Yet, despite their progression toward empathy and realism, cinematic portrayals of
transsexuality, even most recent examples, do more to depict the fear and hatred surrounding gender transgression than to cast doubt on mainstream clarities and interrogate the binary gender system.
Very little information about
transsexuality was available.
Between April 2008 and March 2009, police recorded 606 crimes motivated by racism, homophobia, discrimination against
transsexuality and religious hatred.
However, I found the discussion on the role of transgender and
transsexuality theories in gender studies rather terse.
"Soon I was living as a woman almost constantly, except during work hours, but as my confidence grew, I consulted a specialist psychiatrist who confirmed my
transsexuality and prescribed female hormones which softened my skin and encouraged breast development."
In 2000, the Vatican circulated a confidential document outlining the Church's official view of
transsexuality. This document, written by Jesuit priest Father Urbana Navarrete, was delivered sub secretum to the heads of religious orders the world over.
The "Queer Vibrations" conference also served to raise some fundamental questions about the relationship between femininity,
transsexuality, and embodiment in the context of both women's music festivals and Third Wave feminism (Elizabeth K.
"Free market capitalism, and its culture of greed and consumerism, is a far greater threat to the ecological survival of our planet than homosexuality and
transsexuality."
(18) Bornstein points out that the character's reaction in the film, as well as the way in which the film was critically acclaimed without ever speaking to the issue of
transsexuality, indicated that our culture has a deeply ingrained instinct to view
transsexuality as something secret, hidden.
The gene variant is linked to female-to-male
transsexuality, and affects an enzyme which is involved in the processing of sex hormones.