Gender is a social construct made up to force people into gender roles. “ the term “gender” refers to the cultural norms and expectations associated with biological sex.18 Under the binary system, gendered behavior is assumed to be at least partially the product of physiological forces, such as estrogen in women and testosterone in men.” (Ruff) gender being a social construct and not a having a hard definition makes it impossible for a person who doesn't identify with their assigned gender role have a medical condition.
Trans bodies are medicalized to, “enforcement of specific regulations and criteria for sex re-assignment, and the virtually absolute control which medical communities’ hold over transsexuals’ live.”(Barnes). To control and hold people who are transgender means that the medical community can keep them pathologized and in a binary. Each and every person who transition has a different transition story; weather they go on hormones, get surgery(s) or none at all. Since the medical community is trying to enforce the binary, they try to make each person who transitions, have the same transition into a binary sex. “While sterilization and genital surgery are geared to sustain a certain kind of dominant sexuality through reproduction, medical intervention requirements reflect the regulatory alignment of sex, gender, and gender performance, by insisting that the body be realigned to justify a reclassification” (Katri).
Works Cited
Barnes, Whitney. “The Medicalization of Transgenderism.” Trans Health, 6 Oct. 2012, \
Katri, Ido. “Sex Reclassification for Trans and Gender Nonconforming People: From the
Medicalized Body to the Privatized Self.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 17
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https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-
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