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Overview
Background
Distinctions
Two ways to view gender
dysphoria
Ethical issues
Further thinking
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Background Assumptions
Sex has three meanings
Genetic (XY, XX, XXY, etc.)
Phenopytic (what you look like physically)
Social (how you are raised, how you present)
Gender has one (main) meaning: the social or
behavior aspects of sexual identity.
There is no 1:1 relationship between sex and
gender
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Background Assumptions
Sexual dimorphism is part of the mental
landscape in our culture.
First question when baby is born
“treatment” of intersex babies
As species go, we are not too dimorphic; variations within
the sexes are greater than the variations between them.
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Background Assumptions
There is a lot we don’t know about sexual and
gender development
How genotype is translated into phenotype
What hormone surges (in utero and at puberty) do; what
can go wrong
How people “feel” like women or men apart from social
conditioning
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Distinctions
Heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual describe
sexual attraction, grounded in biology but affected by
culture.
Medically speaking, these are not disorders.
Attraction is fluid and changing; most people think attraction
is established before birth.
DSM-III (1974)
Transvestite describes people who wear clothes of the
other gender. Motives differ.
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Catholic Teaching:
Sexual function has two purposes
Fun (aka “union”)
Babies (aka “procreation”)
Double effect
Good or morally neutral act
One effect intended, one foreseen
Bad effect is not a means to the good
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Transsexual/Transgender
terms refer to the same thing
gender dysphoria (DSM-IV)
Transgendered persons can self-identify as gay
or straight.
Some transgendered persons get married;
some engage in homosexual relationships with
members of their new sex.
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Gender Dysphoria: one view
Objectively disordered
Psychiatric in nature
You don’t do surgery for psychiatric
symptoms (unless you do; see Elliot)
Gender reassignment surgery mutilates and
results in sterilization, therefore it is wrong.
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Gender Dysphoria: other view
Biological in nature; hormone surge in utero
contributes to sexualization of fetus. Disruption
can “cause” GD.
Male and female brains differ; in some
respects, m->f brains look like female brains
and f->m brains look like male brains.
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GD: other view
If GD is biological, then surgical correction is
appropriate.
Other surgical corrections:
Strabismus
Cochlear implant
Aortic repair
Lasik surgery; septoplasty
Mutilation and sterilization are side effects.
(see Double Effect)
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Surgery is last step in transition
Transition includes
Psychological counseling
Living as “the other”
Hormone treatments to affect secondary sex
characteristics (hair growth, breast size, voice)
Plastic surgery to fashion new genital and urethral
equipment; mastectomy for f->m; breast
augmentation for m->f.*
*cause of action in Seton lawsuit
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Ethical Issues
Should surgeons be allowed to perform gender
reassignment surgery?
How do we take care of patients after surgery?
How do we take care of transgendered persons
in the hospital for other reasons?
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Allowing surgery for GRS
Patient must be part of program
Program must be rigorous
Surgeon must have experience; double
boarded in some cases (e.g., urology and
plastic surgery)
Treat these patients fairly
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Ethical Issues
Respect for transgendered persons means:
Using the form of address and pronoun he or she chooses. How the
person presents is the person’s social identity and should be
honored.
Protecting privacy, especially with regard to roommate if there is
one.
Private rooms are nice but not always possible.
No one taking care of the patient should be surprised; confidence
must be held carefully.
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Stoke your imagination
Stories of Native Americans
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Oscar-nominated film Transamerica
Carl Elliot, “A New Way to Be Mad.” Atlantic
Monthly, Dec 2000.
Call Me Malcolm (UCC: Office of LGBT Concerns
in Cleveland has copies)
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