Pregnant Men & the Genderqueer

When Sigmund Freud first arrived in the United States from Europe in 1909, he was surprised by the welcome he and his unorthodox ideas received from Americans. “My short visit to the New World,” he wrote, “encouraged my self respect in every way. In Europe I felt as though I were despised but in America I found myself received by the foremost of men as an equal.” Although much of his psychoanalytic theory has been tweaked in the last century, Freud still holds a place in the history of neuroscience for his efforts to understand what exactly forms a person. Today, there’s no shortage of psychologists and scientists rushing to fill the gaps in what is known about human personality The "Pregnant Man" Queer As Folk DVDIn today’s sensationalistic social climate, it seems that the more bizarre a story is, the better—or at least, the more airtime it gets. Back in 2008, it seemed that the entire country was talking about 24-year-old Thomas Beatie, otherwise known as the “pregnant man”Queer As Folk DVD. Popular opinion ran the gamut from members of the transgender community who maintained that Thomas’ masculine brain qualified him as a man despite his female reproductive organs, to dumbfounded onlookers who couldn’t understand how a person who so staunchly believed himself to be male, would want to go through pregnancy and childbirth. It seems that we are beyond asking if a person is attracted to men or to women, or even if a person feels psychologically male or female. Individuals like Beatie actually put into question what it essentially means to be, or to feel, masculine versus feminine.Queer As Folk DVD
The Science of GenderMedical professionals have certainly taken a crack at putting the puzzle together. Gender Identity Disorder Queer As Folk DVD boxset is the official psychiatric term used to describe people who are dissatisfied with their biological gender. The American Psychiatric Association uses specific criteria to diagnose such individuals, and many of its constituents maintain that the condition is caused by a sort of divergence between physical and neural development in utero—that is, a so-called “male-” or “female brain” forms inside a body that has the reproductive organs of the opposite gender. This theory suggests an underlying genetic or hormonal basis for GID.Queer As Folk DVD boxsetMany in the transgender community combat the very definitions of conditions like GID, and their characterization as “disorders” in the first place. With homosexuality Queer As Folk DVD boxset having just been declassified as a disorder in 1973, it’s to be expected that the “T” part of the LGBT community has its sights set on lessening the perception of abnormality and even danger that is often associated with it. Many call into question the APA’s system of diagnosis, as it relies heavily on traditional standards of “normal” male and female behavior. As Kelley Winters, advocate for GID re-definition, commented on her GID reform website, "behaviors that would be ordinary or even exemplary for gender-conforming boys and girls are presented as symptomatic of mental disorder for gender nonconforming children" . Clearly, if a woman-turned-man can still be sufficiently in touch with his feminine side in order to carry a baby to term (not just once, in Beatie’s case, but soon to be three times), “normal” may be the most undefinable word of all.
While religion is often seen to be standing in the way of tolerance, members of the political right wing are not the only people who are, at the very least, highly confused about increasingly eyebrow-raising news. One online article about Scott Moore (Neil Nagraj, NY Daily News), another highly publicized “pregnant man” who is legally married (since Moore retained his female birth certificate) to another transgender male, has become riddled with skeptical comments from readers since its publication in January 2010. One of the more benign comments reads, “Confusing. Let me see if I have this correct…what we have here is two gay men Queer As Folk DVD boxset each of which [sic] is trapped in a lesbian's body, who want to have a baby” (NY Daily News).The Genderqueer RevolutionStill others go beyond behavioral or surgical sex reassignment Queer As Folk DVD boxset to defy the very concept of gender. Individuals who consider themselves “genderqueer” sometimes don’t even refer to themselves using male or female pronouns. The manifesto of genderqueerrevolution.com reads in part, “our stories tell us that genderqueer and gender non-conforming people need a safe haven, a uniquely genderqueer, gender-defying, gender-gifted, gender non-conforming, non-binary space. In GenderQueer Revolution community space, no one will force you to choose a label.” Naturally, critics voice the same sense of puzzlement that could be seen in the Scott Moore discussion. It’s simply illogical, they say, to be both a man and not a man.Queer As Folk seasons 1-5 DVD boxset
For those who just can’t wrap their minds around such things, an environmental theory of gender can be a bit easier to comprehend. “Sexual Reorientation” therapists and “ex-gay” ministers maintain that childhood abuse or failure to bond with the same-sex parent Queer As Folk seasons 1-5 DVD boxset are the true causes for homosexuality and gender questioning—therefore implying that such people can be tidily rewired through therapy. The International Healing Foundation is one example of a group that provides such services
In our age of boundary pushing and bodice ripping, the divide between liberalism and conservatism feels like it’s never been larger or harder to bridge.Queer As Folk DVD Everyone seems to agree, though, that now is a time of speaking up, whether to explain the unusual, to declare oneself as unusual, or to be disgusted with it all. So let the ideas keep coming. In the country that deigned to welcome Freud with open arms, where a man can have a baby and a woman can request that people nonchalantly refer to her with the gender-neutral “ze” rather than “she,” who’s to say that anything can’t at least be said?

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