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Voor het integrale (in engels geschreven) bericht, lees Can Transsexuals Sue Their Employers For Sex Discrimination?.
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LisaThe transsexual - almost by definition - accepts the notion that there are important differences between men and women. A person who seeks sexual reassignment surgery and hormone treatment ordinarily does not believe that one's sex is either entirely or largely irrelevant to the way one lives one's life. Instead, the transsexual tends to embrace the idea that women and men really are very different. It is because of this difference that a person who experiences himself or herself as "truly" being of the opposite sex will remain unhappy until he or she can physically become that sex.
In this respect, the transsexual is very "essentialist" about gender. While many feminists contest the true centrality of biological sex - except in maintaining cultural hierarchy - transsexuals tend to feel that there is, indeed, a fundamental divide between masculinity and femininity, and they wish to relocate to the other side of that divide. Rather than blurring or challenging the lines between men and women, transsexuals affirm those lines and seek out surgery designed to cross them.
The gender essentialism of the transsexual is challenging, because a more radical view of gender - as almost entirely irrelevant - offers the most promise to him or her of freedom from sex discrimination. If everyone has the right to use the same bathroom, for example, then the transsexual will not have to face a battle over whether a person who was born a biological male should be allowed to use the ladies' room. And if everyone can dress in as masculine or feminine a manner as he or she pleases, then the male-to-female transsexual's preference for women's clothing will not generate complaints.
The punitive events likely to confront the transsexual at work, in other words, result from the very essentialism - the view that "girls are girls and men are men" articulated by the Archie Bunker character in "All In the Family"- that transsexuals may uncritically adopt.