Re: Sex Change

From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 22 1997 - 14:44:49 MDT


"Kathryn Aegis" writes:
>Because gender-bending of any sort reveals the artificial
>constructions and learned behaviors that constitute the institution
>of gender, (however constructed in whatever society) it would
>therefore be in the best interest of all other societal institutions
>to constrain that behavior, to control who has access to it, to
>determine how much to marginalize or integrate it.

This sounds a bit conspiracy-theorist to me. How exactly would all
social institutions be hurt by behavior that helps people understand
how gender is constructed?

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/



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