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2001 Article *123 THE GENDER CASTE SYSTEM: IDENTITY, PRIVACY, AND HETERONORMATIVITY. Jillian Todd Weiss [FNa1] I. Transsexuality and the Caste System. A. The Existence of the Caste System The heterosexual norm is the idea that people are, by virtue of heredity and biology, exclusively and aggressively heterosexual: males are masculine men, and are attracted only to feminine women. ................
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