Gender Identification
In the excerpt from Journal Sentinel, Mark Johnson explains that “gender dictates how we see children in the most fundamental ways - everything from the toys, books and clothes moms and dads buy, to the proms, weddings and other milestones they imagine. (par 15)” Jennifer has a daughter who has identified herself as a boy since the age of two. She tried to downplay these actions and tried to dress her “son” as a girl until she reached a point where she was tired of arguing and fighting with Izzy on how to dress. A study of Dutch twins published in 2006 stated that, “between 0.9% and 1.7% wished they were the opposite sex.(par 18)” A national advocacy group explains that, “780,000 to 3.1 million people- believe they have …show more content…
Experts say that there is no reliable figure and if you were to put it on the census people would not check the box due to the stigma attached to the label. John Kryger, chief of pediatric urology at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin explains that, “It isn’t about sexuality, but identity… gender is who you go to bed as, sexuality is who you go to bed with.(par 19)” The term transgender first appeared in 1960 for people who cross the gender border. Stephen Rosenthal, medical director of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at University of California, San Francisco along with J. Michael Bostwick, a professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic believe that gender is brain based. Children gain perception of gender early in life before sexuality comes into play. It is between the first and second year when children will speak up about their gender states Diane Ehrensaft. Genes, hormones, and the brain all play a part in gender identity. Before know as “gender identity disorder” it has now changed to “gender dysphoria” because families did not like the classification of a mental illness. There have been some cases reported of mutations causing a sabotage to the y chromosome resulting in “masculinized”
In the excerpt from Journal Sentinel, Mark Johnson explains that “gender dictates how we see children in the most fundamental ways - everything from the toys, books and clothes moms and dads buy, to the proms, weddings and other milestones they imagine. (par 15)” Jennifer has a daughter who has identified herself as a boy since the age of two. She tried to downplay these actions and tried to dress her “son” as a girl until she reached a point where she was tired of arguing and fighting with Izzy on how to dress. A study of Dutch twins published in 2006 stated that, “between 0.9% and 1.7% wished they were the opposite sex.(par 18)” A national advocacy group explains that, “780,000 to 3.1 million people- believe they have …show more content…
Experts say that there is no reliable figure and if you were to put it on the census people would not check the box due to the stigma attached to the label. John Kryger, chief of pediatric urology at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin explains that, “It isn’t about sexuality, but identity… gender is who you go to bed as, sexuality is who you go to bed with.(par 19)” The term transgender first appeared in 1960 for people who cross the gender border. Stephen Rosenthal, medical director of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at University of California, San Francisco along with J. Michael Bostwick, a professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic believe that gender is brain based. Children gain perception of gender early in life before sexuality comes into play. It is between the first and second year when children will speak up about their gender states Diane Ehrensaft. Genes, hormones, and the brain all play a part in gender identity. Before know as “gender identity disorder” it has now changed to “gender dysphoria” because families did not like the classification of a mental illness. There have been some cases reported of mutations causing a sabotage to the y chromosome resulting in “masculinized”