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Gender Roles
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Transgendereds Rosario and Currah would both concur that homosexuality is not always congruent to transsexuality. Rosario would argue that the world of psychiatry has made the atrocious mistake of viewing transsexuals as those who are plagued with Gender Identity Disorder. (pg. 36 Rosario) Rosario had a patient who was deemed a long- term issue, due to her “psychoses” and previous suicide attempts. Patient “B” as she was titled had a desire to become a gay man. When finally identifying the issue and having the ability to talk about the identity in which she wished to pursue her hallucinations and suicide attempts seized. However, once patient “B” was placed in a day clinic and choose to voice that she wanted to become a gay man, a psychiatrist believed that this new found communication was hindering her transition from involuntary psychiatric confinement to an independent, happy life. (pg. 36) Thus, illustrating the ignorance of the psychiatrist and a majority of the psychiatric community. Many in the psychiatric community view gender only by the view of the genitals. Gender is thus predisposed and can only fall under terms of biology and not innate feelings or desires. It is this mentality that has caused such a hindrance for a great deal of transvestites and transsexuals. The psychiatrist viewed patient “B” as a female heterosexual transsexual.” Rosario mocks the notion of patient “B” being labeled a heterosexual transsexual. The problem lies in not being able to divorce one’s biological identify from their inherit desires of the sex they wish to portray and become. Brandon must be viewed as a man and not as a woman that wants to become a man. Thus, Brandon is a heterosexual. He is a man who is sexually attracted to women. Regardless, of surgery his feelings of being a man are overwhelming in regards to his biological predisposition. Patient “B” is a female who wants to become a man to pursue other men. Psychiatrists fail to understand why patient “B” wouldn’t want to pursue men as a woman. Psychiatry according to Rosario would deem Brandon a female to male homosexual.
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