Transgender

Are you tired of pretending someone is a girl or a boy when they are the opposite? Gender Dysphoria relates to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex. People who are transgender often change their look, actions, and lifestyle. Many seek attention and want to be seen as special people. Sadly, people give them attention in which they feed off of and continue to bend this idea of humanity. This is commonly seen in schools, sports, and just…

Out as Transgender Agender”, ChandlerNWilson, is able to address many different factors for why sharing their gender identification is difficult to their mother. I chose to transcribe the moments leading up to their utterance of the words “I identify as agender” where they address their reasoning for deciding to come out to their mother. During this excerpt, Chandler is only talking to their mother. Chandler addresses her behavior towards Chandler’s sister and her identification as transgender,…

Most transgender students will keep it a secret, not letting teachers or administrators know what is going on because they are ashamed and think it will do more harm than good. You hit like a girl”, is something that you would hear in early education. In middle school and high school that is a totally different ballgame. In these grades you will hear derogatory words such as “sissy, dike, queer” just to name a few. With the increase in transgender students, teachers have to learn…

Like many controversial topics, the LGBT community isn’t substantially accepted in most of the country, the transgender sub community, especially. Transgender people in general are a massive target in America presently; being degraded on social media networks, and are even harassed and brutally murdered. The transgender community, and even those who support them, are constantly judged for their choices to partake in such a life choice. What people fail to understand is that aside from the few…

It is the subscript of David Valentine’s Imagining Transgender – an ethnography of a category that clues in readers to the important fascinating turn his work takes across its three hundred some odd pages. Unlike other academic works up through the time of its publication (2007) which have tended to align a particular transgender experience with queer-studies (Feinberg 1997, Wilchins 2004), autobiographical/ “insider” narratives (Boylan 2003/2013; Bornstein 1993), or social service primers (Lev…

Jenner is one of the most famous transgender role model on social media right now. Bruce Jenner has been changing his appearance for months, leading to gossip that the former Olympic athlete is becoming a woman. Why am I…

Transgender is when an individual tries to switch genders. The term “transgender” is becoming more and more well known throughout the United States. Research has proven that many trans-individuals decide later on in their lives that they want to switch genders, and other people argue that they were born the wrong gender, making it a very controversial topic. There are many obstacles that trans-people face throughout their lives. Depending on what state trans-people live in, they are faced…

students as they make their way through school. The survey also expressed that often times, there are schools that refuse to include LGBT education in their curriculum. Transgender students in schools face discrimination from multiple sources in schools. From refusal to use preferred names and pronouns to preventing students from using a non-gender specific bathroom, students hear remarks from both their teachers, peers, and even school administrators. Students are often turned away from…

Transgender Transgender is not a choice or a phase it is a consistent gender identity that as a society we need to learn to accept. Transgender means that you do not identify your gender as the sex that you were assigned to at birth. Transgender people have the hardest time being accepted by their own families and loved ones, which really presents a problem in the transgender community. In recent studies showed that 75% of transgender individuals have experienced significant rejection from…

genders and known as transgender people. Currently in America, the rights of transgenders and all members of the LGBTQ community are being debated. A major issue that is being debated is whether or not transgender people should be allowed in the military. Originally, my stance on this issue was that transgender people should be allowed into the military. However, my stance has shifted with new information I learned from the LGBTQ group’s presentation. For the reason that Transgender people will…