Genderqueer

clinical term, referring more to gender identity and gender expression than to sexual orientation or physical sex characteristics. It is also a more general and inclusive term: a transgender person may be gay, transsexual, transvestite, or even genderqueer. Transgender has been around for many years. It was kept in the closet. People did not want to show their sexuality because they were afraid, it wasn’t something that was accepted, and they were harassed and mistreated. Are schools today ready…

Deconstructing the gender binary and gender roles and expectations, serves as an initial pedagogical tool in the discussion of trans identities in the classroom. Since trans identities are as much a part of the field of gender and sexuality studies as conventional cisnormative and heteronormative identities, they cannot be studied in isolation, but must rather be viewed in terms of intersectionality. Mary Armstrong, in her essay, “Towards a Queer Pedagogy of Conflicted Practice,” identifies a…

in. I was only fifteen years old and in a constant pursuit of fun, working gave me the money to fuel that fun. I do not believe that my gender or the way in which I expressed it had much influence on this. I knew people who were male, female and genderqueer that made similar decisions. In 2004, while playing a small concert I meet a girl. She was the yen to my yang and she was the reason I chose to pursue my GED. One might think that my gender had some part in this, I was a genetic male doing…

American Standard English should adopt they as a third person epicene pronoun, also coined a gender neutral, gender-fair, or common-gender pronoun (Adami 281, Baranoski 379). Generic he has persisted since the 1850 Act of Parliament that declared it so, but is he truly generic (Zuber and Reed 519)? The use of he is sexist, excluding females and people who do not fall neatly within the male-female gender binary (Strahan 17). English also lacks a third person pronoun for instances when a person’s…

Discrimination in the workplace has become less common up-to-date, yet still occurs almost daily for the working LGBT body. Homosexuality and LGBT used to be widely seen as a disorder, which caused a horrendous amount of discrimination, especially for those in a workplace environment. Schools, government agencies and companies, as well as the military, continuously refused to employ individuals believed to be homosexual. In Social Problems, John J. Macionis dedicates a chapter to sexual…

I was definitely a gender nonconforming child. I wanted to play softball, which my parents were okay with. My grandmother wasn’t. She felt that it wasn’t proper for young ladies to play sports, especially ones which involved me coming home with a skinned elbow and dirt-stained pants. She would always say things like “this is a boy sport” and “you look like a boy!” I never really saw a problem with this, but the way she said it, I could tell that it was something ‘wrong.’ Which is why I bit my…

A recollection of my personal experiences of using public restrooms as a transwoman in the Philippines, as well as those bathroom stories shared to me by transwomen friends, gave me the urge to pen this reaction piece on how trans* and gender non-conforming people, through seemingly innocent, apolitical practices such as using the toilet, are 'queering' citizenship by asserting their right to access public spaces that validate their gender identity (including the uniqueness or possible lack of…

The Other Side of the Coin When someone hears the word gender, it tends to spark stereotypical thoughts, ones similar to girls playing with dolls and boys playing sports, or other similar variations. However, imagine someone that feels different from that, maybe they identify with the gender opposite to the one that they were assigned at birth. In recent scientific research, the questionability of other genders has popped up. As science is trying to decode the human brain, and are…

AL EXAM || WGS2500 || SPRING 2016 Multiple Choice (2pts each = 20 pts) 1. Abstinence only education: a. Delays first intercourse b. Reduces rates of teen pregnancy c. Reduces rates of STIs d. All of the above e. None of the above 2. Valenti argues that when women are pregnant their bodies are treated like: a. Basketballs b. Tea Kettles c. Fine China d. Public Property 3. Deborah Cameron, in her essay about names for the penis, argues that the names and metaphors used for the penis reflect…

Introduction: Why and When Qualitative Studies are Used Accurate, reliable research is often considered the gold standard of academia. Quantitative research, which uses statistics to answer its questions, is often thought of as being a far superior form of research when compared to its qualitative counterpart. Difficulty with evaluating the validity of qualitative research makes persons question its integrity. However, it would be absurd to overlook the value of this research. Qualitative…