Transgender

us living in this society today don’t know what being a transgender means. To clarify what this term is defined as, transgender means that the individual was assigned a sex at birth, but their identity does not match the attached sex. For example, a child may have been born as a female, however, based on the personality and characteristics they may identify themselves as a male. In addition, this situation can also be reversed. Transgender is interpreted as going across or beyond the assigned…

The author’s motivation for writing “Being Black and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender”, is to help the audience better understand what it is like to be LGBT, and how it has evolved over the course of time. Manly through the lens of being LGBT in New York City, and how being a black LGBT interacts within a black community, and where they stand today. What the author wants us to think after we have read this article are as follows, he wants us to know that “black LGBT persons do not…

love, hate, and sadness, are like that.. The definition does not match the feeling in the slightest. Hatred is something everyone has to deal with but in particular, transgender people have to deal with hate. Danica Roem is openly transgender and she’s a member-elect of the Virginia House of Delegates. In fact, she is the first transgender person to be elected to public office. I would love to meet Danica not because she’s an inspiration to members of the LGBTQ+ community everywhere. (which she…

have been coined by Piers Morgan in February of 2014 to describe the apparent prejudice of transgender people, a historically oppressed group, against cisgender people, a historically privileged one. However, the reality is that there is no systematic oppression of cisgender people simply because they are cisgender, as there is oppression against transgender people purely for the fact that they are transgender. As one article states, “for the most part, the trans folks who claim to be…

seen as normal or acceptable in their religion. It is usually shunned and frowned upon. More so parents that actually listen to their children and help these kids that are discovering who they are. As you go into the world of learning about the transgender community you start to realize what actual troubles they go through. Even the process of actually getting their names and genders legally changed. Gender and Sex is considered to be the same thing. As you ask people what the difference is…

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 it). In this essay I attempt to re-examine transgender bathroom politics as a way of reconfiguring citizenship practices by incorporating in my analysis Holloway Sparks' (1997) concept of 'dissident citizenship', Shane Phelan's (2001) exploration of queer/ing communities, citizens and…

In the article it talks about some of the struggles of being transgender. In class the term was defined as someone who identifies themselves as the other sex but they haven’t gotten the surgery to physically change their anatomy. The article has several different athletes talk about their personal experiences in regards to how they orient themselves. In a normal society it is a difficult enough to have to cope with family and school. However with the added stress of being an athlete it bring up…

Police Profiling of Transgender people Name Institution Police Profiling of Transgender people The issue of the transgender people rights not being respected has been witnessed in the world. The Lesbians, Gays and Transgender people have been viewed as immoral people who should not be accepted in the normal society by a majority of people in the globe. When one is realized to be a transgender individual, the way he/she is treated by others in the public becomes different. The respect…

Gaps in nursing knowledge can predispose Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) patients to discriminative services. LGBT patients are among the largest group of the undeserved population within the nursing setting (Lim & Bernstein, 2012). The group is constantly exposed to homophobia, aversion, irrational fear and heterosexism. This heterosexism makes their experience less than ideal in health care environments compared to heterosexuals. This heterosexism also increases their risk for…

Transgender Bathroom Policy I can see where the people are coming from because the thought of having a transgender person in their bathroom can be quite uneasy. The feeling of it all is really hard to wrap our brains around, but the real question is why can't we just use the bathroom and go on. I mean for goodness sakes, it is just a bathroom. Forcing transgender people to use private or separate bathrooms is not the solution. As published on July 10, 2016 in the National Center for…