In Europe particulary in Germany, Transgenderism is considered a psychological disorder which is medically known as Gender Identity Disorder that is why insurance companies pay for sexual reassignment surgery to correct gender disorder. There is no way to correct the mind, but there is a way to correct the body. Gender is a psychological concept, which goes on the understanding that it is a state of mind, yes it is mind set. Gender is commonly identified by sex but not all individuals are born with it. I remember a friend of mine saying, " Not all women are biologically assigned female at birth!"
More often than not we commonly associate trangenderism with homosexuality but these are two different terms or concept. A theoretically and psychologically homosexual man is a man who does not wish to change his gender, he finds it totally inoder, he just has sexual preference for men.
In the sociology of absence in gender studies, we assume absence of transgendered people by only acknowledging men and women. But the society where we live in is varied and dynamic.
We fail to realize that the society we live in are not only composed of men and women but people of different sexual orientations.
Great conquerors, historians, performers and the like were considered queer and different. Most of them even experienced persecution and harrassment. This is because the socially "normal society" as they claim to be consider this as a threat to social order and norm.
Why would a macho Filipino man beat his son who revealed his real sexual orientation? Because he does not tolerate deviation, because the society does not tolerate deviation.
The term "homophobia" comes from two latin words which means "homo" the same, and "phobia" fear. We only fear something which poses danger on us or we only fear something or somebody who is greater than us.
Macho men are homophobic because homosexuals pose a great threat to their manhood.
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