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Chapter 19 I was originally a girl, not a man

How many genders are there?
Two kinds, male and female.

you are wrong!
Let's look at a story first:
Will, a 25-year-old Australian boy, was originally a beautiful female art designer. However, since she was 7 years old when she went to school, she wanted to be a boy and was very obsessed with rugby. She longed to play on the grass like a boy football.When Will was 23 years old, he resolutely accepted transgender treatment, transformed from a sexy beauty into a handsome handsome guy, and became the first transgender player in the history of Australian and even world rugby.

Through this story, we may suddenly realize that physical structure and physical characteristics are not the only criteria for judging gender.We are likely to be deceived by the illusion of "a man disguised as a woman or a woman disguised as a man" and "the body of a man under the face of a daughter or the body of a girl under a man".

In 1985, Jay Thomas, a well-known doctor of psychology in the United States, officially turned himself into Jenny Thomas.His move is not just a name change, but even his gender from male to female.This year, Jenny Thomas turned 40. She said that she had been waiting for this day for a long time.

In the first half of Jenny Thomas's life (at that time, he should still be called Jay Thomas), he always felt that his soul lived in a strange body. He should not be a hairy man with an Adam's apple and a rough voice. And a male with a ridiculous penis when it should be a woman.

Although he had excellent grades in school and struggled to find a good job after graduation, he was married twice and had children.But this trouble was always deep in his heart.It wasn't until he was 40 that he decided that he must face up to his gender issues.

Thus, Jie changed from "he" to "she".She began to try to challenge the dual identity, having the appearance and heart of a woman, but at the same time having the experience of being a man.She began to devote more attention to the study of society's gender discrimination and curiosity about "transgender people".

Jenny herself is the best research subject. She believes that the gender identity (that is, a psychological feeling of being male or female) of the vast majority of people in this world is consistent with their anatomical sex. "For example, when I was in my mother's womb, the doctor told my mother that I was a girl. When I was born, various physical characteristics absolutely proved that I was a woman. I grew up as a woman, and [-]% agree with this identity."

But some people have "gender identity disorder", commonly known as "transsexualism".Their gender identities are at odds with their anatomical gender, and it feels like a person lives wrapped up in an identity that doesn't belong to them.

In response, Jenny Thomas proposes some clinical features of gender identity disorder:
First, there is a strong and lasting identification with the other sex.For example, repeatedly emphasize that you want to be another gender; or like to wear clothes that have characteristics of another gender; even in games, you really like to play another gender; like to get together with many opposite sexes, and will not use your own gender traits to attract each other.

Second, have been uncomfortable with their own anatomical gender.For example, men often complain about why they have to pee standing up, why they have strange genitals, and so on.

Third, in fact, the body does not have the characteristics of "hermaphrodite", but patients often desire to grow the typical organs of the other sex.

Fourth, these strong feelings have affected the patient's function in important areas such as work, study, and normal social interaction.

According to psychological research, it is not the biological structure of a person that can judge gender, but a deep personal feeling, which we call gender identity.Gender identity disorder occurs when a person's biological sex does not match his or her psychological sex.For example, a man's biological characteristics indicate that his gender is male, but he wants to become a woman in his heart, that is to say, his psychological gender identifies himself as a woman, then there is a gender identity disorder.Similarly, a woman's biological characteristics show that her gender is female, but her psychological gender identifies herself as a man, which is also a gender identification disorder.

In simple terms, gender identity disorder is when a person expresses a psychological gender of the opposite sex under their biological sex.Gender identity disorder is generally rare and occurs more often in men than women.

The brain-burning logic of a genius or a madman
Gender identity disorder is not the same as transvestism.

Transvestism refers to sexual arousal by wearing clothes or accessories of the opposite sex, the main purpose of which is to obtain sexual gratification.Gender identity disorder refers to a man or woman who wants to live openly and completely as the opposite sex, and uses some means to make himself the opposite sex, rather than sexual desire as the main purpose.

Gender identity disorder is a gender inversion, not a sexual inversion.

Sexual perversion refers to the sexual arousal of things, things that should not arouse sexual arousal but arouse sexual arousal, fetishism, transvestism, exhibitionism, etc. are all a kind of sexual perversion.Gender inversion refers to the incompatibility with one's own gender role, and the biological sex does not match the psychological sex.

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