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3612700

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-8-28
pubmed:abstractText
The paper considers and rejects two arguments against the performance of sexual reassignment surgery. First, it is argued that the operation is not mutilating, but functionally enabling. Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not know (ordinarily) what it is. The paper is also intended to shed light on what our sexual identity is and on what matters in sexual relations.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0306-6800
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
86-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-20
pubmed:otherAbstract
KIE: Lavin discusses and rejects two arguments against the morality of sex reassignment surgery (SRS) for transsexuals. He answers those who claim that SRS is mutilating by arguing that it is enabling because it permits transsexuals to function as the sex they perceive themselves to be. Critics who say that SRS camouflages a person's real sex and deceives others are countered with Lavin's argument that one does not really know, but can only conjecture, what sex he or she is, and therefore cannot deliberately deceive others about it. In the course of his essay, Lavin discusses whether sex is biologically or psychologically determined, the moral insignificance of sex, and examples of disharmony between the genotype and phenotype of sex.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Mutilation, deception, and sex changes.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article