I realize this is not entirely the point of the post, but thank you for introducing me to Ed Zephyr: I had never heard of them, but they interview interestingly and they mention Eric Portman! They are quite right that his sexuality informed his acting in resonant and sometimes difficult ways; it's one of the reasons I am delighted that the Archers got him as Colpeper instead of Roger Livesey. Usually I have to explain him to people. So I am automatically inclined to like Zephyr for knowing about him already and the fact that I enoyed the rest of the interview is a nice bonus.
(For that matter I've never had my chromosomes tested - have you, dear reader?)
Nope. I've wanted to for years, but it doesn't seem to be something that doctors will do just for fun.
But it left me wondering why it is that in many people's minds chromosomes trump gender identity; trump socialisation; trump hormones; trump phenotype.
I genuinely don't know. If your chromosomes are a clear-cut binary, that's nice, but other than medical information I'm not sure what else that tells you.
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Date: 2016-03-18 08:51 pm (UTC)I realize this is not entirely the point of the post, but thank you for introducing me to Ed Zephyr: I had never heard of them, but they interview interestingly and they mention Eric Portman! They are quite right that his sexuality informed his acting in resonant and sometimes difficult ways; it's one of the reasons I am delighted that the Archers got him as Colpeper instead of Roger Livesey. Usually I have to explain him to people. So I am automatically inclined to like Zephyr for knowing about him already and the fact that I enoyed the rest of the interview is a nice bonus.
(For that matter I've never had my chromosomes tested - have you, dear reader?)
Nope. I've wanted to for years, but it doesn't seem to be something that doctors will do just for fun.
But it left me wondering why it is that in many people's minds chromosomes trump gender identity; trump socialisation; trump hormones; trump phenotype.
I genuinely don't know. If your chromosomes are a clear-cut binary, that's nice, but other than medical information I'm not sure what else that tells you.