People often confuse the two words “Gender” and “Sex”. These words are far from similar. To clear things up, Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. Sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women. Many qualities of identification are formed throughout life from childhood experience, adolescence, and adulthood. Our identities will forever be forming, Identity can therefore continuously be changing externally according to the ongoing life experiences through which a person goes through. Deaths, marriage, divorce, abuse, good or bad fortune are good examples as to why external identity could change.
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“Individuals having this disorder often exhibit discomfort about their actual anatomic gender, and they may have wished to alter their bodies” (Masroor 2013). They hold this belief that he or she was born the wrong sex and are believed to be classified with a Gender Identity Disorder. From what the guest speaker talked to us about, transgender people face dramatic challenges every day. They never know where they fit in at. Some statistics he shared with us were that hate violence happens to every one of twelve people for white transgender and it gets worse for transgender of color, for them hate violence happens to every one of eight. One really shocking thing that our speaker shared with us is that there is no law against murdering a transgender individual, the person could say that the victim scared or shocked them so much with their Gender Identity Disorder that the actions they took were completely out of self of defense. I was completely blown away by this. They take a big step in life, leading to a crazy realization that once they take that step for some of them life will never be the same and they may not ever be …show more content…
A 2004 California study found a 30.7% smoking rate for transgender people. In the general population, men smoke at higher rates than women, but in LGBT studies, women smoke at higher rates than men (Duncan 2014).
This presentation really opened my eyes to things I never knew. The challenge’s these individuals go through, the discrimination they take on, the disrespect from doctors and learning about the whole crossing over part were some of the things I was really interested in. It was so interesting to learn about how the crossing over process includes hormones, psychiatric help, doctor’s notes and approvals. The costs for treatments and name changing was outrageous and now I can understand why so many transgender/transsexual individuals do not only have trouble making the transition but also those who do make the transition do not take the surgical
“Individuals having this disorder often exhibit discomfort about their actual anatomic gender, and they may have wished to alter their bodies” (Masroor 2013). They hold this belief that he or she was born the wrong sex and are believed to be classified with a Gender Identity Disorder. From what the guest speaker talked to us about, transgender people face dramatic challenges every day. They never know where they fit in at. Some statistics he shared with us were that hate violence happens to every one of twelve people for white transgender and it gets worse for transgender of color, for them hate violence happens to every one of eight. One really shocking thing that our speaker shared with us is that there is no law against murdering a transgender individual, the person could say that the victim scared or shocked them so much with their Gender Identity Disorder that the actions they took were completely out of self of defense. I was completely blown away by this. They take a big step in life, leading to a crazy realization that once they take that step for some of them life will never be the same and they may not ever be …show more content…
A 2004 California study found a 30.7% smoking rate for transgender people. In the general population, men smoke at higher rates than women, but in LGBT studies, women smoke at higher rates than men (Duncan 2014).
This presentation really opened my eyes to things I never knew. The challenge’s these individuals go through, the discrimination they take on, the disrespect from doctors and learning about the whole crossing over part were some of the things I was really interested in. It was so interesting to learn about how the crossing over process includes hormones, psychiatric help, doctor’s notes and approvals. The costs for treatments and name changing was outrageous and now I can understand why so many transgender/transsexual individuals do not only have trouble making the transition but also those who do make the transition do not take the surgical