Sex, Lies, and Gender | Video | Intersex Soldier
BEHIND THE SCENES
DR. TIGER HOWARD DEVORE, Psychologist/Certified Sex Therapist
I have been working with patients who are "gender different” for over 25 years. The term “Gender” expresses how a person feels they are masculine or feminine, regardless of whether they are male or female. Western society, particularly in the USA, has some strict boundaries about variance in gender expression being congruent with sex of birth. So effeminate men and masculine women can only go so far before others notice and they become targets. Before they are questioned or criticized, called names, or killed for how uncomfortable their way of being makes others feel.
I, and others like me, are working so there will be a greater acceptance of people who use clothing, gesture, body movement, color, vocal style, body shape, body hair, and accessories as an expression of their gender, be that masculine or feminine. So people will learn to love the overweight woman in the dirty t-shirt and jeans wearing work boots as much as the slender man with the long hair in the bright colored blouse and the floral print pants. People want to believe this is about being "gay" and "straight" but its not; its about gender and gender expression.
Explorer | Sex, Lies, and Gender | Video | Intersex Soldier
National Geographic Channel – 2010
Explorer | Sex, Lies, and Gender | Behind the Scenes | Intersex Soldier
National Geographic Channel – 2010
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