Transphobia

DiscriminationDirect discrimination is taking a step which you know will exclude or disadvantage a person or a group of people. For example, treat someone less favourable because you are someone with a protected characteristic than others.Indirect discrimination is doing something which causes someone to be disadvantaged in a way which isn’t always immediately obvious. For example, putting a protected characteristic at an unfair disadvantage than others.Harassment is a behaviour which has the…

Gender is how humans differentiate other humans from each other; boys love playing with toy cars, girls love the color pink and playing with dolls. These stereotypes along with many, many more, define gender; but what happens when a little boy likes playing with dolls more than his toy cars, and as he gets older, realizes that he identifies more with being a girl? Growing up being told you should act a certain way and like certain things that correlate with your assigned gender can be very…

Reading about the hardships that Coyote has gone through has made me reflect on how I view the world and how privileged I am. Unlike Coyote, I have never experienced transphobia and have never been verbally or physically assaulted in a bathroom due to the way I look. It is sad that these instances of injustice are still happening all over the world, but I think Coyote is successful in describing how being someone that does…

Earlier it was stated that Human Rights Watch was tracking twenty-one murders of trans people in the US in 2016, but they only have access to so much data. There is no national data base of transphobia related crimes, as many states do not consider it a hate crime and even among those that do only ten states keep records of trans based hate crimes (Stotzer, 2009). Therefor any research into trans based crimes either needs to focus on the ten states…

In Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech, he envisioned “a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls [would] be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers” (personal communication, 1963). This speech was spoken during a time of segregation and discrimination between White’s and African Americans within the United States. Despite the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, White’s still sought…

Throughout history it is evident that inequalities and disparities are part of health systems and society. Even after all the success of activism, such as the work from the human rights movement and campaign, inequalities and disparities are still evident today. Especially within minority groups, such as LGBTQ* (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) individuals – this is not to say that LGBTQ are the only categories when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identities, thus it is…

Explain the characteristics of gay and lesbian intimate partner abuse. Then thoroughly discuss explanations for the failure/reluctance of gay/lesbian victims to report domestic violence victimization to police. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a serious yet often ignored issue facing LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities. Until recently most studies of partner violence have been almost exclusively of heterosexual partners, with only limited information about prevalence/incidence of partner…

three. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) claims that acts of physical and sexual violence towards transgender individuals are more socially acceptable due to less extreme daily acts of discrimination such as homophobia and transphobia. This daily stress and discrimination referenced in the minority stress model may also indicate the lack of compassion towards individuals of marginalized gender expression or sexual orientation when faced with sexual violence. The NCAVP also…

The media plays an important role in most people’s lives, which is why it should be more diverse and include more genders. Entertainment should be easy to connect to—to put oneself in a virtual world that may be completely artificial but feels natural. Music is supposed to connect with individuals on a personal, often times on an emotional, level; video games are meant to make everyone feel like a hero; television shows, commercials, books, and magazines are supposed appeal to and represent…

Deciding on which population to use for the immersion project took a few different turns; at the beginning this writer had thought maybe indigenous people of North America. Unfortunately, well maybe by fortune, the cultural activities specific to that population slipped by. Having had some internship and volunteer experience with the LGBTQ community, at the Rainbow Community Center in Concord, California this writer thought this would be an ideal community for this project. On November 7th…