I just started reading this wonderful and informative book (loaned to me by my mom!) by an esteemed Stanford biologist (who also happens to be transgendered) concerning the scientific reality and evolutionary underpinnings of gender diversity and sexuality, and the origins of many of the popularly held misconceptions and outright discriminatory beliefs and practices of the traditional intellectual and social establishments on these topics.
And she does it with easy-to-read writing and solid scientific methods! This is information all supporters of the GLBT community, especially those of us within the often shortchanged transgender community, should have in our arsenal. In my view it is crucial that as many of us as possible have this kind of knowledge and reasoned arguments for equal rights against the still evident biases out there. If nothing else, borrow the book from your local library or look at it in your local bookstore and read the 13 page introduction, which does a great job of laying the information out.
The book is titled "Evolution's Rainbow" by Joan Roughgarden.
Also, when I checked earlier today, you can get used copies of this book on Amazon for as low as $3!!!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520240731/qid=1112380714/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2556562-4808928?v=glance&s=books
Joan also wrote a great article that exposes the outright bigotry of Northwestern psychologist Michael Bailey and his almost universally reviled and discredited (outside some conservative christian circles that is) book about transgenderism called "The Man who would be Queen."
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Reviews/Psychology%20Perverted%20-%20by%20Joan%20Roughgarden.htm
Check 'em out!
-your friendly neighborhood librarian
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