Peter Baker; He’s A Boy

I find labels to be inane and obtuse. People are many layers and noone fits into one category when it comes to sexuality or gender identity. I don’t care who you are or what you tell me. It’s a bane of being human.

But one thing is clear to me and the above statement does not apply to Peter Baker. To understand Peter Baker, one must understand terms they may not be familiar with.

There are many ignorant individuals out there using said terms in their reviews and criticisms of Sleepaway Camp. It is mind boggling. These people probably went to college. Yet they haven’t a clue as to what they are talking about.

For the sake of argument, study the definitions below, taken from Wikipedia.

A hermaphrodite is an organism having both male and female reproductive organs.

Transsexualism is a condition in which an individual identifies with a physical sex different from the one they were born with.

Transgender is the state of one’s “gender identity” (self-identification as woman, man, or neither) not matching one’s “assigned sex” (identification by others as male or female based on physical/genetic sex).

Transvestism (also called transvestitism) is the practice of cross-dressing, which is wearing the clothing of the opposite sex. Echoing the changing history of the term “transvestism”, cross-dressing (but not cross-dresser) is now being used to describe the act of wearing clothing of another gender.

Peter Baker was none of these.