There are so few transgenders on T.V., which means their struggle is swept under the rug. According to an EOnline’s interview with Nick Adams from GLAAD, “Forty-one percent of transgender people report attempting suicide—not thinking about suicide, but attempting suicide. It 's not because transgender people are more mentally unstable than anyone else, it 's because we live in a culture which makes it seem like it 's nearly impossible to be a happy, successful transgender person” (Adams). That is a huge number considering only 0.6% of people in the United States identifies as transgender. It’s deemed socially unacceptable by society, which has only caused the hate to continue to spew.…
They often face discrimination and have higher rates of poverty. On the other hand, around the world, culture dictates, at a very young age, how boys and girls are supposed to act, feel and respond to certain situations. The history of transgender people is widespread and fascinating. Over the millennia the transgendered and transsexual individuals were considered magical, had close relationships with the gods they worshipped, and thought of as having extraordinary power. During the last 200 years, western culture condemned them of being immoral.…
Pliny the Younger, nephew of Pliny the Elder, was a civil servant that governed Bithynia. He was the first to encounter Christians, and was confused on how to adapt to it. So, he wrote a letter to Trajan asking for assistance. This is the soonest inner record demonstrating the Roman Empire's demeanor and arrangement towards the congregation. In addition, Pliny does students of history the immense support of portraying what he has found about the way Christians venerated.…
The victims of this brutal situation have committed suicide or they have experienced brutal physical abuse by their partners, or random people when they find out their gender or sexual preference. Public and school bathrooms were banned for a while because the schools were getting notified about people’s transitions/orientation. People have verbally abused people with different preferences.…
i agree 100% with that person. transgendered are normal human being if you look at them for what they are now, if you never knew they used to be a different gender no one would…
It is 2016, and in today’s world, gender is but a place on your lower body. People can identify as the opposite gender than they were born with, or identify as both genders, and even identify as no gender at all. It has become a personal issue that is not yet fully accepted into society. If someone finds out you are a transgender, they have the right to refuse service to you or kick you out, no questions asked. Transgender people are treated differently because of how they identify themselves.…
The unfortunate reality of this, is when a person doesn’t perform their gender the way they are told, they are discriminated against. And this relates back to how oppression is used as a way to uphold the hegemonic privilege. Also, transgender persons help to strengthen the hegemonic privilege.…
A transgender is identified as an individual who has a personal identity toward the opposite sex or has undergone a sex change from the assigned sex from birth. Transgenders in America has become a more prevalent thing to see, but it is very uncommon and unlikely to…
In the case of trans people, medicalization has turned the trans identity into one that needs to be diagnosed and sterilized, streamlining the way that one can exist as trans in the world. As we’ve discussed in class, medicalization leaves room for only one type of narrative, the one that will get individuals access to things like legal name changes and surgeries. This leads…
The Destruction of Pentheus In Euripides’ “The Bacchae,” Dionysus, disguised as a man, goes out to Thebes to assert his rights and gain respect from those who do not acknowledge him as a god. He encounters Pentheus, king of Thebes, still in an adolescent stage and fearful of femininity, something that Dionysus’ worship revolves around. In The Menace of Dionysus: Sex Roles and Reversals in Euripides’ Bacchae, Charles Segal explains why men were so fearful of the out of control woman and how that affected Pentheus, his growth and ultimate destruction: the destruction not only of Pentheus but the whole society. Segal claims that Dionysus is a threat to Pentheus because he affects Pentheus’ masculinity and ability to transition into adulthood;…
Even some of the Popes in Rome were known to be women. The medical professions in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and the twentieth centuries chose to see transgendered people as “someone with a problem” because they did not meet the standards of social norms for the time. In the past two hundred years, there have been thousands of reports of men and women having different sets of genitalia than expected. Transgender can be observed and identified in all cultures regardless of the level of acceptance, but some cultures are more receptive to alternate lifestyle than…
‘“Night to His Day’: The Social Construction of Gender,” Judith Lorber’s article written in the mid 90s, describes western societies as having two genders: men and women. Lorber explains that, while they not wholly separate genders, transvestities and transexuals are “crossover genders” (2007: 43) floating in between society’s two genders. Society’s framework for gender affects everything a person does from the moment that person is born, without them even knowing it. The clothes a person wears, the friends a person makes, the job that person ultimately does or does not get: all affected by gender.…
In August of 1965 identical twin boys were born. An accident occurred 8 months later during circumcision to one of the boys. The doctor accidentally burned the baby causing it to lose its penis. Doctors were going in and out to see the little baby boy to come up with a solution to fix it. Not one single doctor was able to come up with an idea or solution on how to fix it and eventually gave up.…
Before coming into this course, I was not completely sure about the meaning for someone who was transgender. I learned that someone who is transgender is someone that senses their personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex. Millions of people struggle with their personal identity and it is even tougher when they do not have anyone to talk to about what really is going on with them. I honestly was shocked when I first saw the video I could not believe someone that little would question their sexuality. Danann was only 4 years old when she knew god had made a mistake bringing her into this world as a boy.…
The transgender movement first emerged in 1952, but was formality made into a movement in 1969 with the Stonewall riots, which also was the birth of the LGBT movement. Since then transgender rights and transgendered people, in general, have been a prevalent topic in todays media since the passing of several LGBT laws. The passing of laws in favour of the LGBT, such as, marriage equality law, the transgender community is now focusing on obtaining laws that favour the movement in gaining equal and civil rights. Now ever since the movement emerged there has been a debate over whether there needs to be laws to protect them from discrimination. There are roughly 1.4 million people who identify as transgender in the U.S. and with the increase in…