gender transposition

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gender transposition

Sexology The switching or crossing-over of attributes, expectancies, or stereotypes, of gender-identity/role from ♀ → ♂, or ♀ → ♂. See Gender crosscoding, Gender dysphoria, Sex change.

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Money, Lovemaps: Clinical Concepts of Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition in Childhood, Adolescence, and Maturity (New York: Irvington Publishers, 1986).

Compulsive sexual behavior: what to call it, how to treat it?

He stresses that in order to conciliate them and resolve the inner conflict, "the amorous subject gains access to the desiring object" by a "desexualisation of the woman," a gender transposition process--to use Kritzman's own term, a partial erasure--that "keeps the desire alive but extinguishes the anxiety associated with sexual difference" (159).