Transphobia

An intersection of the spheres of oppression called transphobia and misogyny, transmisogyny is “the negative attitudes, expressed through cultural hate, individual and state violence, and discrimination directed toward transwomen and trans and gender-nonconforming people on the feminine end of the gender spectrum”…

“transitioning” phase, they encourage entire groups of fans (many of them being millennials or younger) to become more open-minded. For example, Megan Rapinoe, an openly gay soccer player for the USWNT, fights for the the elimination of homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia through her support for Athlete Ally (an organization seeking to end LGBT-phobia in sports). In an interview at Cornell, Rapinoe makes it clear that she will not stay silent on issues of LGBT…

In the current state of our society, as well as in much of human history, an individual’s gender and sexuality, in addition to their expression thereof, determine much of their social standing. Men and women face vastly different realities, as do cisgender and transgender people, and heterosexual and non-heterosexual people (to whom I will hereto refer as queer individuals, as a reclamation of the slur). Exactly how separate are gender and sexuality, though, and how do they correlate? While…

was assigned to them at birth, are susceptible to harassment and violence on campus because of sanctioned rules and social conditions that restrict them from using the bathroom of their choice. Discrimination against transgender individuals, or transphobia, is a force that some students face every day, and public bathrooms are often the scene of transphobic acts against transgender students. Debates on transgender rights concerning public bathrooms have risen in the recent years, and an…

To most people, it may be difficult to fully understand the many obstacles that trans people face on a daily basis. They face huge disparities in almost every facet of society. Employers and landlords may gainsay people jobs and homes because they don't conform to gender norms, which is licit to do in 31 states. The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS) found trans people are approximately four times as likely to live in extreme impecuniosity compared to the general population.…

Reading Response Synthesis: The two themes in this week’s reading, “Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools” are, the negative role of high school teachers and administrators towards homophobic and transphobic bullying and the impact Canada’s multicultural society has on homosexual and transsexual individuals. The reading surprised me when they talked about the negative role that teachers had when it came to homophobic and transphobic bullying in high school. Teachers are…

In today's society, many people create a crime and hope not to get caught: not because of the consequences but because they are fearful of the severity of the consequences. Their first thoughts when committing a crime are mostly along the lines of other people will never catch them. The guilt then ceases for a split second, then crawls back towards them, reminding them that they are indeed caught the moment they did the crime. The Crucible is exactly that and more, going over many people’s…

This has gone too far now with the gender bender game. I’m a little sick people identifying different than male or female. Thanks to Bruce Jenner now that he is Caitlyn it’s just gotten worse now. When I heard about Bruce changing genders, I thought that was impossible to do. After Bruce became Caitlyn and abandoned his athletic legacy and becoming a TV personality on the Kardashians. Now there is a majority of Millennials that want to be something else than male or female. Bruce Jenner change…

which is just a combination of the two. Misogyny describes the hatred and discrimination of women and the viewpoint that traits that are feminine are for no particular reason inferior to masculine traits, rather than the obvious, which is equal. Transphobia encompasses not only a phobia just because people are different but also that they identify as a different gender and express it. Thusly, transmisogyny is a combination of both where these are expressed through sometimes extreme levels of…

CJ Vondal WGS 200 The session I was able to go to was Trans-Identities and Narratives with the speakers being Adelynn Mrosko, Janet Martin, and Xanthe Kuhn (all through one of them was not able to appear, not sure which one). It was interesting since the views were from a Male-to-Female and I believe a person who was nonbinary. They both had their own view on the Transgender community, which they put out before they begun to speak. They even stated that everyone has a different experience…