Topic > The history of transgender - 728

“In the hegemonic discourse of contemporary Western society and according to science, popular wisdom and the media, the population is composed of two, and only two, sexes.” (Gagné & Richard, 63) During the childhood of transgender people, many of them tried to dress according to the gender they understood themselves to be, and would be corrected immediately and learned to behave “wrong”. After entering adulthood, most transgender people, when not exposed to other transgender people, enter a phase of "waiting for time." Consequences may vary. “For some, this has been a conscious process of waiting until the right time; for others it was unconscious because their transgender identity was deeply buried.” (Morgan & Stevens, 304) Another consequence of “Biding Time” is following the typical pattern of society: marrying a person of