Transgender

Chapter One Did you know that more than 50% of transgender minors have admitted to attempting suicide? How about that 82% of transgender youth feel unsafe or scared at school ? These statistics are high, too high. Transgender is defined as being a person who identifies with a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary. Cisgender is defined as a person who identifies with the gender identity they were given…

For transgender Americans, the fight for equality is not over. While the recent changes in laws affecting LGBT individuals have done a great deal to improve the situation, the fact remains that a portion of the population is still denied the most basic of human rights. Something as simple as using the bathroom has become the new battleground for civil rights, as many states attempt to pass laws that restrict bathroom usage to the gender on someone’s birth certificate. While the number of…

polarizing and frightening time for all trans people, as many realize the hard and unsafe road that lies ahead. The first feelings of solitude come when a trans person comes out to their family or friends. Many do not understand what it means to be transgender, and more often then not their reactions to their child or friend being trans is negative. Unfortunately, most do not have the benefit of a supportive family so they are left with two options; stay with their abusive and transphobic…

know what transgender (a person whose gender identity does not correspond to that person’s biological sex assigned at birth) meant. Early on he wanted to wear what the boys got to wear when going swimming, though he wasn’t allowed because his mother explains to him that he was a girl. Struggling with self-conflict is hard enough, it is even harder when you struggling with gender identity issues on top of that. We all have something about ourselves that other…

is figuring out what to wear.” Many consider it stunning progress that we have successfully integrated transgender women into the pages of our largest magazines and onto our television screens. However, an identity for transgender women was never established outside of the traditional female archetypes that support the perpetuation of Capitalism. Dozens of transgender women, especially transgender women of color, have been murdered in the past year. Not only is this because widespread…

Did you know that approximately 41% of transgender people attempt suicide? This number is only approximate because so many transgenders are still “in the closet” about their identity, so in actuality, this number is a lot higher. There’s no reason for this number to be so high, because they are people too. They are not “those things” or “it’s”, they are simply another human being trying to figure out their identity. Many cisgendered (or people identifying as the gender they were assigned to at…

When raising a transgender child it is a very delicate process, much like any child with a disorder, it will take time and patience. Raising a transgender child isn’t something anyone is prepared for. The question is,” how can a parent be sure they are making the right decision for their child” (McCloskey 291)? Most parents already know when their child is showing different gender schemes that are not of the social norm. In the case of Brandon Simms, his mother Tina Simms states that before…

Several people have misconceptions about what transgender means. The first thought their brain goes to is drag, which is not even an element of it. Transgender is when somebody is born into what they recognize as the wrong body. They feel as if they identify with another sex rather than their own birth sex. This essay will focus mainly on only one side, the trans-masculine side, which is usually assigned female at birth people identifying as transgender. It will talk about physical and mental…

or the love that was lost. For others this could be letting part of themselves die with them. This could mean not living the life they knew they were always meant to live. These regrets are often found in the transgender community where the word gender finds a new meaning. Leelah, a transgender girl from Ohio, stated in her suicide letter “I’m never going to be happy. Either I live the rest of my life as a lonely man who wishes he were a woman or I live my life as a lonelier woman who hates…

In the article “Serving Transgender Youth: Challenges, dilemmas, and clinical examples,” the Gender Management services-Disorder of Sexual Development Program (GeMS-DSD) was brought to attention for its information on practices of ways to serve gender variant youth, particularly transgender youth. The GeMS structure is structured yet flexible according to the needs of the patients by a multidisciplinary team for individualized care. The main steps taken by the team include psychotherapy to aid…