Kinsey's Misused Legacy: Moving on from continuums

Zowie Davy
@zowiedavy
 The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black
nor all things white. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to
force facts into separate pigeonholes (Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 2003
[1948]: 897).
 “matter of individual differences within a continuous scheme of sexual
distribution” (Bauer, 2007: 5)
 Edward Carpenter’s (1912) ‘Uranians’ or ‘third sexes’
 Havelock Ellis’ (1942 [1905], 1994 [1897]) ‘sexual inverts’
 Hirschfeld’s (1991 [1910]) ‘sexual Intermediaries.’
 trans* as "across", "beyond" or "on the opposite side”
Trans advocates’ claims are often in the form of a cerebral DSD condition (see
Brain, 2012; Gender Identity Research and Education Society, 2006;
Transgender London, 2011; TS-SI, 2008).
“Many transgender people have believed for the longest time that biology had
been the cause. I myself believe this as my earliest memories were that of
wanting to be a girl even before I learnt to spell. Hopefully further studies like
this will prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the phenomenon is a natural
occurrence, leading to social acceptance of transgender people” (SameSame,
2008).
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