Transgender

success, and increased self-confidence. It can also help with academic achievement.” This lead me to wonder how transgenders are affected by sports and if it helps their self esteem at all. This is when and where the question of if transgenders have an unfair advantage in sports? There are a lot of interesting things I found from researching the advantages and disadvantages of transgender people participating in sports. After looking at one or two articles the information all seemed the same,…

During the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender team members were the first to ever be allowed into the Black Sea Resort. “It 's not accepted here in the Caucasus where we live.” Says mayor Antoly Pakhomov “We do not have them in our city.(Fiona, 2)” However, the Russian government was willing…

have been a part of the LGBTQ+ community since my junior year of high school, and I can say that the people in this community are some of the strongest, toughest, and most pride-filled people there is. LGBTQ+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer, and any other identities that have yet to be broadly publicized, including Asexuality, and Intersex people (Weinberg). These groups are very tight-knit, both amongst their intersections and in the community as a whole. The United…

progresses, the people are becoming more open, and are discovering this is not the case. Cross-dressing, simply stated, is dressing as the opposite gender. One does not need to a homosexual, transgender, or transexual to do so. Some straight males cross-dress for various reasons but do not identify as transgender or transexual. Though these communities do cross over into one another, which lead one to be confounded on the appropriate terminology that is both respectful and accepted.…

state of our society, as well as in much of human history, an individual’s gender and sexuality, in addition to their expression thereof, determine much of their social standing. Men and women face vastly different realities, as do cisgender and transgender people, and heterosexual and non-heterosexual people (to whom I will hereto refer as queer individuals, as a reclamation of the slur). Exactly how separate are gender and sexuality, though, and how do they correlate? While carried by each of…

while others have no allowance for grievance should someone be denied the use of a facility based on gender identification. Some businesses and medical offices have installed unisex bathrooms in an attempt to help minimize conflict and stress for transgender individuals. People who have undergone gender reassignment surgery will also have to have the gender listed on legal documents changed to reflect their new gender. Some governments require physician signatures for applicants who gender…

pervasive – and, to gain access for various aforementioned medical and surgical remedies, most widely accepted – of transsexual narratives. Yet it is not the only way transgender individuals in binary-gendered societies attempt to understand their identities…

By Kierkegaard’s standards, the lack of loving your neighbor as yourself may be the root of the problem of dehumanization. In Charles Kinnane’s The Human Experience, the audience is introduced to a homeless woman living on the streets. She tells the story of a time when, while living on the streets with four dogs, people felt the need to give the animals a place to stay so they wouldn’t freeze on the streets. The people stood around and made sure that the dogs had a home to go to, but paid no…

They reminded me of each other because both the women in RHW-NYC and transgender people are consistently put on trial. Transgender people are forced to conform to one gender or another and are frequently asked about their genital and are put on a trial to see if they fit the stereotypes and if not, then they don’t have the right to call themselves transgender. The same goes for them women of RHW-NYC. They are put on a series finale where fans and a moderator ask…

mentions in (De)subjugated Knowledges, multiple criticisms of Butler’s work. Critiquing Butler on the basis of “the self-understanding of many transgender people, who consider their sense of gendered self not to be subject to their instrumental will, not divestible, not a form of play” (10). Stryker’s critiques of gender are more nuanced because she views transgender identities as a means of challenging the fact that no one can accurately make an ontological claim about their gender identity.…