Transcending The Trans Taboo: An Incomplete Journey Into Janet Mock’s Lonely Battles And Bedlam

Abstract

It is a common notion that the biologically designated sex remains the same until the death of a person. This would hold good to almost ninety per cent of the population around the world who are cisgendered or more commonly called heterosexuals. But; it is imperative to construct a third gender who feels that they have the so-called, the otherness to establish their stronghold. They have the feeling that there is something more to cisgender which needs to be unearthed where the biology of an individual does not determine his course of actions and behaviour in society and the need to change one’s biological and predetermined sex because the person is no longer comfortable with the way he was raised or viewed by the society. Janet Mock wanted to prove that it was normal for a being to behave otherwise after having been born as a male or a female. The dichotomy between sex and gender is still have to be reconsidered in the postmodern world that is full of multiplicities and pluralities. This is explored in this paper.