Questioning Gender and Sexual Identity: Dynamic Links Over Time

Diamond, Lisa M.; Butterworth, Molly R.

doi:10.1007/s11199-008-9425-3

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“…I have so far only addressed gender and sex and will now briefly introduce my sexuality. Gender and gender identity operate as a basis for sexual attraction (Diamond and Butterworth 2008) and orientation (Tate, 2012) and may help ground the gender discriminatory practices of some (Wood andEagly, 2009. See Tate andYoussef, 2014 for a discussion about these interconnections).…”

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This girl’s life: An autoethnography

O’Shea¹

2017

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This essay seeks to add to a growing awareness of transgender lives and narratives in management and organisational studies. It presents an often visceral and emotive autoethnographical account of the experience of being a non-binary transsexual in the United Kingdom to question whether it is possible to think gender without invoking the heterosexual matrix and being held to account by it. It also asks what may need to be done so that the abject and marginalised in society may have liveable lives rather than an otherwise unliveable life resulting from that matrix. It argues that transgender is often conflated in management research theoretically as queer or queer's evil twin where the latter concept reduces trans lives to rigid, polarised positions in the matrix and stereotypes. The essay concludes by asking an open question, how we may organise so as to make lives liveable?

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This girl’s life: An autoethnography

O’Shea¹

2017

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“…In others, some distress may remain, resulting in a life-long search for new adaptations. In again others, the behaviors may be an expression of persisting gender variant identities, but not necessarily complete cross-gender identities (e.g., Diamond & Butterworth, 2008;Lee, 2001). …”

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“…In the discussion on homosexuality (of individuals without GID), the stability or instability of sexual orientation has been a matter of debate. Recently, prospective studies in non-transsexual samples of women suggest that there is considerable fluidity in sexual orientation, especially for women (Diamond, 2000;Diamond & Butterworth, 2008). In the 1990s, the question arose if the preferences for the gender of sex partners would also change in the course of hormonal and surgical treatment (e.g., Daskalos, 1998;Lawrence, 1999Lawrence, , 2005.…”

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The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescents and Adults

2009

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Apart from some general issues related to the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) diagnosis, such as whether it should stay in the DSM-V or not, a number of problems specifically relate to the current criteria of the GID diagnosis for adolescents and adults. These problems concern the confusion caused by similarities and differences of the terms transsexualism and GID, the inability of the current criteria to capture the whole spectrum of gender variance phenomena, the potential risk of unnecessary physically invasive examinations to rule out intersex conditions (disorders of sex development), the necessity of the D criterion (distress and impairment), and the fact that the diagnosis still applies to those who already had hormonal and surgical treatment. If the diagnosis should not be deleted from the DSM, most of the criticism could be addressed in the DSM-V if the diagnosis would be renamed, the criteria would be adjusted in wording, and made more stringent. However, this would imply that the diagnosis would still be dichotomous and similar to earlier DSM versions. Another option is to follow a more dimensional approach, allowing for different degrees of gender dysphoria depending on the number of indicators. Considering the strong resistance against sexuality related specifiers, and the relative difficulty assessing sexual orientation in individuals pursuing hormonal and surgical interventions to change physical sex characteristics, it should be investigated whether other potentially relevant specifiers (e.g., onset age) are more appropriate.

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“…As we noted in our article, studies have shown considerable fluidity in the development and expression of sexual behavior and orientation over time, particularly in young women (Diamond, 2005(Diamond, , 2007(Diamond, , 2008Diamond & Butterworth, 2008). The current comparison of 17-year-olds in the 6th and 7th cycles of the NSFG suggests that further exploration of factors that may be contributing to changing patterns of same-sex sexual behavior in American adolescents is warranted.…”

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