The Trans Community [View all]

By Jeff Ross, Assoc. Prof. of Psychology (focusing on lifespan development and human sexuality), South Plains College

Most of the debate, regarding the civil rights of the LGBT community has focused on the lesbian and gay population, while neglecting the bi-sexual and transgender population. I think that this comes from a tendency for many to see things like sexual orientation and gender identification in black and white, all or nothing terms.

As pretty much anything having to do with humans, this view excludes a large portion of the reality of sexual orientation and gender identification.

The traditional view of sexual orientation has been, “you’re either AC or DC” and the traditional view of sex/gender was “it’s a boy or a girl, and should behave as such”. In the past, and still, violations of those perceptions have been met with rejection and intolerance, even by a number of the LG community.

The reality is that chromosomal sex (CS), gender identity (GI), and sexual orientation (SO) are all aspects of the great diversity of human (and other animal) sexuality.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/dr-brian-carr/2013-05-25/trans-community