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| Type of paper: | Essay |
| Subject area: | Education |
| Academic level: | Master, PhD |
| Style: | MLA |
| Size: | 32.0 kB |
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894 words/4 pages
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| Author: | Lorette Mckenzie |
| Date submitted: | 2008-11-22 01:50:06 |
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| Tags: | story, gender, development, henry, method, area, philadelphia, gray, contrast, compare, Tracy, Iran, Ohlott, Total Area Covered, Total Area, Iranian President Ahmadinejad, Iranian, Henry Gray Running Head |
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The Gray Area of Gender One is either a man or a woman . There is no middle ground with gender . Gender is either black or white . There is no gray area and anyone who exists in the gray area is not accepted in society . To be accepted , he or she has to become male or female . This is the two-sex , two-gender system , or simply gender binarism . This system dictates that there are only two genders that exist , male and female . Any person must either be classified as either male or female in order to belong to society and to be accepted in society . It is this two-gender system that creates havoc on those who cannot simply be biologically categorized or classified as male or female . Intersexed individuals or those who have body parts or organs that are male and female encounter the biggest problem in such a streamlined classification system . The culture inherent in a two-gender system makes it impossible for intersexuals to live a normal life and to be considered members of society for such culture dictates that when one is not completely male or completely female , such person is a freak , an outcast of society . The seemingly most appropriate solutions that society has found for such dilemma are medical technologies that will make intersexuals either male or female . There is no gray area in gender . These problems are most evident in the experiences of the transsexuals in the United States and the intersexuals in Iran . These individuals may differ in cultural background but they share the same experiences when it comes to the scrutiny they receive for either their gender preference or their biological gender . It is the societal norm that biological determinism must be followed . What this means is that the gender a person is born with must be his gender all throughout his life . A person cannot choose what gender he wants . He must follow the dictates of his biological make-up . The problem arises with individuals that are born with both male and female genitalia also called the intersexuals . As earlier mentioned , these people are made to turn to medical procedures to rid themselves of such problem . Basically , intersexuals are most often forced to undergo surgical procedures that will make them either male or female for failure to do so may only cause greater problems for them . As Sterling (5 ) wrote , ``Scientific dogma has held fast to the assumption that without medical care hermaphrodites are doomed to a life of misery . Hermaphrodites have unruly bodies . They do not fall naturally into a binary classification only a surgical shoehorn can put them there ' Transexuals in the US and the intersexuals in Iran both turn to medical technologies in an attempt to fit in the prevailing gender binary system of society . For instance , Thomas , formerly Tracy , underwent surgery to complete his transition to become a man . Although it is not illegal to be a homosexual in the US , he underwent surgery simply because he felt that he was... |
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