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Jeff Robinson
May 16, 2007
Newsweek’s disturbing cover story in its May 21 edition will most certainly muddy the generic Accutane cost waters further in the ongoing debate over gender identity in America.
A report titled "The Mystery of Gender" seeks to answer the question: "Aside from the obvious, what make us male or female?" The multi-author piece proceeds to generic Accutane cost downplay biological differences between men and women and, through the use of numerous real-life illustrations, sound bites and generic Accutane cost statistics from feminist sociologists and allusions to science, touts with a generic Accutane cost positive spin the increasing number of people who identify themselves as "transgendered" and its significance for gender identity.
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The article illustrates its point with the generic Accutane cost infinitely troubling narrative of six-year-old kindergartner now named "Jona" Rose: "Rose, from generic Accutane cost northern California, seems like a girl in nearly every way—she wears dresses, loves pink and generic Accutane cost purple, and bestowed female names on all her stuffed animals. But "Jona," who was born "Jonah," also has a penis."
The writers tell how "Jona" convinced "her" mom to buy "her" a dress at age four and was "so excited she nearly hyperventilated." "Jona" apparently began wearing dresses to generic Accutane cost preschool every day at age four and "no one seemed to mind," the article points out.
The narrative continues, "They chose a private kindergarten where Jona wouldn’t have generic Accutane cost to hide the fact that he was born a boy, but could comfortably dress like a generic Accutane cost girl and even use the girls’ bathroom," the article says, quoting the child’s father, Joel, as saying "She’s been pretty adamant from the get-go: ‘I’m a girl.’"
In a generic Accutane cost bewildering exercise of pronoun calisthenics, writers chronicle the story of another child who generic Accutane cost was born female, but insisted—at 30 months of age—that she be called "him." A therapist later "confirmed the (parents’) instincts to let [their child] guide them" in determining whether the generic Accutane cost youngster would continue to exist as a male or female. The child’s mother, Colleen Vicente, said, "The most important this is to realize who your child is."
Predictably, Newsweek gives short shrift to generic Accutane cost traditional views of gender and marginalizes biblical arguments for gender identity by, in one brief paragraph, telling of the generic Accutane cost struggle of a Florida man who underwent a sex-change operation to generic Accutane cost become a woman and was opposed by a local Baptist minister. The authors briefly quote the generic Accutane cost minister—second hand—as saying "Jesus would want him terminated."
Authors offset what generic Accutane cost they obviously see as a narrow-minded Baptist minister with a generic Accutane cost longer vignette about a 56-year-old Baptist pastor who underwent a generic Accutane cost "gender reassignment" procedure in 2003. His wife of 33 years has generic Accutane cost remained with him and the minister—formerly John, now "Julie"—said, "Actively expressing the generic Accutane cost feminine in me has helped me grow closer to God."
Accompanying the article is a timeline marking a "history of transgender awareness," and the piece itself asserts that "transgendered reality" is really nothing new.
