transgender person is someone who identifies psychologically with a gender that is opposite of his biological gender. The whole category of transgender assumes that gender is a social construct. This view treats gender not as something that you are born with (vis a vis biology) but as a set of stereotypes and preferences that one learns from his culture. On the nature-vs.-nurture spectrum, gender is all nurture and no nature. Gender is something that you learn, not something that you are.

Thus in contemporary gender theory, one’s gender is not biologically determined. It is set by whatever a person feels themselves to be. If a person that is biologically male feels like he should be a female, then we should call him a “she.” Because maleness and femaleness is a social construct, one need not be biologically male to in fact be a female.

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