Transsexualism as a natural diversity in human sexual formation
Different Insignia of a Person's Sex
Examples of Sexual Diversity in Human beings
* gross genital ambiguity may be apparent at birth ^ can be assigned to a legal sex at odds with neurological sex / gender identity due to genital appearance at birth - only observable at puberty or later Defining Male and Female"Recent advances in the field of the genetics of sexual
development have shown the extreme complexity of defining
males and females from a biological standpoint. There is no
one biological parameter that clearly defines sex. The
second point is that there are differences between male and
female brains very early in development. This suggests that
the sexualization of the brain happens very early during
embryonic life. The last point is that significant
minorities of individuals are left out of simple civil
rights because they don't fit established categories of
sex." "And what I began to realise very early on is that in
order to discover who or what a child is or for that matter
who or what an adult is you have to ask them…I have a
six year old, two seven year olds, (and) two eight year olds
who spontaneously declare it (a sex different from that
assigned based upon genitalia). They say "I'm a boy and I
don't know how you could not know that…" and sometimes
they'll start just saying "My name is Bob…" "Traditionally an individual's primary sex characteristic
is the person's gonads. It is now understood that an
individual's gonads or other characteristics frequently do
not correspond with other features of self and variations
are common. And this is the case in conditions of
transsexuality and intersex (and transsexuality can be
considered a form of intersexuality).." "In my view the expert evidence in this case affirms that brain development is (at least) an important determinant of a person's sense of being a man or a woman. No contrary opinion is expressed. All the experts are very well qualified." and "In my view the evidence demonstrates (at least on the
balance of probabilities) that the characteristics of
transsexuals are as much "biological" as those of people
thought of as inter-sex." |
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