Challenging gender

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CHALLENGING GENDER
Dean Spade highly disqualifies and refutes the transgender and transsexual view as an illness and as a disorder. There is an option of choosing to have sex exchange surgery or not. The writer draws upon the concept of free will for all. That a person is free to do whatever they please and feel right and not be confined by what the society thinks is normal. Current society, though in modern times, is still confined under highly retrogressive and traditional views. They do not allow a gray area where transgenders and transsexuals can blend in and fade into the background. Most of them are treated as psychiatric patients and subjected to endless sessions with counselors and psychologists.
The writer also disagrees with the concept of conventional outlook on the basis that those who are to evaluate the realness of a transgender’s identity often require some form of a story such as a background of Gender Identity Disorder to offer any type of assistance to a transgender person. The writer thus defies this rule by saying that one does not require to purport a childhood desire to become gender dysphasia. In the writer’s own experience Lesbianism can occur to anyone and at any time of their life. In the words of Rachel Pollack, no one can determine what another person can be.
For any transgender to obtain a surgical procedure to fulfill a certain desire to be a particular gender, then they must go through a psychological test to ensure that they do not regret their decisions later on.

To be judged by a non-transgender is considered an unfair act among the transgenders. This is because these people do not know the struggle that they all underwent and the situation they are in.
Another aspect of this is that in order for anyone to pass any agreement to a surgical procedure, they have to be satisfied that the person seeking a certain procedure is fully committed. This concept is called Choosing Perspective Passing “Full Time.” It states that for a transgender they have to show a commitment to a certain gender of choosing, for instance, from the reading Dean Spade had no problem with the mastectomy not being realized which was seen as a lack of commitment by the counselor. As such transgenders are forced to lie and cheat their way through placed systems to get what they want.
Society creates standards that have to be met by every transsexual in order to get any cost effective service from any legal and even medical professional. The writer states that most of these people only treat textbook cases. Thus they are all obliged to conform to certain standards in order not to look as social deviants but as individuals who require some form of assistance.
The author claims that it is only through the society imparting certain beliefs to people that they normalize the concept of woman and man in black and white to the generations. It is stated that no child is born with an innate idea of what a man and a woman are. As such it is only through the teachings of society that they learn what and how to behave according to their original genders. These concepts leave transgenders trapped in a body they believe to be inhabiting wrongly. As such the author calls for a gender neutral society where persons are let to choose who to be.