En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera

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Travestis in Latin America is said to be the third gender, but not everyone sees this way. Don Kulick depicts the gender world of gender imbalances in Brazilian cities and has two categories, "male" and "not male", women, homosexuals and travesty belong to the latter category I will. Two Spirit is a contemporary term used by some of the Native Americans, such as homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, and gender girls, to represent spiritual people in the area. These two spirits are neither sleep alone nor how they perceive it, they are different from the definition of mainstream Western sexuality and gender identity in Western Europe. Its role was recognized and confirmed by the elders of two spiritual communities.

In Latin American culture, travesti is assigned to men at birth and is a female, transgender, or a "female" gender identity. Travestis usually undergo hormonal therapy, use gender representation of women, including new names and men's synonyms, provide them if gender is assigned, occasionally use breast augmentation Travesti itself , Gender ("third gender"), mixed between men and women ("intergender / androgynes"), or the presence of male and female identity in individuals ("bigender"). They are described as completely different from transgender women who have the same gender identity as women at birth.

The term "gender show" first appeared in the book "Gender issue: feminism and destructive identity" published by Judith Butler of American philosopher and gender theorist in 1990. In gender matters, Butler began to criticize her idea of ​​gender obsolescence. According to Butler, this outdated concept is limited, as it claims to mark sex as the main social constraint of the binary. In examining gender, Butler introduced the recognition of nuance. So, she combined performance and gender concepts. In the first chapter of the text, Butler introduced the unity of the terms gender and performance and pointed out that "Gender is proved to be obvious", ie constitutes the claimed identity. Although it is not a practice that may be called the subject of an existing contract. In fact, this is a phenomenon that has always occurred and is copied. "