Transgender

The landscape for transgender healthcare has been radically impacted by the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act [ACA]. The ACA paved the way for the state and country to address the discrimination and barriers to accessing care that many transgender people have experienced. Over the past few years there have been significant changes to trans-specific healthcare coverage, which can be attributed to the clarification of Senate Bill 2 and the state and federal mandates. In this…

no cure”(Human Rights Campaign, 2016). HIV affects the LGBT community most frequently, LGBT, stands for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, and it refers to a broad…

Gender Gender has always been depicted and generalized as a binary separation of opposing sexes. While gender is defined at birth, what happens when we don’t fall into the traditional concepts of gender? Gender identity vs. biological sex should be two separate concepts while we seem to group them into one. Gender identity allows for personal depiction of one’s self, formed thorough your family, peers, and social groups. Identity shouldn’t be defined by biological sex, but by who a person…

These groups are known to have a social space in their society that is based on their gender and sexuality. The two-spirits are both man and woman, otherwise known as transgender (Roughgarden 2004). These people focus on the spirit, rather than the body, this means that a transgender woman would dress like a woman but still physically appear as male. The Mahu are known as half man and half woman due to the women taking care of the young males but treating them as a female…

and its dependence upon external factors, that affect how and why certain identification may be preferential at different times”. Sense of self or self-image which hijra has about themselves is product of social interaction which they have with transgender community and same time with outer mainstream society as well. Simultaneously, this self-image also regulate action which is determined and associated with this self-image. Therefore, hijra participate in those actions…

Olympic hero, icon, role model, and transgender are all things that can describe Caitlyn Jenner. Jenner made the transition of a life time that many people have mixed feelings about. However, thousands of people look to her as a role model for her act of braveness and courage. Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, was born on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York. Jenner was first known as an Olympic hero during the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. At the age of 39 he won…

the transgender community, it is broken. The question that comes to their mind is, “Which restroom should I use?” The simple daily act of visiting the restroom is a struggle and some have worse experiences than others. That’s where gender neutral bathrooms come to save the day and stop those daily questions. Many colleges and universities work hard at improving inclusion and diversity on their campuses. What better way to improve campuses than implementing all gender bathrooms. Transgenders…

women), trans men (people categorized as female at birth who later come to identify as men), and nonbinary trans people (people who identify neither as simply men nor as simply women). I am not making any distinction between ‘transsexual’ and ‘transgender’ identities. (395-6). Some people might object Jenkins view claiming that transsexuals are people who transition from one sex to another, through surgical procedures and gain feminine/masculine features. A person born as a male can become…

The website that was most valuable to me for my research was DEFGLIS, which stands for “Defence Force Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Intersex Information Service”. With this website I found how the defence force can support the LGBT people with a strong supportive community by providing peer support to one another. They can strengthen the defence force capability through…

LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, etc.) teens, as most of us know, are looked down upon by a large majority of people. It is better today than it was just a couple of decades ago, but any amount of bullying for something these kids can’t control counts. In 2011, only four years ago, 82% of teens said they have been bullied for their sexual orientation. 44% felt unsafe because of their gender identity. More needs to be done for these kids; more than saying that “it gets better”, because…