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Hybrid Masculinity Of the three theories of masculinity described in this paper hybrid masculinity appears to best align with critiques of transgender experiences described at the beginning of this paper: a male-originating gendered-appropriation, or those “gender projects that incorporate ‘bits and pieces…of marginalized and subordinated masculinities and at times, femininities” (Bridges 60) (emphasis mine). For example, similar to Bridges’ claim that some (hegemonic) heterosexual men will claim those “(s)exual aesthetics (that) refer to cultural and stylistic distinctions utilized to delineate symbolic boundaries between gay and straight cultures and individuals” (2014 62), critics of male-to-female transsexuals argue their gender identities are little more than a mimicking appropriation of cisgender women’s bodies and behaviors. …show more content…
In tracking the gender transition of nine male-to-female transsexuals, this research draws analogies to Van Gennep’s process of social-status change. For instance, there is a removal/separation from the prior status (or gender), time spent in a liminal stage during which time they undergo their ‘real life test) (95), and then finally a reintroduction into society via their new status (and, as some reported, leaving their transsexual status behind to now be a woman (100, 101). there is an effective. Gender transition, she argues, can be seen as analogous to Van Gennep’s tripartite process which describes social identity