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December 3, 2010 Print We’re in a World of Gender Confusion


Posted by Jeff Johnston

I was talking to a friend the other day about the onslaught of stories I’ve been seeing about gender confusion – confusion about what it means to be male or female. Here’s a brief roundup:

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) amends its constitution, dropping the requirement that players be “female at birth.” A former male SWAT team member now living as a woman, Lana Lawless, had sued the organization in order to play in a tournament.

A group of students from Seattle’s Queer Youth Space travels around to schools, churches, detention centers and counseling groups. Their goal is to reteach gender and sexuality. Here are just a few statements from their 3-minute video:

It’s about being queer. This is reteaching gender and sexuality. Because we all have a gender and a sexuality. I am a boy and a girl. This is about how my identities cannot be summed up in letters. People assume that I’m a boy.

An IRS Tax Court awards the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders group $250,000 for court costs. The costs were incurred in a case earlier this year, when the IRS ruled that medical expenses for “sexual reassignment surgery” could be deducted from a transgender-identified woman’s income tax filing. The majority in the 11 - 5 decision believed that surgery and hormones were medically necessary to treat Gender Identity Disorder (GID). Men and women with GID believe they were born the wrong sex and often attempt to become the opposite sex.

A female college athlete tells her coach and team that she is a man, because that is how she feels inside. So against all the physical evidence of her body, those around her talk to her as if she were a man. The NCAA begins developing new policies to deal with gender-confused athletes.

The Women’s Sports Foundation and the National Center for Lesbian Rights creates and is promoting a guide for high schools and colleges to deal with “transgendered” students: On The Team: Equal Opportunity for Transgender Student Athletes.