But not as many as ought to be. A lot of the work on transphobia seems to be centered around understanding its effects on trans people, or on helping trans people to cope with it. Which are worthwhile endeavors, but addressing the symptoms rather than the causes.
Do you think that understanding the phenomena of cis and trans (e.g. what model should be used to frame gender identity, what causes cis and trans identities) is at all worthwhile? Or do you think that it's beside the point since it doesn't directly help trans people?
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regna
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Date: 2009-12-19 05:44 pm (UTC)Some people appear to actually be doing this.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q124gu26164651m1/
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909392359&db=all
http://www.psy.surrey.ac.uk/people/staff/p.hegarty/LGBT/2005%20Hill%20Transphobia.pdf
But not as many as ought to be. A lot of the work on transphobia seems to be centered around understanding its effects on trans people, or on helping trans people to cope with it. Which are worthwhile endeavors, but addressing the symptoms rather than the causes.
Do you think that understanding the phenomena of cis and trans (e.g. what model should be used to frame gender identity, what causes cis and trans identities) is at all worthwhile? Or do you think that it's beside the point since it doesn't directly help trans people?