I need to learn about transgendered people.

I got an essay due and the suggested reading materials don't cut it for me.

1. In what ways do intersexed and transgendered people challenge assumptions about biological sex (male/female) and the relation between biological sex and gender (masculinity/femininity).

2. How do norms of masculine and feminine appearance create problems for transgendered people?

3. On the basis of these considerations, what conclusions do you draw about the relation between sex and gender?

These are the questions I need to answer.

I'm looking for informative links right now. Interviews with intersexed people and transexuals would be ace, but I'll appreciate just about anything.

The book "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised A Girl" by John Colapinto is very good.

look here

san francisco is rich with history about this topic, they will steer you to the best resources available

That's going on the Amazon wishlist.

Thanks Papa.

[Edited on Nov 20, 2005 by Kid_Dangerbot]

Whatever else you read up on, you should make yourself aware of the case of David Reimer.

See Wikipedia entry and a book on his case.

Note that he was not intersex or voluntary transgender, but that is in fact why his case matters in terms of the generality of conclusions that can be drawn from babies born intersex or those who choose a different lifestyle or actual gender reassignment.

Aw snap!

I didn't see that article on my search of the boards. Thanks.

Thanks for the David Reimer links.

Since I think the simplest reaction is the best: David Reimer's life sucked.

Apparently I picked the right day to find my way online.

I'd be willing to consent to an interview. Email me through my profile; be aware I'll only be online for the next hour or two.

Thanks, I floated a comment your way. Really not confident in my interviewing abilities.

Erm.. misread your post there. Sorry about that.

Sent a reply e-mail (making sure you got it).

Wasn't there a study recently on the the brains of Male to Female trans genders that showed that there was a specific part of the brain that was actually identical to that of a females brain rather then a male?

it would certianly suggest a biological reason behind it.

Any idea where I could find what you're talking about?

check out psych websites...it helps a lot

google search on transgender brain scan?

I saw it on a documentry nearly a year ago (didn't realize it was that long ago) so Can't help directly

http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtc0106.htm
however that actually has images from the brain scans and seems to be cited.

Thanks a bunch.

no worries.

A friend of mine who is going through this right now said there have been links to the drug they gave mothers in the 1960s to keep them from miscarrying and/or going into premature labor. Apparently, this happened mostly with male babies (she was born a male). I wish I could remember the name of the drug.

well I think this is mostly a male thing (it obviously happens the other way too but, we do all start off as female to begin with it's alot easier for you not to full be male then it is to almost be male from a brain stand point I would assume.

wow...circumcision is whack. or rather, botched circumcision is whack

Yeah but kick ass, best in show type circumcision is like, breathtaking.