The Serpent's Wisdom

It seemed to me the main concern was that transgenderism fetishizes gender by associating attributes that are more cultural than biological in origin with gender in some essential manner. I find this an interesting point to consider, but in the end, I think it misses the mark; it seems in actual experience that transgenderism shakes up gender associations more than it reinforces them. I think that when people can undergo surgery and other transformations and basically take on all characteristics associated with the "opposite" gender except for procreative functions, it makes people stop and wonder, "What is gender then?" We're not going to simply be able to discard all notions associated with gender overnight; the only way we can start to change them is to blur the lines. And I think that this opens the door to a kind of freedom in the exploration of personal identity that transcends gender concerns and that is beneficial to society as a whole, because it points to the fact that there is more to who we are than what society tells us we are born to be.