Sex and Society
Though viewed as a medical spectacle, hermaphrodites are more readily accepted into society than transsexuals. Those born with mixed genitalia are regarded as having been born that way, destined by God to occupy a place on the fringes of mainstream society. However, transsexuals are viewed in a harsher light, as critics claim that it is their choice to live as a member of the opposite gender, when they were born with perfectly “normal” (Peiss 375) apparatuses. The borders between transsexuals and homosexuals blur, as traditionalists attempt to “cure” those “patients who actually want to be normal” (Ibid.).
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Tags: Middlesex; transsexuals
