Binary System Of Gender
Soto
Perelló
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Eva Soto Perelló Professor Donna Singleton English Comp. 15 April 2010 Why There Is No Need For a
Binary
System
of
Gender
Every
human
being
is,
from
birth,
placed
in
different
categories
depending
on
the
social
conditions.
Society’s
assumptions
about
gender,
race,
creed
and
culture
are
used
to
define
one’s
identity,
ignoring
individuality.
The
factors
that
have
the
greatest
impact
on
one’s
lifestyle,
such
as
gender,
are
those
that
are
supposedly
predetermined
by
nature
and
not
chosen.
Depending
on
the
biological
sex
each
person
is
born
with,
people
are
immediately
classified
as
male
or
female.
The
definition
of
both
subjects
includes
a
specific
characterization
of
the
social
role,
which
has
also
been
assumed
as
natural.
However,
after
several
decades
of
study
we
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By the information we find in the geneticist’s study, there seems to be no need for “fixing” these people’s physical deviation’s from the regular male or female type. Burke paraphrases “… except in terms of life‐threatening conditions, surgical intervention after birth [is] simply preventing the natural, and real, human physical diversity to become visible” (221). Fausto‐Sterling is, then, asking to normalize the real identity of this people in society, instead of making them the difference that needs to adapt. She is implying that there is nothing wrong with them; they are just as normal as any other sex. Being a minority is not enough of a reason to hide or exclude people from their need for consideration. If we are even challenging the natural assumptions of a two‐sex world, how are we going to create an ideal binary system of gender that could possibly work? Nevertheless, we still take endless measures to try to make it work. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided to add a new diagnosis called Gender Identity Disorder (GID). Since the last reform in 1994, this diagnosis includes people who (1) repeatedly stated desire to be… the other sex; (2) In boys, preference for cross‐dressing or simulating female attire; in
By the information we find in the geneticist’s study, there seems to be no need for “fixing” these people’s physical deviation’s from the regular male or female type. Burke paraphrases “… except in terms of life‐threatening conditions, surgical intervention after birth [is] simply preventing the natural, and real, human physical diversity to become visible” (221). Fausto‐Sterling is, then, asking to normalize the real identity of this people in society, instead of making them the difference that needs to adapt. She is implying that there is nothing wrong with them; they are just as normal as any other sex. Being a minority is not enough of a reason to hide or exclude people from their need for consideration. If we are even challenging the natural assumptions of a two‐sex world, how are we going to create an ideal binary system of gender that could possibly work? Nevertheless, we still take endless measures to try to make it work. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided to add a new diagnosis called Gender Identity Disorder (GID). Since the last reform in 1994, this diagnosis includes people who (1) repeatedly stated desire to be… the other sex; (2) In boys, preference for cross‐dressing or simulating female attire; in