ARTICLE: The long history of gender variance in culture and medicine.

[Ryan Goble]

Great article by MD & author of Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Cal... Gavin Francis in the New Republic...

The best passage is toward the end...

As a doctor my role is to ease suffering and promote health; I’m less interested in the rights and wrongs of gender variance treatments than in whether they help the individual before me to flourish. Gender variance holds a mirror up to the polarization of gender in our own society, which instructs us relentlessly and emphatically to choose. Forcing this choice can be harmful and isn’t backed up by the scientific evidence. We are developing a greater understanding of gender variance and, in tandem, society is developing increasing tolerance toward gender ambiguity.

Full article is HERE.

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