Random question...

[conuly]

While I know this isn't the same as transgender-ism (transsexualism? transsomethingism?), it's certainly close enough for this question to pop into my mind.

In many societies, the gender roles and images are different from what they are here. For example, I remember reading in Jenn's anthro book that... some random society has the men characterized as being emotional, and the women as practical. Others have men devoted to makeup, while women disdain it, and so on. If you're somebody who in this society is placed in the wrong gender roles, would you still be transgendered if you had been born in a society where, say, the roles were very much reversed?

Yes, my terminology kinda sucks. Sorry. Feel free to correct.

And yes, I'm aware that this is all speculative, since there's no way for any of us to turn back the clock and try it.

Comments

[rho]

I don't know about the intersex community, but I do know that a scarily large proportion of the transsexual community is scarily narrow minded, discriminatory, misogynistic, misandric, conformist and so on. This would be one of the reasons why I have pretty much nothing to do with them these days. I'd probably go with being neither gender if I could do, but it's generally far too much effort to try to explain to people, so I mostly don't bother. I do list genderfree</a as one of my LJ interests though.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*wanders in* *strikes out 'transsexual'*

I note that a scarily large proportion of every single community I've been involved with has a tendancy toward such things. I don't know why.

I think it's part of why I tend to not want to belong to groups.