10/01/2018
This article refers to biological s*x which is a misnomer. There is assigned s*x and authentic s*x just as there is for gender. Trans people are born their real identity, the one with which they identify. Whether that identity is binary or nonbinary. Whether they identify their s*x and gender as matching or not. The social construction of s*x which has been promulgated as scientific fact for generations now has completely ignored the gender and s*x identities of many people, including those we currently refer to as trans and inters*x. The science is in on trans people. They are born their authentic identity.
"Researchers at St. Louis University sought to determine which of these two types of gender nonconformity would be viewed as more unsettling to those who value the gender binary. While it is possible for anyone to stray from the gender binary in small or large ways, often transgender individuals seem to be perceived as a greater threat to binary views of gender than gender nonconforming cisgender people.
Kristin Broussard and Dr. Ruth Warner proposed that one reason for this might be that transgender individuals can be perceived as simultaneously transgressing the gender norms of BOTH binary genders. For example, a trans woman (i.e., someone assigned male at birth who now identifies as a woman) is transgressing male norms by identifying as a woman, but also may be seen as transgressing the norms of being a woman by not appearing feminine enough. Indeed, other research has found that transgender women are particularly at risk for prejudice and violence due to society’s general tendency to police femininity and to punish transgressions of misplaced femininity."
Recent research explores the link between the gender binary and transprejudice.
