Cristan

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Identity VS Reality VS Definitions

If you’re a researcher or provide services to a target population, how do you  work with identity vs reality vs definitions? How does your datasets deal with: White people who do not identify as white Non-transsexuals who identify as being transsexual Transgender people who do not identify as being transgender Black people who do not […]

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1981: Transgender, To Transcend Gender

Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981   In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as well: Chiefliness and aristocracy are associated with active sexuality and with the stimulation of the fertility of nature (Ortner). – Page 17 Whitehead suggests that the […]

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