Legitimisation by Cause

Local time: Thursday, 6.43pm

An article on the intersection between transsexual and intersexual issues has been making the rounds which is well worth reading. And in many ways this resonates with my objections to the HBS/true transsexual views I'd previously written about; namely, that transsexuality doesn't need to have an extensive medical understanding and biological nature, and campaigning for it to be categorised under the already-complex intersexual label is ludicrous at best.

So let's get over it: Transsexuality happens. It has always happened. No, we don't quite know why. We have theories, and certain things about it are easier to explain if it does happen to be biological in nature. Some studies have been done. Nothing has been conclusive as of this writing.

Whether or not the causes are biological, our problems are societal. Maybe society thinks that transsexualism would be more legitimate if there were conclusive biological evidence, but that's society's problem, because it also thinks that there's something wrong with women who date women and men who like to dress up from time to time. But what does that legitimacy mean?

...because some people might take it to mean there's a way to "fix" us, before we "mutilate" ourselves, and others might think if the condition is detectable, it may be grounds for abortion, a la Klinefelter's Syndrome.