So I was talking to a friend the other day. I have in my home some tomato plants by a large window that my child is helping cultivate (and looking forward to harvesting!). I was talking about how my little one and I help pollinate the flowers by pretending to be bumblebees, using a q-tip. I mentioned that tomato plants have what biologists call "perfect" flowers, meaning that a single flower has both male (stamen) and female (pistil) parts. She commented on what a great metaphor that is.
That got me thinking: The way science, in the absence of cultural bias and social stigma, views it, if you cross gender boundaries within yourself, then you are PERFECT. That is the way truly unbiased science sees it: you are not disordered or ill, you are perfect.
