When it comes to transgender people, many of us get confused by the terms used, and “who is who.” I think this is a very helpful and clear explanation. As this post from TransWave Jamaica notes, being human is a “complex and beautiful experience.” TransWave is a recently established resource on health and lifestyle issues for the transgender community.
In Western society, gender and sex are presented as synonymous, static concepts. I remember viewing pictures of a Girls and Boys Day that a friend took at the private pre-school his children attended. As you can do doubt guess, the girls were dressed in pretty pastel coloured frocks, wore tiaras, had tea and pastries. The boys rough and tumbled it outside in the yard, made toy vehicles with juice boxes, and ran around in their pants and shirts. It was a clear, if extremely limited, example of Jamaica’s take on gender: what is to be feminine vs masculine. It’s social.
Sex seems simpler. We are born, the doctors identify us as male or female by our external sex organs: penis or vulva (the outer part of the vagina). As we physically develop, our chromosomal and hormonal make-up will cooperate, and we’ll have the deepening voices or growing breasts that our…
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Thank you so much for the reblog, Emma! We’ll keep you up-to-date on all our happenings.
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You’re welcome, and thank you for this post – it’s very helpful!
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