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    positions and identity politics mean the transgender citizenship is an uneven and challenged environment (Hines, 2007). Being a Trans child entering citizenship can be challenging and intimidating. The views and outlooks from society are strongly voiced as mostly disgust, displaying a negative and uneducated approach to why children and young people want to become Transgender (Grossman & Augelli, 2006). However,…

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    In Cindy Boren’s article titled “When football players join in to mock transgender people, Kansas high school students protest with a sit-in,” Cindy reports on Kansas students who protested transgender slurs used in an app known as GroupMe. “More than one hundred students… cuts classes and held a sit-in” protesting transgender slurs and “football player… who could play”, after being part of such conversation. The sit-in was led by the Total Equality Alliance, when students, like sophomore Elliot…

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    In Hir, Taylor Mac calls into question heteronormative ideals of gender by addressing the transgender issues many may face. Mac uses a transgendered child in the play, which allows for the characters and audience members to gain a new perspective and “move into a new world”. Max (previously Maxine) explains how he prefers to be referred to as “hir” or “ze". Currently, many institutions are making strides to move past these heteronormative ideals of gender by creating different pronouns which…

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    Over the course of life, we are always looking to find ourselves. We are looking to create our individual identities and find what makes us who we are. Finding yourself and keeping your identity is not always easy. In our culture, we are always pressured to be a certain way. We can see this quite easily from a young age up through adulthood. Society pushes us to be “normal”, and if we don’t fit the norm, we are ridiculed. We as a culture are pushed in a certain direction and forced to try…

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    bathrooms, this situation can be quite uncomfortable for those who do not identity. Similarly in sports, if there is a transgender teammate there has been controversy over how they are so fast, if it’s fair to be that fast for a woman per say. With this, should teams pick the best of the best for individual men and individual women, or allow transgender people to participate? If a transgender who identified as a woman was outstandingly fast, would she be allowed to compete against men to prove…

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    to be non-binary a fad and hopes that it will soon fade as “common sense” prevails (19), sources show that the non-binary is here to stay. McInroy and Craig do point out that transgender (non-binary) people are being increasingly portrayed in the media (606) and that there are many online resources available to aid transgender people in their gender development and inclusion in their communities (613). This has been supported as numerous blogs and various YouTube channels have recently surfaced…

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    Overall being on the show pushed him into coming out about it him being transgender and to follow through with what he started back in the 1970’s. To Bruce Jenner, he wasn’t comfortable with who he was and the body he was in. He was jealous of other men feeling comfortable in their own skin, and also other women being able to…

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    Bathrooms: A Media Analysis The present paper aims to introduce and discuss the current political issue around gender-neutral toilets and its relevance to the Transgender community. Firstly, the current review will present a brief overview of the history of unisex toilets and how this subject has been an important issue for the Transgender community. Secondly, it will take into consideration the Bathroom bill approved in North Carolina in March 2016, and the consequences that arose. Specifically…

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    same-sex couples have a higher employment and can afford much more at times they are not the ones that get the house or the job. Many of them still get fired from their jobs for being homosexual or transgender. Many landlords and real estates refuse to give the apartment or houses to homosexuals or transgenders. Many same-sex couples have trouble getting services for their wedding. Just buying a cake can cause a lot of problems for them. Many people may say no or say that they don’t provide…

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    gender goes way beyond the make-up of the biological system (Reed, Franks, & Scherr, 2015; Teich, 2012). According to Stryker (2008), gender is a social construct that has set a gender binary to label and define males and females to which being Transgender (Trans*) defies. This leaves a wide margin of possibilities of gender that is not acceptable to how gender is socially established. It is a growing understanding in psychology that gender cannot fit into two…

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