The
west has done a great disservice to humanity by reducing genders to a
binary. This partly reflects the western mentality that only that which
can physically be seen is real, the rest is non-existent. Although,
gender can be physically seen (in terms of dresses, mannerisms,
expressions, etc.), the west only looks at the outer-sex organs of
people in order to decide their gender. However, this totally misses an
important feature of gender that resides within us.
The fact however remains that there are, in actuality, as many as six different human genders. Since, only two human genders constitute the majority, and the rest are in a minority, eversince the politics of male gender and sexuality took birth, the human genders were reduced to just three, the world over. The West, took this politics a step further and reduced the three genders to just two.
However, the most important reason for the west's discarding the other gender identities apart from the binary male and female, in particular its discarding of the biological concept of 'inner-sex' is because, inner-sex is unimportant as far as reproduction is concerned, and the west is so pathologically obsessed with reproduction, that anything that is immaterial for reproduction is negated by the west.
However, this has created a lot of human traits and people redundant as well as diseased. One such group -- the effeminates/ transgendered males that liked men, sought a way out of this mess, by redefining themselves (albeit wrongly) as 'men who like men,' with all its consequences for men. Now, although, the west did not want to recognize 'gender orientation' as valid, it had no qualms about validating the existence of 'homosexuals' (sexual orientation) because it fits perfectly into its politics meant to denigrate and stigmatize man-man bonds. By calling a group of effeminate, amoral and sexually promiscuous queens 'men who like men,' the western society and its science saw a perfect opportunity to denigrate the very trait of man desiring another man, and to make this trait inaccessible to males with manhood, by categorizing it completely into this transgendered zone.
However, left unnoticed is another group of people who were rendered 'abnormal' and denied validity by the western society -- these were people who were extremely transgendered -- i.e. males who simply had no male identity inside them. I.e. they are feminine gendered to the extreme. While gays fit into the male-female binary system, and they can be feminine without needing to alter their body, and were happy with having a separate gender category for themselves even if it was defined in terms of 'sexuality,' the extreme third genders, became total misfits into the binary system.
A totally healthy, normal and positive gender thus started to see itself as diseased, and also developed an intense hatred for the male body -- a phenomenon also witnessed in lesser form in the non-western world, which although, had a third gender, but, gave little rights to the physical hermaphrodites. In the non-western world, such people would become physical eunuchs -- and there is a myth in places like India, that the term 'third gender' signifies only the physical eunuchs, and for a long time, western 'homosexuals' were thought to be physical eunuchs as well.
This phenomenon is taken to the extreme in the west, and transexuals have simply no place in the society -- not even a denigrated one. So, they seek a sex change operation, which, at least, superficially changes the outer sex of the individual, even if the surgically altered sexual organs cannot operate like the biological ones.
This need to castrate or alter one's sex will not be there if only the society can recognize and give a healthy and positive space to the transexuals as 'third genders,' because no matter how much they would love to be seen as 'biological women,' this is not practical -- neither socially nor biologically.
The fact however remains that there are, in actuality, as many as six different human genders. Since, only two human genders constitute the majority, and the rest are in a minority, eversince the politics of male gender and sexuality took birth, the human genders were reduced to just three, the world over. The West, took this politics a step further and reduced the three genders to just two.
However, the most important reason for the west's discarding the other gender identities apart from the binary male and female, in particular its discarding of the biological concept of 'inner-sex' is because, inner-sex is unimportant as far as reproduction is concerned, and the west is so pathologically obsessed with reproduction, that anything that is immaterial for reproduction is negated by the west.
However, this has created a lot of human traits and people redundant as well as diseased. One such group -- the effeminates/ transgendered males that liked men, sought a way out of this mess, by redefining themselves (albeit wrongly) as 'men who like men,' with all its consequences for men. Now, although, the west did not want to recognize 'gender orientation' as valid, it had no qualms about validating the existence of 'homosexuals' (sexual orientation) because it fits perfectly into its politics meant to denigrate and stigmatize man-man bonds. By calling a group of effeminate, amoral and sexually promiscuous queens 'men who like men,' the western society and its science saw a perfect opportunity to denigrate the very trait of man desiring another man, and to make this trait inaccessible to males with manhood, by categorizing it completely into this transgendered zone.
However, left unnoticed is another group of people who were rendered 'abnormal' and denied validity by the western society -- these were people who were extremely transgendered -- i.e. males who simply had no male identity inside them. I.e. they are feminine gendered to the extreme. While gays fit into the male-female binary system, and they can be feminine without needing to alter their body, and were happy with having a separate gender category for themselves even if it was defined in terms of 'sexuality,' the extreme third genders, became total misfits into the binary system.
A totally healthy, normal and positive gender thus started to see itself as diseased, and also developed an intense hatred for the male body -- a phenomenon also witnessed in lesser form in the non-western world, which although, had a third gender, but, gave little rights to the physical hermaphrodites. In the non-western world, such people would become physical eunuchs -- and there is a myth in places like India, that the term 'third gender' signifies only the physical eunuchs, and for a long time, western 'homosexuals' were thought to be physical eunuchs as well.
This phenomenon is taken to the extreme in the west, and transexuals have simply no place in the society -- not even a denigrated one. So, they seek a sex change operation, which, at least, superficially changes the outer sex of the individual, even if the surgically altered sexual organs cannot operate like the biological ones.
This need to castrate or alter one's sex will not be there if only the society can recognize and give a healthy and positive space to the transexuals as 'third genders,' because no matter how much they would love to be seen as 'biological women,' this is not practical -- neither socially nor biologically.
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