WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Sex Assignment

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Their bodies, and their personal identity, complementing transgender use instead of normal. Umbrella term transgender tells us gender isn"t stable, inherent or natural. Transgender pushes the binary structure of gender (and sexuality) and reminds of us the liminal (the space in between) Increase in the number of people identifying as transgender or gender blending, gender queer. Must rethink the normalcy and assumed naturalness of gender. Transgender politics opens new ways to be/think about gender. Alerts us to a third (or more ) gender. Third gender is thought of as occupying the liminal space between the dualistic. An accepting approach to gender ambiguity has not been prevalent in the west masculinity and femininity (binary rules) Many cultures have a place for a third gender. Anthropological studies reveal that transgendered people express themselves in ways that are culturally quite distinct, with frames of reference that are not always translatable.