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Transgenderists: Products of Non-Normative Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Contemporary society is organized around the assumption that social arrangements will be fairly predictable and that individual behavior will be easily decodable. We expect that social interactions will conform to established norms and that people will act in accordance with salient statuses. Although the roles traditionally attached to some statuses, such as class, age, and gender, have become more flexible, sex has been an exception to this trend. All of social life, including personal relationships, organizational arrangements, and institutional policies and practices, is based on the assumption that sex is a dichotomous category determined by biology and that it is not subject to identity reconstruction or reinterpretation. Although one may be free to “gender bend,” social life is predicated on the premise that the gender one presents to society is congruent with one’s biological sex and that one’s identity as male or female also follows. However, as with all of social life, there are exceptions to rules and expectations, even when it comes to the sex of those around us. Some members of society, whether intentionally or not, present themselves as members of sex categories of which they are not biological members. Peo (1988, p. 57) refers “to the broad category of behavior where persons of one sex emulate or take on attributes of the other sex” as transgender behavior. While others (Devor, 1987, 1989) have examined females who socially present themselves as men, our focus is on males who present behavior patterns that are interpreted as indicators of womanhood.