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Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Foreword Reviews' 18th Annual INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Psychology Few topics are more contested today than gender identity. In the fog of the culture war, complex issues like gender dysphoria are reduced to slogans and sound bites. And while the war rages over language, institutions and political allegiances, transgender individuals are the ones who end up being the casualties. Mark...

The mention of eunuchs in this context has been thought by some authors to be speaking of a “third sex” or perhaps relevant to gender dysphoria. I can understand the desire to see in this passage something that would help us understand these issues better; however, we have no evidence that eunuchs were either a different gender or gender dysphoric. Adrian Thatcher asserts that the eunuchs who were “born that way” refers to “people who are born with ambiguous genitalia.”14 That seems plausible; others
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