Transgender

The transgender community is often the target of much hatred due to the lack of understanding and lack of acceptance of what being transgender means. It is believed by many that it is a choice to be transgender, rather than a genetic mistake that takes place during pregnancy and at birth. Transgender males and females are faced with inequalities that prevent them from living lives that the cisgender community would deem normal. For example, deciding on which bathroom to use as a transgender…

1. Disability- Upon analysis of the term disability, Tod Browning’s film “Freaks” immediately comes to mind as it portrays the stark reality of how people with disabilities were viewed within the American society at the time. “Freaks” was critical in the early 1900’s, because the general public perceived this group of people as inferior humans with inhumane qualities. This film was pivotal in humanizing people with disabilities, and teaching the public the classic lesson that judging a book by…

Desires are one of the main causes of pain and happiness. In the article Transgender Identities: within and beyond the constraints of heteronormativity, Angie Fee conceptualizes desires to often be shaped and laid out as a path to follow but are mediated by the limitations of the design (265). The biological sex that is determined at birth does not always correspond with the gender it is designated to. In the movie Laurence Anyways, Laurence was a man about thirty years old when she finally…

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) college students are often faced with some form of sexual prejudice, sexual harassment and/or discrimination (Rankin, 2005). Name calling, verbal harassment, ridicule, and rejection are stressors that can increase risk for depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and even suicide (Zubernis & Snyder, 2007). Sexual minorities have a tendency to fear expressing how they might feel because they have to worry about their sexual orientation or…

Stones essay shines a light on a topic that at the time would be considered a radical gay-lesbian statement. Mainstream lesbian and gay activists in fear of disrupting the shaky liberal base during a critical period of a merger were suppressing transgender issues. Stone also believes sex and gender should not be blurred into one. Stone states, “transsexuals commonly blur the distinction by confusing the performative character of gender with the physical “fact” of sex, referring to their…

In the United States today there are 1.6 to 2.8 million homeless people under the age of 18 and 20 to 40 percent of them are members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Intersex Asexual (LGBTQIA) community. Society has begun to open up to the idea of being transgender, gay, lesbian, or bisexual with role models such as Lavern Cox, Caitlyn Jenner, Jane Lynch, and Neil Patrick Harris. When kids see people in the media being accepted, it allows them to identify with these role models and…

of the inequality and systematic role that portrays in the U.S. society. For that, some people experiences gender transitioning. What is gender Transitions? Between both male and female is generalized as “Genderqueer” Neither man or women. Many Transgender and Queer communities today are not unusual but outside those communities the reality of a white guy having long prideful lesbian past can be bit disorienting. Rather than give a long winded explanation I want this cultural confusion of anger,…

has been less discrimination towards them. And as a way that cisgender people are trying to stop discrimination is by changing the way they speak and write to them. Cisgender people have started to alter pronouns when addressing people who are transgender, who are transitioning, or who don’t identify as a specific gender. They have started using different pronouns to avoid using the wrong pronoun and not come off as being disrespectful. Society has begun replacing feminine and masculine pronouns…

In Dean Spade’s book Normal Life, healthcare justice and systemic issues regarding gendered treatment and access to healthcare are discussed in depth, with a focus specifically on the effects of injustice and inaccessibility to transgender and intersex individuals. Normal Life was extremely personal in terms of the subject matter, which made it difficult to read through; however, I found myself nodding along as he outlined and went into detail on the various mechanisms surrounding the…

over the past few years. The rights and protections of these individuals began to increase under laws created by the Obama Administration. However, the new Trump administration has began to threaten these rights by taking back the protection of transgender students by revoking their right to use restrooms that match their gender identity. The Trump administration offers the reason for their revoking of these rights by stating, that these protections were only revoked because it “lacked extensive…