Word: genderism
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Ultimately, Kahn-Leavitt's open-ended interpretation of "A Midwife's Tale" jives well with Ulrich's own goals for her work: "to take something that seemingly tells us nothing and interpret it and put it together so that we can implement it to try to understand something about gender and culture...
...term gender identity includes "transgendered," transsexual, cross-dressers and hermaphordites...
...what of sports teams? Should a man who claims to have had a gender change of heart the day before the tennis tournament be entitled to play on the women's team? If Harvard, in the spirit of iconoclasm, decides to interfere with the healthy separation which allows athletes of each sex to compete against members of their same sex, would this be acceptable to other NCAA-affiliated universities...
Radcliffe, I have discovered, is itself "transgendered" in some sense. Once Harvard's sister institution, its relationship to Harvard and its "gender," so to speak, is now no longer so clearly defined. Deprived of Radcliffe's sisterly love, we are likewise deprived of its fraternity, for, while it cannot be considered a "sister" institution, it can neither be considered a "brother" institution, catering exclusively as it does, only to Harvard females. Radcliffe finds itself, therefore, in the ambiguous and uncomfortable noman's (or no-woman's) land of transgendered confusion...
...transgendered people see the phrase 'gender identity' in writing, they know that it's a place where they can be safe," he says...