Transgender

I now understood how children feel about being transgender. When I become a father, I will not be hard on my children because it would be very hard for me to know that children are not satisfied, or thinking about killing themselves. My research revealed that gender dysphoria is a condition in which there is a conflict between a person's physical gender and the gender the individual identifies his or herself. It would be very difficult to determine how many people are transgendered. The answer…

In this article, Rands (2009) investigated how to introduce transgender issues in the classroom as well as challenging the current forms of gender education. This theoretical piece engages with pre-existing studies and literature surrounding transgender issues and various forms of gender oppression. Proposing new approaches to the subject, Rands suggests that a gender-complex approach be implemented through the self-education of teacher educators on its importance, teachers should focus on…

Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, Schilt studies the experience of Transgender men in the workplace. Through her studies, Schilt attempts…

life of Brandon Teena, a transgender male. This film shows what life was like for Teena Brandon to transition to living life as Brandon Teena. It shows the struggle that he had to go through to live life and blend in as a male. Provides a clear picture of the sociological factors that affect the lives of transgender individuals and the reality of what could possibly result from others finding out about them. It shows the reality of transphobia and violence against transgender individuals. In…

I should have graduated this year, but my school refused to give me the same opportunity to succeed as other boys. Now other transgender youth won’t have to choose between being themselves and graduating high school.” Supporters of the bill argued in court that graduating in time was one of their main concerns for transgender students, and that approving this bill would be essential in order for that to happen. Many opposed to this bill would differ with that avowal, especially…

Published in 2014, Manning Up is a collection of personal essays by transgender men. Taken as a whole, the collection represents new ground in the field of transgender life writing. While memoir and autobiography by and about transgender people can be traced back at least as far as the 1960s, the genre is constituted mostly by full-length autobiographies by a single author––such as Christine Jorgenson: A Personal Autobiography, Kate Bornstein’s A Queer and Pleasant Danger, and Jameson Green’s…

Gooren, 1999). While there are both transgender females (Male to Female) and transgender males (Female to Male), there are almost 3 times more Male to Female than the opposite. The first transgender surgeries…

Introduction Southern Comfort is a documentary about Robert Eads, a transgender man. The film documents the final year of Robert’s life, as he was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Robert was turned down for treatment by a dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations or embarrass their patients. By the time Robert received treatment, the cancer was too advanced to save his life and he passed away in 1999, surrounded by his chosen family. Case History Robert…

In Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 movie, Boys Don’t Cry was based on real life events of Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) who is a young female-to-male transgender individual. In the opening scene of Boys Don’t Cry, Brandon leaves his hometown because his ex-girlfriend’s brother discovers that Brandon is biologically a female. In the same night, Brandon gets into a bar fight where he met John (Peter Sarsgaard) and Tom (Brendan Sexton III). Eventually, Bandon ends up traveling with Tom and John to a small…

“Bathroom Bills” and Sexual Assault: Unfounded Fears Transgender woman Michelle Martinez faces up to seventy years in prison after sexually assaulting a young girl in a bathroom. This shocking crime in 2017 confirmed the fears of those who want to keep transgender women out of women’s restrooms. Just one year earlier, the North Carolina House passed a bill which prohibited individuals from using restrooms and changing rooms that did not correspond to the sex on their birth certificates. This…