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12-28-2008 #1
Why are there so many transgender people?
In 1959, in his seminal paper "Homage to Santa Rosalia," G. E. Hutchinson asked, Why are there so many kinds of organisms? This paper focused attention on problems of species diversity and community organization.
Here he observes two species of waterbugs living in the same pond in a cave at the Shrine of Saint Rosalia on Monte Pellegrino, Sicily, and asks, "Why are there so many kinds of animals?"
The scientific significance of the paper is undeniable. Hutchinson extends the conception of niche that he first presented at a Cold Spring Harbor symposium in the subtly named paper titled, "Concluding Remarks". Hutchinson's conception of niche came to be known as Hutchinsonian (or realized) niche as opposed to the Eltonian (or fundamental) niche. Arguably Santa Rosalia is the origins of the study of biodiversity. In fact, Santa Rosalia has become shorthand for the basic question of species numbers. Although many of the concepts Hutchinson wrote about did not begin with him, he might be credited with bringing order to the discipline by shifting focus to the central role of energy in food chains, available habitat, community stability and environmental grain, and how all this relates to the maintenance of biodiversity.
Hutchinson, G. E. (1959). Homage to santa rosalia or why are there so many kinds of animals? The American Naturalist 93 (870), 145-159.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sra...ntaRosalia.pdf
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My question, now and very respectfully, is: why are there so many transgender people?
Please reply nicely.
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12-28-2008 #2
Apparently nature gets it wrong quite often.
Insert funny quote here
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12-29-2008 #3
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12-29-2008 #4
Define "so many"? What actual facts are you basing your question on?
Just because you don't know about it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist: http://www.hungangels.com/board/view...=asc&start=158
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12-29-2008 #5
Re: Why are there so many transgender people?
Originally Posted by dbev
Anytime you group TV's and TS's together, you're going to have a population figure that is skewed larger. There are far more TV's than TS's out there IMHO.
As to why, well thats harder to answer. TV is generally considered a fetish. Why do people have any given fetish? You'd have to figure that out first before you could address why there are so many TV's.
And maybe its easier to withdraw from life
With all of its misery and wretched lies
If we're dead when tomorrow's gone
The Big Machine will just move on
Still we cling afraid we'll fall
Clinging like the memory which haunts us all
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12-29-2008 #6
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/genderm...andgender.html
What is the difference between sex and gender?
Sex = male and female
Gender = masculine and feminine
So in essence:
Sex refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs.
Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine.
So while your sex as male or female is a biological fact that is the same in any culture, what that sex means in terms of your gender role as a 'man' or a 'woman' in society can be quite different cross culturally. These 'gender roles' have an impact on the health of the individual.
In sociological terms 'gender role' refers to the characteristics and behaviours that different cultures attribute to the sexes. What it means to be a 'real man' in any culture requires male sex plus what our various cultures define as masculine characteristics and behaviours, likewise a 'real woman' needs female sex and feminine characteristics. To summarise:
'man' = male sex+ masculine social role
(a 'real man', 'masculine' or 'manly')
'woman' = female sex + feminine social role
(a 'real woman', 'feminine' or 'womanly')
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Having saying that, a person taking hormones because s/he was born in the wrong body and want to readjust his/her appearance to his/her feelings is both a transsexual and a transgender or not?
A boy dressing like a girl, such as a scene/emo boy, is a transgender?
Then, getting back to the original question: given the number of people born in masculine bodies but feeling like a woman that I see in this forum, in real life the amount of this "erroneus assignations" should be very large.
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12-29-2008 #7
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why are there so many idiots out there?
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12-30-2008 #8
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Originally Posted by braveman
but if the shoe fits.....
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12-30-2008 #9Originally Posted by tsntx
"You can pick your friends & you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on your saddle."
~ Kinky Friedman ~
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12-30-2008 #10
Re: Why are there so many transgender people?
Originally Posted by SarahG
Just because you don't know about it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist: http://www.hungangels.com/board/view...=asc&start=158