SOSC 1920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Norm, Christine Jorgensen, Ontario Health Insurance Plan
12 Apr 2014
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Ex: transsexual, transgender, queer: each category has a number of identities within them, trans also includes people that are cross dresses or drag queens, and/or lesbians, refers to everyone that falls outside of the normative gender frame work. Society created the alignment where the gender, sex and biology are aligned with sexuality and that"s considered normal. Any deviation from this is considered under the norm: transgender: someone that doesn"t use medical intervention. Term used to be used as an umbrella term, but now its people that cross dress and are drag queens. Not all trans identify as homosexuals, but some do: trans and homosexual have been constructed as sexual deviance. Most sexualities that are not normative are considered homosexual deviance. This kind of generalization is based on a dominant heterosexual norm. In mid-evils times deviant sexuality such as trans sexuality were considered not normal but were still excepted.
