Since we know very little about sex identity, and
since psychiatrists are committed to the propagation
of the cultural structure as it is, it would be premature
and not very intelligent to accept the psychiatric judgment that transsexuality is caused by faulty socialization.
More probably transsexuality is caused by a faulty society. Transsexuality can be defined as one particular formation of our general multisexuality which is unable to achieve its natural development because of extremely adverse social conditions.
There is no doubt that in the culture of male-female
discreteness, transsexuality is a disaster for the individual transsexual. Every transsexual, white, black, man, woman, rich, poor, is in a state of primary emergency
(see p. 185) as a transsexual. There are 3 crucial
points here. One, every transsexual has the right to
survival on his/her own terms. That means that every
transsexual is entitled to a sex-change operation,
and it should be provided by the community as one of
its functions. This is an emergency measure for an
emergency condition. Two, by changing our premises
about men and women, role-playing, and polarity, the
social situation of transsexuals will be transformed,
and transsexuals will be integrated into community, no
longer persecuted and despised. Three, community
built on androgynous identity will mean the end of
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transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will
be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon o f transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes o f sexual identity and behavior.
Transvestism
T h e first time I put on the black silk
panties I got a hardon right away.
Julian Beck
Transvestism is costuming which violates gender
imperatives. Transvestism is generally a sexually
charged act: the visible, public violation o f sex role is
erotic, exciting, dangerous. It is a kind o f erotic civil
disobedience, and that is precisely its value. Costuming
is part o f the strategy and process o f role destruction.
We see, for instance, that as women reject the female
role, they adopt “male” clothing. As sex roles dissolve,
the particular erotic content o f transvestism dissolves.
Bestiality
[In the Middle Ages] copulation with a
Jew was regarded as a form o f bestiality,
and incurred the same penances.
G. Rattray-Taylor,
Primary bestiality (fucking between people and
other animals) is found in all nonindustrial societies.
Secondary bestiality (generalized erotic relationships
