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By Jane Haile
One reads Miquel Missé’s The Myth of the Wrong Body with growing excitement and thumping of the air not just because of one’s sympathy with its content, but also because of his sociological approach to the material. Very few social scientists have seriously applied their skills to critical analysis of ideas about sex and gender.
The book analyzes narratives of transness and the author’s conviction of the incorrectness of his previous beliefs, which “robbed” him of his body.
There are two main narratives of transness: the dominant one, which Missé correctly identifies as emerging from the medical establishment is that trans individuals are “trapped in the wrong body” and therefore need to correct their bodies through (expensive) hormonal treatment and surgery; and a second, emerging and less popular narrative, which is that transness or transgender is a normal part of natural human variety and does not need to be fixed by expensive hormonal treatment and surgery. The myth of the wrong body is the mirror image of the myth that there are only two sexes and two genders...
por Ramón Martínez
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En apenas cuatro décadas el «Movimiento LGTB» ha transformado España. Un país que en 1975 se declaraba mayoritariamente favorable a la eliminación de la homosexualidad a través de leyes represivas es hoy, gracias a la ...
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Editorial Egales / Desatada
Para celebrar diez años publicando voces LGTB, hemos reunido esta selección de poemas de los poetas de la colección Desatada y algunas otras voces jóvenes que han aparecido recientemente. La muestra pretende ser un escaparate ...
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Pol es un niño de diez años que hasta ahora había sido un hijo ejemplar. Su hermana pequeña Celia y su hermano mayor Álex eran los que a día de hoy generaban más problemas ...
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