Transgender

debate”, a term to symbolize the “debate over transgender rights when it comes to bathrooms” (Grinberg and Stewart), many satirical internet memes and cartoons were created to express each party’s political stance on the issue. It is interesting to see how internet memes can heavily sway a person’s view on an issue even though it can be either a fact or opinion. According to a PewResearchCenter article by Michael Lipka, “the visibility of transgender Americans has increased in recent years,…

Introduction The client to be discussed is Shawn Roberts. He is thirteen years old, of African American decent, and identifies as being male-to-female (MTF) transgender. At the beginning of treatment, Shawn had just finished the 9th grade of junior high as student at Radium Springs High School in Albany, GA. He has lived in Dougherty County with his single mother for his entire life. He doesn’t have any close friends nor extended family for support. He feels lonely and isolated, and…

with a Transgender Child Learn and Change is a written article from 2015 by Boston Globe reporter Crisela Guerra. This article is a short essay informs its audience about a specific issue within the transgender community, which is transgender children and their families. Guerra cultivates a convincing, open-minded, and well-balanced text with the use of ethos, by introducing the reader to a young transgender child named Q Daily, then uses logos by giving the reader the facts on transgender…

In “Passing Realities” by Allie Lie, she writes different narratives that reflect the effect of a gender normative society on transsexuals and transgender, while “Look! No, Don’t! The Invisibility Dilemma for Transgender Men” by Jamison Green, is about the parallels that exist in being a transsexual man. One being in how, being born a girl but never being a women, and being a man, but growing up in a girls body. Green also talks about the invisibility factor of sex. If someone is transsexual,…

observed to have become more accepting towards the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community through marriage laws, policies of protection, among others. Nevertheless, due to this recent acceptance there is a lack of research or knowledge on the subject of the LGBT – emphasis on the T – and that can be damaging to the person; particularly when involving health-care (Lim, Brown, & Justin Kim, 2014). Transgender patients may enter a doctor’s office with the possibility of having…

In the article, “Here’s what parents of transgender kids need to know,” Walt Heyer talks about the different ways the parents can comprehend their transgender kids and the consequences of misunderstanding. The most important and difficult question that parents face is what is the best way to support their transgender children to help them grow up and become young successful adults. People see transgender teens in different perspective based on their religions and beliefs. Also, according to the…

Non-Binary and Transgender People When a child is born the first thing their parents hear is, “Congratulations it’s a girl,” or “Congratulations it’s a boy”. Already trying to enforce the idea that there are only two genders the moment they take their first breath. JAC Stringer of the Heartland Trans* Wellness Group defined, gender binary as the cultural belief of only two genders existing and they have to correspond to the appropriate sex. This social construct is iterated on a daily basis…

Tehtee Paye Witcher English 101 26 January 2017 Transgender Bathrooms According to Webster “ Transgender people are people whose gender identity differs from the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth”.To give a more broader definition a person whose gender identity does not correspond to that person’s biological sex assigned at birth. Meaning that they basically alter their bodies into what they want it to be or feel comfortable with. The choice for one to choose what gender…

being , abandoned, judged, hated and isolated. They do not want their family members to treat them different than they treat everyone else . LGBT teens get bullied because they do not look like everyone else and are seen as the odd one out .“Among transgender students 42% were prevented from using their preferred name 59% were required to use a bathroom that did not match their gender identity 32% were prevented from wearing clothes appropriate to their gender identity”(Ford) . Gender identity…

Should transgenders be allowed to serve in the military? The topic on the transgenders in the military is considered to be a controversial topic in the news today. Many individuals agree and disagree on the issue regarding whether transgenders should be allowed to serve in the military. Several agree that allowing transgenders to serve in the military would be a negative impact on the military, while others feel as though it will be a huge step towards equality. Although many individuals have…