Transgender

Contrasts and Evaluations of Namaste and Butler’s Approaches to Violence against Transwomen In “Undoing Theory, The ‘Transgender Question’ and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory”, Viviane Namaste (2009) examines the impacts of feminist knowledge production on transgender lives, specifically looking at the ways in which Judith Butler’s theories frame violence against transwomen. Indeed, in doing so, Namaste astutely points out that Butler fails to recognize the complexity of…

it would make genderqueer (transgender and non-binary) questioning students and feel much safer and better represented in their own school. To begin, many genderqueer students feel unsafe in single gender restrooms, and the psychological effects are damaging. Going into single gender bathrooms can cause anxiety, fear, and other stresses for genderqueer students. They could be targeted by cisgender students, and experience verbal and physical harassment. Transgender people are almost nine times…

congruent with one another; however, this is not true for everyone. Gender dysphoria, as known as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), means when someone is distressed because their gender identity is not the same as the one assigned from birth. Typically transgender people are the one’s experiencing for this distress (American Psychiatric Association, 2013; Blanchard, 1988). The concept of gender, while everyone does it every day, it very complex and controversial topic. For someone to understand…

After reading the passage “When Women Become Men at Wellesley,” by Ruth Padawer I came to conclusion that transgender students should be allowed to get an education in a same-sex institution like Wellesley College because these students are or were identified as women once in their lifetime. In institutions like these is what they require to be accepted to their education system, something to proof that they are a woman; if that is a problem title IX is there to be used for the help against…

tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question” (Vaughn, 2015). Taking all of the vulnerable populations at hand within the binary gender system, being that of women, intersex or transgender, it is apparent that the actions of discrimination against these parties leads to a clear deterioration of happiness, thus making it immoral. If the gender system was removed, the issues associated with sexism and homophobia would no longer…

Some people think that homosexuals are horrible persons that don’t deserve to be treated with the same respect we treat heterosexuals. Truth is that we are all equals and sexual orientation does not matter when comparing the skills we all have as individuals. There are a lot of differences made in our society which includes sex, gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Among these differences, sexual orientation is definitely an important point to be discussed knowing that same-sex marriage has…

people to express themselves in certain ways. For example, when someone spray paint on a federal public building the person can be place under arrest, even though they are expressing how they feel. In the same manner, when it comes to allowing transgender individuals to use restrooms that doesn’t accommodate to the other sex, it plays a problem for those who feel their privacy is being violated. A problem that could occur is the federal government…

Clearly, this indicates that our cultural norms are at a turning point, as the diversity of gender roles are now accepted and transgender is a medical designation (Zasshi, 2012). The history of aggression towards transgendered individuals is gruesome, not only to the individuals themselves, but also to political activists and medical professionals who fought for medical treatment…

The LGBT Community I want to discuss to you is all about LGBT Community, What is the LGBT Community? The LGBT Community or GLBT Community is also known as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,and Transgender. And LGBT are supportive people, organizations, united by a common culture and social movements. These community generally celebrate pride, diversity, individuality, and specially sexuality. The gay community is associated with certain symbols especially the rainbow or rainbow flags.…

that it is socially acceptable to be a Dee or Tom in within Thailand’s culture and society. Furthermore, the “Kathoey” or Ladyboy represents a male who simply carries out the identity of a woman . Many people interpret this as transgender. The terms Ladyboy and transgender are not used often in Thailand, as they can be considered quite insulting to some due to what they may imply therefore, people tend to use Kathoey. I have discovered over the years of growing up in Thailand that Kathoeys are…