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Although he had not been taking hormonal therapy to chemically facilitate his gender preference, he seems to have not needed it in order to project an alluring image of exceptional womanly beauty. Slim, graceful, and possessed of appealing physical symmetry and attractiveness by anyone’s standards, ‘Kailani’ could have easily fooled me (or anyone) into believing he was actually a biological female by birth, instead of a transgendered male. Not only that, but he was visually a particularly ‘beautiful’ transgender ‘woman’ at that. Shortly after he revealed his gender orientation, ‘Kailani’ shared a picture taken of him dressed to appear as his female ‘identity’ and I was able to appreciate the fact that although ‘Kailani’ was an unaltered man by birth, the nature of his ‘femaleness’ projected strongly. Rather than find myself perplexed to unexpectedly discover his gender transference, I was instead quite intrigued, since human life is an infinitely complex proposition and human sexuality is probably one of the most convoluted and complex psychosocial nuances of our species. ' Kailani' (as we shall identify him spuriously) was in his early 20s, of Japanese-American ancestry, and resident on the island of Maui. Perhaps it would help if I digressed for just the smallest bit here first, and mentioned that several years ago a person (a male person) I occasionally communicated with revealed to me, in the course of our communications, that he was a transgendered Asian-American. Thus, when a friend recently surprised me with an impromptu disclosure of a highly personal psychosocial lifestyle trait, I found myself immediately fascinated, rather than repulsed or put off by the nature of the startling information that had been shared with me.
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Having (been born in and) spent a significant period of time living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was so solidly enmeshed in a culture of permissive indulgence and acceptance of what we today call ‘cultural diversity’ that it has become a important cornerstone of my whole world view. I have always regarded myself as a broadly aware person, a status that would seem to be quite congruent with my complementary interests in history, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. Mindful of this fact and given the convoluted nature and aspirative spirit of self-actualisation that humanity’s unique biochemistry includes within the hidden potentials of each individual, it perfectly fits a far greater number of people we know than we might suspect. In that association, Bacon’s above quote is an absolute gem of observational wisdom. One of the very genuine concerns that cultivating a broad awareness within the human brain generates is that eventually, after a certain posture of open-mindedness is attained, nothing seemingly has the same potential to shake one’s sense of philosophical and moral balance as it might formerly have been able to while ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ is not an apt analogue to employ here, the effect is arguably parallel. “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in its proportion.” Hawaiian Sexuality and the Mahu Tradition. (The image shown is that of a Hawaiian transgender hula group, taken from the 2001 Kathryn Xian and Brent Anbe documentary on traditional Hawaiian sexual attitudes). 'Mahu' is a Hawaiian term that describes a man who has chosen to live as a woman and in the ancient (pre-missionary) culture, such individuals were respected and regarded as important members of the community. The ancient Hawaiians were not as tightly strung, in their graceful understanding that all human beings possess a complete Tao of male and female qualities within themselves. Transgendered and transexual individuals greatly disturb most God-fearing Christians, who believe that everything other than 'conventional' marital sex is a mortal sin. Hawaiian Sexuality and the 'Mahu' Tradition SIGNED BOOKS AUTHORS BOOKS AUDIOBOOKS eBOOKS STORIES ARTICLES POETRY BLOGS NEWS VIDEOS GOLD SUCCESS TESTIMONIALSįeatured Authors: Frank i Myles Saulibio, i William Pusey, i Ella Rydzewski, i Brian Kavanagh, i Kalikiano Kalei, i Laura Cavanaugh, i Vicki-Ann Bush, i William Martell, i Cheryl Meyer, iĪrticles > Hawaiian Sexuality and the 'Mahu' Traditionġ, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,