Regarding Katharine Jenkins - Amelioration and Inclusion, she claims that By ‘trans people’, I mean all people who identify as a gender other than the one to which they were assigned at birth, which includes trans women (people categorized as male at birth who later come to identify as women), trans men (people categorized as female at birth who later come to identify as men), and nonbinary trans people (people who identify neither as simply men nor as simply women). I am not making any distinction between ‘transsexual’ and ‘transgender’ identities. (395-6).
Some people might object Jenkins view claiming that transsexuals are people who transition from one sex to another, through surgical procedures and gain feminine/masculine features. A person born as a male can become recognizably female going under surgical …show more content…
Due to changes in social attitudes, general changes in the perception of gender also occurs over time. A trait considered masculine in one generation may be a feminine norm in the next. In Ancient Greece and Rome all people used to be bisexual and it was considered pretty common, also men used to wear long look-alike skirts and had long hair. Women wearing pants, for instance, would have been considered manly at one time. And though it may have been unusual in the not-too-distant past, many women earn equal to or more than their husbands today, while their husbands perform more of the household and childcare duties once assigned to women. Gender and what defines us as females and males is a shifting ground on each one of us stands, so I don't find it reasonable to put people under categories such as transsexual or
Some people might object Jenkins view claiming that transsexuals are people who transition from one sex to another, through surgical procedures and gain feminine/masculine features. A person born as a male can become recognizably female going under surgical …show more content…
Due to changes in social attitudes, general changes in the perception of gender also occurs over time. A trait considered masculine in one generation may be a feminine norm in the next. In Ancient Greece and Rome all people used to be bisexual and it was considered pretty common, also men used to wear long look-alike skirts and had long hair. Women wearing pants, for instance, would have been considered manly at one time. And though it may have been unusual in the not-too-distant past, many women earn equal to or more than their husbands today, while their husbands perform more of the household and childcare duties once assigned to women. Gender and what defines us as females and males is a shifting ground on each one of us stands, so I don't find it reasonable to put people under categories such as transsexual or