Rhetorical Strategies in Tobin’s “What’s Missing from the Anti-Trans Ruling?” America is a country in which every man is created equal; but what about the young men and women who may not identify as the gender they were born with? Harper Jean Tobin is an advocate for transgender teens who as of right now, are not being treated as equals by law. Tobin’s article starts with a brief summary on district judge Reed O’Connor’s most recent injunction on the federal government’s allowance of bathrooms in high school being available to all gender identities.…
Black Feminism Oppression According to Nowell (2007), oppression is when individuals are treated to economic, political, cultural, or social degradation due to their “belonging” to a specific social group. Black women have struggled to live in two contrasting worlds concurrently, one black, oppressed, and exploited, the other white, oppressive, and privileged (Collins, 1999, p. 26). According to Collins (1999), they have continued to exist as significant because U.S. black women are still constituted as an oppressed group (p. 22).…
Gender nonconforming, gender identity and gender binary are topics seldom used in conversation involving children. In one discussion when people were asked to define the word gender many of them said it meant someone was male or female. The true meaning of the word gender translates to people and their behavior and characteristics, whether masculine or feminine. Equally important when the prefix trans is added to gender and the word transgender is formed many people immediately think it is homosexual or transsexual in nature. The truth is transgender people are not gay nor do choose to have the characteristics of someone of the opposite sex.…
A man that wants to be a woman making fun of women who sound like men. A transgender who wants to be accepted but cannot accept others. A person who is bullied for being a Transgender & mocks women because they have a natural physique.…
Imagine shopping in a mall, and there is a woman standing confused right in front of the bathroom signs that clearly indicates men and women. What is the confusion? You asked yourself. Well, this woman was biologically born as a man; but, she has the desire to use the ladies washroom. With so much contemplation, and fearing the repercussions, she took the step of fate into the ladies washroom.…
How is it that problems such as bullying and suicide are so prominent in a world considered to be the most advanced it has ever been? Among today’s youth, suicide is an important and rising concern. In communities around the United States of America, this problem especially affects lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Bullying against such individuals is still a relevant issue despite efforts for equal rights. Support systems are an important part of stopping these reoccurring tragedies.…
A current issue in education is the lack of support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students (LGBT). Transgender refers to a person’s gender identify--a person’s innate sense of being male, female, or somewhere in between( Banks& Banks, 2013). School are starting altering these practices: inviting same-sex couples to prom, providing gender neutral or individual bathrooms and locker rooms for transgender student, and including LGBT people and perspectives in the curriculum (McCollum, 2010). With acceptance, this population still face discrimination and prejudice. In school, LGBT students are harassed and bullied.…
This study discusses how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth come out about their sexual identity. It speaks about how coming out online and offline can be very different, whereas most youth come out as being part of the LGBTQ community online before they come out to the public. Most youth that has not publicly come out as part of the LGBTQ community will identify as heterosexual in public but personally as lesbian, gay or bisexual (Craig, & McInroy, 2014). Prior research came up with 6 stages of the coming out process, the model includes stage one as identity confusion, then identity comparison, identity tolerance, identity acceptance, identity pride and identity synthesis or integration. Most of this model has been…
What it means to be Transgender Imagine being seventeen years old with your entire future in sight. Suddenly this is all brought to halt due to violence fueled by complete ignorance and hatred. “In 2003 Gwen Araujo, a transgender teenager from a small town in Northern California, was murdered by a group of young men who beat her to death with a shovel after discovering that she had male genitalia. The attorneys representing the young men argued that their clients’ actions were justified by Gwen’s ‘deception’ in not disclosing her transgender identity to them” (Paisley, Minter, Juang 1).…
"From the moment we are born gender organizes our world into blue or pink. "It seemed nature had played a cruel joke on me." Gender identity disorder. NOT a phase. "My child is a boy.…
This is why the LGBT community needs to have more rights because it makes equality not that big of an issue, makes the LGBT community feel more comfortable with talking to people about their sexual orientation or gender identity, the adoption rate will increase, and the suicide death rate will become less drastic. The LGBT community should have more equality. Many LGBT teenagers do not have control over their coming out experience. Some of them are perceived as LGBT and may already be…