Making Love Just IV

Ellison, pp. 114-123
Internet Assignment:
Transgendered explained for Those who are not: http://www.joanneherman.com/Transgender_Explained.html

International Transgender Day of Remembrance http://www.transgenderdor.org/

20/20 Intersex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1yk2Va9qc

Watch the HBO Documentary:

Middle Sex: Redefining He and She http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gyoq6tdlsE

Answer the following questions:

1) Use the internet to define the following terms: Transgender, transvestite, female to male (f-to-m) transgender male, male to (m-to-f) transgender female, intersex, cis-gender.

2) What did you learn about the Transgender Day of Remembrance?

3) Why are there such violent reactions to gender transitions?

4) Middle Sex presents cultural variations of Gender Variance. What makes a male male and a female female? Is it biological plumbing, cultural constructions of gender, or gender self-identitication?