Galileo's Middle Finger (52 page)

sex reassignment surgery,
see
sex-change intervention

sexism,
4
–
6
,
127

sexologists,
63
,
68
,
103
,
106

sexual abuse,
see
childhood sexual abuse; rape

sexual arousal,
see
sexuality, arousal of

sexual coercion,
107
–
20

biological bases of,
116
,
117

evolution and,
123

male reproductive success and,
116

see also
childhood sexual abuse; rape

sexual identity,
64
–
65
,
66
–
67

brain and,
54
,
55
,
225
,
266
,
268

importance of culture to,
59
–
60

orientation of,
5
–
11
,
56
,
59
,
60
,
62
–
65
,
69
,
71
–
72
,
80
,
101
–
2
,
193

see also gender

sexuality

anthropological accounts of,
60
–
61
,
151
–
52
,
152
–
55

arousal patterns as indicators of,
96
,
120
,
225
,
269
–
70

eroticism and,
9
,
24
,
56
,
58
–
59
,
59
–
60
,
61
,
66
,
74
,
76
,
79
,
224
–
26
,
268

medical interventions motivated by understandings of,
32
,
41
,
224
–
26
,
239

paraphilic,
63

surgery causing damaged sensations of,
19
,
26
,
28
,
30
,
47
,
221

see also
childhood sexual abuse; intersex; rape; sex; sexual coercion; sexual identity; transgender

sex work,
see
prostitution

Shankman, Paul,
154
–
56

Sher, Ken,
108
,
109
–
10
,
112
–
15

Silverstein, Jeffrey,
206
–
7

social change,
20
–
21
,
267

see also
transgender, social acceptance of people who are

socialism,
254

social justice,
11
,
43
,
53
,
136
–
37
,
188
,
221

social networks,
269

social order,
24
,
25

Society for Visual Anthropology,
143

sociobiology,
108
,
140
,
150
,
151
,
153
,
179
,
230
–
31

Socrates,
256

Solidarity movement,
254

Sousa, Aron (author’s husband),
29
–
31
,
33
,
34
,
36
,
48
,
52
,
161
–
62
,
205
,
215
,
229
–
30
,
235

Soviet Union,
3
,
155
,
254

Sponsel, Leslie,
142
–
45
,
149
,
163

Starry Messenger, The
(Galileo),
14

stem-cell therapy,
272

steroids,
187
–
88
,
190
,
196
,
204

Stone, Penny,
198
,
200
–
201

Stone, Sheila,
198

Strachan, David Cameron,
31
,
48

suicide,
20

teenage,
38
–
39

Sullivan, Bonnie (Brian),
see
Laurent, Bo

Summers, Larry,
108

support groups,
187
,
203

intersex,
22
,
33
,
50
,
263

Supreme Court, California,
234

Supreme Court, U.S.,
133
–
34

surgery,
24
,
81

“addiction” to,
77

avoidance of,
50
,
51

clitoral,
7
,
30
,
31
,
33
,
34
,
38
,
40
,
43
–
45
,
47
,
192
,
285

deaths from,
42

penile,
7
,
25
,
34
,
36
–
37

tragic accidents in,
34

see also
sex-change interventions

Sweden,
200
,
203
,
205
,
224
,
250
–
52

Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics,
264

Tamar-Mattis, Anne,
221
–
22
,
224
,
226
,
229
–
30
,
252

Taus, Nicole (Jane Doe),
233
–
34

telescopes,
12
,
14
–
15
,
16
,
138

testicles,
191

herniated,
24

undescended,
33
,
40
,
283

in women,
25
,
26
,
31
–
32
,
33
,
40
,
263
,
283

testosterone,
31
,
191

thalidomide,
198
–
99
,
204
,
227

Thornhill, Randy,
115
–
20
,
122
–
26
,
180
,
183

see also Natural History of Rape, A

Tierney, Patrick,
141
–
45
,
148
,
149
,
157
–
68
,
171
–
72
,
174
–
77
,
184
,
214
,
230
,
271

arrest of,
165

fake identity of,
165
,
166

publications of,
141
–
43
,
145
,
147
,
148
,
150
,
157
–
67
,
175
–
76
,
181
,
295

Time,
119
,
223
,
224
,
226
,
250
,
252

tomboys,
226
,
313

Tooby, John,
150
,
181

Toronto Globe and Mail,
119

transgender,
8
–
9
,
25
,
42
,
53
–
68
,
195
,
266
–
69

“born in the wrong body” narrative of,
54
,
55
,
56
,
66
,
266

cultural aspects of,
59
,
61
,
266
–
67

de-emphasis of eroticism in discussions of,
63
–
4
,
65

definition of,
8
–
9
,
53

hostility toward and abuse of people who are,
55
,
61
,
63
,
64
–
65
,
87
,
88
,
127
,
267

intersex vs.,
53
–
54

murder and bashing of people who are,
65
;
see also
transgender, hostility and abuse of people who are

political and human rights of,
54
,
55
,
60
–
61
,
62
,
63
,
65
,
69
,
70
,
73
,
86
,
136
,
265
,
266
–
67
,
269

popular understanding of,
60

social acceptance of people who are,
54
,
60
–
61
,
62
,
63
,
65
,
83
,
266
,
267
,
268
–
69

two-type theory of male-to-female,
55
–
63
,
65
–
66
,
67
,
94
,
96
,
101
,
267
–
68

see also
sex-change interventions

transgender activism,
see
activism, transgender

transition of gender/sex,
see
sex-change interventions; transgender

transkids,
57
–
59
,
61
–
63
,
69
–
70
,
102
,
266
–
67

transphobia,
70
,
98
,
127

see also
transgender, hostility toward and abuse of people who are

Transsexual Empire, The
(Raymond),
64

transsexualism,
see
sex-change interventions; transgender

Trashing of Margaret Mead, The: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
(Shankman),
154
–
55

Traverse City, Mich.,
139
,
184

Triea, Kiira,
34
,
101
–
3

Tromovitch, Philip,
110
–
11

truth,
259

advocacy vs.,
136
–
39
,
141
,
153
,
183
,
262

concealment of,
22
,
26
,
28
,
30
–
32
,
263
–
64

justice and,
261
–
62

quest for,
256
,
261
–
62

Turner, Terence,
142
–
45
,
147
–
49
,
162
–
63
,
168
,
176
,
178
–
79
,
184
–
85

Turner, Trudy,
176
,
183

21
–Hydroxylase Deficiency,
206
–
7

twins,
37
,
71
–
72

conjoined and separated,
41
–
42
,
43
,
46
,
287

identical,
71

Uffizi art galleries,
12
,
17
–
18

bombing of,
16

“Unethical Ethicist, An” (Borrell),
219
–
20

United Nations (UN),
265

United States,
22
,
265
–
66

Founding Fathers of,
16
,
133
,
260
–
61