The Inquiry - Do We Have Enough Genders?
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Gender identity is considered more fluid than ever because of the success of the trans movement. But most trans people, just like everyone else, still identify as either a man or a women. For those who feel they are neither – or both – the male/female distinction does not fit. And for the one in 2000 who are born with indeterminate sex, finding a place in this binary world can be damaging.
We hear from Dr Imran Mushtaq, who works with intersex children at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London; bi-gender vlogger Brin Convenient; Tamara Adrian, Venezuela’s first transgender congresswomen (who wants gender erased from official forms); and the writer Mark Gevisser.
This programme is part of the World Service Identity Season.
(Photo: Transgender transsexual concept. Credit: Thinkstock by Getty Images)
Published on Wednesday, 13th April 2016.
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