Homework Assignment #3 Diagnosis:
Gender Identity Disorder
After watching the documentary, I noticed that transgender people often go through a series of changes, both physically and psychologically. And during many times transgender people become anxious and depressed, and they most often start having some suicidal thoughts, and there are some people that might face bullying and self-dislike such as the girl in the documentary. According to Capuzza (2015), he proved some studies that was conducted on the transgender people showed that these types of people suffer from unusual sexual and physical abuse, as well as discrimination in during job employment in our society. I learned that many parents disagree with allowing their kids deciding what gender they want to be and they usually discourage these actions. On the other hand, there are many parents …show more content…
These conditions might start to show as early as a childhood and it gets intensified as they get to the adolescent or the adult stage in life. Generally, people with Gender Identity Disorder feel uncomfortable from the feelings that they are carrying the wrong sex and body. (Kenneth and Bradley, 1995). Boys that are suffering from this disorder are usually dressed in girls ' clothes instead of wearing boys ' clothes. Those type of people would also try to avoid getting involved in a sport that requires masculine and rough activities (Maccoby and Jacklin, 1985). Also, these boys tend to like playing more often with the girls than playing with guys. People with this disorder wishes about have female reproductive parts than having the males ' parts, and it was especially seen with that case that we saw in the documentary online. (Kenneth & Bradley,1995). The studies revealed that there are usually more males than females that have a Gender Identity Disorder in our
Gender Identity Disorder
After watching the documentary, I noticed that transgender people often go through a series of changes, both physically and psychologically. And during many times transgender people become anxious and depressed, and they most often start having some suicidal thoughts, and there are some people that might face bullying and self-dislike such as the girl in the documentary. According to Capuzza (2015), he proved some studies that was conducted on the transgender people showed that these types of people suffer from unusual sexual and physical abuse, as well as discrimination in during job employment in our society. I learned that many parents disagree with allowing their kids deciding what gender they want to be and they usually discourage these actions. On the other hand, there are many parents …show more content…
These conditions might start to show as early as a childhood and it gets intensified as they get to the adolescent or the adult stage in life. Generally, people with Gender Identity Disorder feel uncomfortable from the feelings that they are carrying the wrong sex and body. (Kenneth and Bradley, 1995). Boys that are suffering from this disorder are usually dressed in girls ' clothes instead of wearing boys ' clothes. Those type of people would also try to avoid getting involved in a sport that requires masculine and rough activities (Maccoby and Jacklin, 1985). Also, these boys tend to like playing more often with the girls than playing with guys. People with this disorder wishes about have female reproductive parts than having the males ' parts, and it was especially seen with that case that we saw in the documentary online. (Kenneth & Bradley,1995). The studies revealed that there are usually more males than females that have a Gender Identity Disorder in our