The Riddle of Gender: Science Activism and Transgender Rights

About this book

When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angleshistorical sociological psychological medicalRudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new that changing ones gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years and that gender identity like sexual orientation appears to be inborn not learned though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain. Informed not only by meticulous research but also by the authors interviews with prominent members of the transgender community The Riddle of Gender is a sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man a woman and a human being. From the Trade Paperback edition.