SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Sperm Donation, Surrogacy, Nuclear Family
19 Mar 2014
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Transsexual -> persons who may go to reconstructive surgery to change their biological sex to conform with their gender identity are more often known as transsexuals. Transgender- > their gender identity differs from the body they were born with. They can have a variety of sexual orientations. Mitchell is one of the only authors who resist these heteranormative ideologies. For lesbian women, choices about mothering are connected to (ben ari and. For gay fathers, choices about fathering are connected to (armesto and shapiro, 2011; Because they are gay, because they are gay dads. Parenting of gay individuals is tied up with how they connect to their parents generations. This means, my parents generation had diff ideas than mine, was not as open, this reluctance of seeing the new parenting pracists is because it is different (generartion gap). For the same reasons why straight women want to mother.
