Discussion Paper Is trans* natural?

The stigmatization of gender, right or wrong? 

Female,male, trans, gay or lesbian? The discussion about gender and sexual interest iswidely diversified, but is it possible to label our gender or sexual interest?

Punky and Elvia, two female red-faced maragues, lived togetherfor yearsand now theywant to have a gay marriage. It's a big debate,because for non-human animals it's not appropriate to have a gay relationship.The society of human beingsproject human relations on non-human animals. The projection starts with the religious Christen-Thinking, in which it is inappropriate to marry a person with the same sex. These old traditions and the old thinking alsodoesn't allow homosexual relationships as well as animals or even human beings to change their gender. (Hird, 2006, p.37f.)

In this specific case of Punky and Elvia, it's less of a matter of how non-human beings behaveand more a matter of facts how we think they have to behave. TheChristian-thinking of humans present the image of a heterosexual relationship and marriage, which creates the classification of natural and abnormal, which leads again to heterosexual is normal and homosexual is abnormal(Hird, 2006, p.35f.).'[N]ature is often invoked in discussions of morality in so faras natural behaviors are considered to be more superior.'(Hird, 2006)

Darwin mentionsthe sexual selection in is theory of evolution.The sexual selection includes the preferences of the individuals, like race, color, taste of choice. It represents the sexual appeal and the attractiveness of the individual (Grosz, 2005,p.22ff.). That means if a man is attracted to a man it's because of the sexual section. This theory proves that it is humane t have a sexual preference, even if it is being attracted to the same sex. 

It's impossible to put a classification on the gender or the sex. Some animals are intersexual, like barnacles.They first appeared to be sex dimorphic, but acloser inspection leadsto an interesting discovery.Barnacles can be intersex, which means thatthey can be maleas well asfemale. In that case itshard to put a label of gender on them. (Hird, 2006, p.36f.). Alaimo argues that there is a term called'trans-corporeality''. It is “(…) the recognition of substantial interconnections between human corporeality and more-than-human world.” (Alaimo, 2009). It expresses interactions of the openness of human bodies and non-human beings, like bacteria, which leads to the conclusion, that there is a sameness between human beings and animals or non-human beings. 

It's in discussion that trans people, or non-human beings can't live fully in their chosen gender.For example a trans womanisnot able togive birth or toget their period, which is the nature ofthe female gender, according to the heterosexist arguments (Sturgeon, 2010, p.105f.).But what is the nature of a women? Can't a transgender women live fully like a women as non-transgender women do?

There is no such as nature of a women, which is clearly defined. The naturalness of gayness for feminist is getting a lot of critiqueas well. If people argue that it's natural for animals to be gay, it includes, that it is natural for humans to be gay as well, because we are all creature of nature. But if that is true, than there should be a gene for being gay, but there isn't, becausenot everything is in our body. Also science doesn't have the answerand found a definite answer to the naturalness of gayness.(Ebd., p.106ff.).So we can't really define the nature of the male or female gender. Therefore it's not correct to say, that a transgender women can't live fully in her chosen gender.

All in all it can't be said that gayness is natural andwe also can't put an exact label on everything. Asthe non-human animals have shown, it is possible to have to differentgenders, which can variate to the natural events,and to be gay orheterosexual at the same time. Gayness can be natural of it's choice.The trans-corporeality shows, the openness of the human body, there is an interaction between human being and non-human beings.There is a connection between them, so the animal world showed us, that it is possible to have different genders, and to live as a homosexual or heterosexual without putting an exact label on it.

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