I attended yesterdays lecture on Transgender and body modification. I never considered transgender as a form of body modification until this lecture. The term 'subculture' was only used once. The fact that transgendered and transsexual people live in subcultured societies would suggest that they are not made to feel welcome in the general society and therefore are still considered as 'bad' or 'deviant' in many societies. High profile cases such as Nadia from Big Brother and that little antiques boy who grew up and had the operation to become a woman in the Western World has made transgender more open and transparent. In other societies the fact that transgender is not made available to the general public suggests that there is an intolerance of transgendered people.
Also what I never considered as a form of body modification until this lecture was when babies are born and they have both male and female sex organs and the parents and doctors decide on surgery and therefore decide whether the child will grow up as a boy or girl.
Apologies if the following video clip is offensive but I have included it on the blog to show that sometimes the person who has had the operation and is now regarded as a transexual person regrets their decision and wants to revert to their original gender:-
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