Gender describes the characteristics and aptitudes that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine (Nobelius). Gender affects everything in our lives because it relates our personality to what we do, how we act like and look like every day, in fact it briefly describes how we are in general . Now, Transgender is the state of one's self gender identity( one's self sense of identification between masculine and femenine ) not matching one's assigned sex which is based on physical sexuality at birth (GLAAD). Today, most of the countries define gender based on the physical,biological and genetic sexuality at birth while there is at least one transgender person, whose self-gender identity is different from the assigned gender
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The court rejected gender ( self-identification ) as a proper indicator of legal sex and opted to stop the controversy and avoid confusion by using the Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary's definitions of male and female. According to the definition, female is defined as “designating or of the sex that produces ova and bears offspring: opposed to male.” Of course transgender people have to be identified by the law with their original sex identity even if they have done the transsexual process. the transgender population should enjoy the same rights and benefits as others since in some cases gender and sex identity interpretation interferes with the unalienable right of pursuit of happiness and violates the human right to respect for private life. Sex is “commonly used to refer to a person's status as a man or woman based on biological factors although sex reflects a person's biology, as opposed to gender, which is generally considered to be socially constructed, the biological aspect of the body that determines a person's sex has not yet been legally or medically resolved” (Currah, 52)Although most of the courts have rejected self-identification as a proper indicator of legal sex, there are still some courts that have
The court rejected gender ( self-identification ) as a proper indicator of legal sex and opted to stop the controversy and avoid confusion by using the Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary's definitions of male and female. According to the definition, female is defined as “designating or of the sex that produces ova and bears offspring: opposed to male.” Of course transgender people have to be identified by the law with their original sex identity even if they have done the transsexual process. the transgender population should enjoy the same rights and benefits as others since in some cases gender and sex identity interpretation interferes with the unalienable right of pursuit of happiness and violates the human right to respect for private life. Sex is “commonly used to refer to a person's status as a man or woman based on biological factors although sex reflects a person's biology, as opposed to gender, which is generally considered to be socially constructed, the biological aspect of the body that determines a person's sex has not yet been legally or medically resolved” (Currah, 52)Although most of the courts have rejected self-identification as a proper indicator of legal sex, there are still some courts that have