TEDxTerryTalks - Alexander Cannon - 10/03/09

Talk Title: Gender Quest

Description: Alex discusses the influence of gender in his own life in this TEDx talk, describing both medical and social perspectives of gender in our daily lives and the impact and consequences these perspectives bring to every individual.

Links:
http://transhealth.vch.ca/
http://terry.ubc.ca/tedxterrytalks

Filmed by Craig Ross at TEDx Terry talks 2009 (October 3rd, 2009). Video edited by David Ng.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• transgender
• gender
• ubc
• neuroscience

[cazmas]

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humans need a major perception shift

i want to help

[twistedkatana1]

This is a great visual guide for people coming out to help answer questions without having to fling a textbook worth of info at somebody. We need more like these.

[Zeldaguy14]

Loved this video, made me feel confident that what I hope to do, HRT and perhaps SRS in the future isn't about consigning myself to being the other gender, it's about being me.

[Death2Evil]

@supasaul: Well, you're already adapting to his thinking, because you're referring to him as "him." Complexity is neither good nor bad in and of itself - just messy. If you ask me, simplicity is a step forward. People can be who they want and marry who they want.

[1234doawee]

@supasaul i think thats what he asking, why not change are perspective because it doesnt matter what gender when you're born but what you achieve in life. The nature of humans are continuously changing, i mean at one point in history alot of humans thought black and white people where different species! Nothing is ever set in a society and I see it as the more knowledge we acquire and pass on, the better changes our civilisation will make. :)

[supasaul]

i think his perspective with all respect is illogical. it really does matter because in our present society, things are much more complicated and the rules of society that see people as male and female are already set. If we adapt his thinking, then society would start to revolutionize and nature as we know it will change(weird). trasgender ppl just woulnt survive.