WS 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Binary, Cisgender, Sexual Politics

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WS 104
• Professor: Melissa Avdeeff

Document Summary

Those who do not identify with/fit into gender binary assigned at birth. May or may not be intersex, thus not fitting into sex binary of male" or female". May or may not choose hormonal and/or surgical sex change. Sex and gender match to fit a binary view. Used to mean a person who got erotic pleasure from passing as a gender not assigned at birth. Increasingly used to simply refer to cross-dressing for any reason. Transsexual is sometimes used for those who pass as one side of the gender binary and make changes to their body morphology to do so. [but] transgender is increasingly used to encompass transsexual as well. Unlike intersex, there is a high degree of informed consent. Strong feeling that one isn"t the gender assigned at birth outdated term. Pass the real life test" (gender identity disorder outdated term, suggests mental illness) Average time 3 months before access to hormone treatment.