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TechnoratiCP: And regarding transgenderism?
Gagnon: Transgenderism simply accelerates that crisis by in effect a person totally denying their maleness or femaleness. The homosexual half denies it. In the case for transgendered person, they’ve essentially conceived of themselves as entirely other than what they are and that’s an even greater radicalizing or dishonoring of the sexual self because of the total denial of their maleness or femaleness.
CP: Would you say that a person with gender identity disorder would be going through the same struggles as someone with homosexual attraction?
Gagnon: There’s some degree of complexity in answering that. But the short answer would be ‘yes, but….’ The way in which they’re similar is that they’re both struggling with their sexual identity. And it’s simply a more radical struggle in the case of somebody moving towards transgenderism. … As children, persons who identify as homosexual, more likely than not, experienced a high level of gender non-conformity. That is, they weren’t the stereotypical male if male or stereotypical female if female. That person struggles with his sexual identity as a child. Am I really male? And he perceives fellow males as being significantly different from him. And at a certain point in time, if he hasn’t validated for himself his maleness … then that felt need to have his identity as a male validated and to have his perceived deficiencies as a male be filled can become sexualized so that he sees the remedy to his deficiency in maleness as merging with another male.
A man having sex with a man is really making a statement that he perceives himself as only half male and that dishonors the maleness that God has stamped on his being. It degrades it. It devalues it. It says something isn’t all there that God has imprinted as being all there, for the most part.
They’re not in need of structural supplementation as a male. They have a need for structural affirmation – that is affirmation of their structure as a male. They don’t need to supplement it by merging with another male. By sexualizing it, they’re only regularizing the misperception of themselves as half male when they ought to rather be affirming their maleness through intimate relationships with other males that are non-sexual.
So in a sense, the transgendered person is simply taking that up a notch.
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