美国大学开始认可第三性别.doc

Rocko Gieselman looked like any other undergraduate at the University of Vermont but perhaps a little prettier, with pale freckles dancing across porcelain skin and bright blue eyes amplifying a broad smile. Black bra straps poked out from a faded black tank top emblazoned with the logo of the indie band Rubblebucket; a silver necklace with an anchor dangled over ample décolletage. 洛可·吉梭曼(Rocko Gieselman)看上去跟佛蒙特大学的其他学生没什么差别，或许只是更漂亮了几分：淡淡的雀斑在白瓷一般的肌肤上轻轻跳跃，明亮的蓝眼睛放大了满脸的盈盈笑意。褪了色的黑色背心上饰有独立乐队Rubblebucket的标识，肩部伸出两根黑色的胸衣吊带；银制项链的下方挂着一枚吊坠，在背心宽敞的领口上方晃来晃去。 Gieselman, a 21-year-old senior majoring in gender studies, was chatting cheerfully from a futon, legs tucked sideways, knees forward. In the tidy, poster-filled apartment that Gieselman shares with a roommate near campus, we were discussing the dating landscape. Gieselman, who came out in seventh grade, blushed and smiled shyly: “My partner was born female, feels female. The partners I’m attracted to are usually feminine people.” 吉梭曼，一名主修性别研究的21岁学生，正双腿分开、跪坐在蒲团上，与我愉快地聊着天。这间整洁并贴满了海报的公寓位于校园附近，由吉梭曼和一名室友共同居住，我们正在这里讨论约会方面的话题。在七年级时便已出柜的吉梭曼，脸颊微微泛红，带着害羞的微笑说道：“我的上一名伴侣生理性别为女性，心理性别也是女性。我现在交往的伴侣通常都是女性。” Gieselman, too, was born female, has a gentle disposition, and certainly appears feminine (save for a K. D. Lang cut). But Gieselman self-identifies not as a gay woman but as transgender. Unlike men and women who experience a mismatch between their bodies and their gender identities and take steps to align them, Gieselman accepts having a womanly body, and uses the term — along with “genderqueer” — to mean something else: a distinct third gender. 吉梭曼的生理性别同为女性，性情温和，外表也呈现出明显的女性特征（除了与女同歌手凯蒂莲[K·D·Lang]同样的发型之外）。但是吉梭曼并不将自己界定为女同性恋，而是一名跨性别者(transgender)。不同于那些对自己的生理性别和心理性别表现出认知差异，并极力想要将两者统一起来的男性和女性，吉梭曼接受自己拥有一具女性躯体的事实，并使用“跨性别者”这一名词——还有“性别酷儿”(genderqueer)——来指代新的性别身份：一种有别于男女之分的“第三性”。 While a freshman at Burlington High School, Gieselman began feeling that the label “girl,” even “lesbian,” didn’t fit. “Every time someone u