Bird-Johnson Co., decided in 1994, the Superior Court of Massachusetts wrote in dicta that since "
transsexualism is not a recognized handicap," LeFleur's disability claim must fail.
Many courts describe GID and
transsexualism as extremely complex, rare, and difficult to diagnose.
It's not surprising that
transsexualism became a subject in films long before it had a name or a place in the cultural dialogue.
Female-to-male
transsexualism: Historical clinical and theoretical issues.
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But if my alleged
transsexualism is really fantastic and you refer me to surgery and I go through with it--if I am a man who incorrectly believes myself to be a transsexual woman and I am successful in my quest for surgery--I will probably be unhappy after the fact.
Perhaps not coincidentally, so did Del La Grace Volcano who, although more comfortable with the notion of 'gender ambiguity' than
transsexualism, transgender or intergender, asserted that 'at this point, living as a male is the only viable possibility'.
According to her definition,
transsexualism reinforces heteronormativity, while transgenderism challenges it.
As one of the first to emerge from the closet of
transsexualism in a shocked Republic, she soon became a vocal figurehead for the condition both sides of the Irish Sea -- an estimated 500 people want or have undergone sex change treatment in the Republic of Ireland and there are 400 in the same situation in Wales.
The next stage is to have the different governing bodies look at changing their rules, to consider all the facts involved with
transsexualism and what I've been through in regard to strength and performance.
transvestitism,
transsexualism, and roleplaying and sadomasochism) is misleading, as each of these fantasies reveals and operates on the continued presence of male dominance and female submission.