- Title
- Same-sex sexuality and childhood gender non-conformity : A spurious connection
- Creator
- Gottschalk, Lorene
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/35289
- Identifier
- vital:358
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/0958923032000067808
- Identifier
- ISSN:0958-9236
- Abstract
- Biological and hormonal theories of same-sex sexuality are usually based upon an assumption of congenital gender inversion, that is, that a lesbian is in some way masculinised and a gay man in some way feminised. Commonly, and also because of the assumption of biology, such evidence of gender inversion is sought in childhood. In this paper I present a challenge to the theory that childhood gender non-conformity is associated with homosexuality, noting in particular that discussions of gender non-conformity and 'homosexuality' do not attempt to explain the experiences of heterosexual women. By demonstrating that childhood gender non-conformity has been wrongly associated with same-sex sexuality and posing an alternative explanation for childhood gender non-conformity, it is my intention to present a challenge to the theory that same-sex sexuality is related to congenital gender inversion.; C1
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Relation
- Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 12, no. 1 (Mar 2003), p. 35-50
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor & Francis
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1699 Other Studies In Human Society; Orientation; Homosexuality; Identity; Behaviour
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