A 24-Year-Old Transgender Case Study

Hue is a fourteen year old African-American and Asian transgender female to male, self-referred to the agency for depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations on transgender suicide in the media. Hue is a 9th grader in high school, and he describes satisfactory academic progress. He lives with his mother, and visits his father in the summer in Michigan. Hue reports three friends he is close with and one being his best friend for eight years. Hue’s mother does not approve of his friendship with his best friend due to the verbal abuse in the past, but Hue reports that the disagreement was in the past and they have rebuilt their relationship.

The lack of education in medical schools regarding transgender-related care results is a shortage of provider willing to perform transition-related care. Therefore, there is simply a lack of providers able to treat transgender people, making it difficult for transgender people to receive care. Transgender people report having to drive countless hours in order to reach providers for hormone treatment or report having to leave the country in order to receive genital reconstruction surgery (Puckett 7). Unsurprisingly, 29-63% of male-to-female transgender persons in urban groups report unsupervised hormone use (Roberts 984). This is a serious point of concern considering hormone treatment has dangerous side effects including

The biggest factor that needs to be understood, addressed, and dealt with is the rate of suicide of transgender students. Transgender students in high school and college are more likely to attempt suicide at a point in their life if they are not offered gender appropriate programming, housing, bathrooms and locker rooms, counseling, health care, and having name changes on records and documents. There have been countless times that I have gone into the women’s restroom, because I am not fully transitioned and I know that I do not pass as well as I would like to, and I get a mean look or someone tells me I’m in the wrong restroom. I have been at work cleaning the restrooms and a women asks me to leave so she may use the restroom, because she

In Trauma in Transgender Populations: Risk, Resilience and Clinical Care Mizock and Lewis explains factors that put the transgender population at risk such as working in the sex industry or being targets of hate crimes. (Mizock & Lewis, 2011, p. 336). This article also sheds light on some strategies and types of resources that can build resilience in transgender people. Mizock and Lewis gave a thorough description of what it means to be transgender, transsexual, transman etc. as these terms can often be misused and misapplied to this population. This article highlights some common traumatic experiences shared among the transgender population and how transphobia is contributing to this problem. (Mizock & Lewis, 2011, p.336). I feel this

Stresses the importance of transparent and impartial report of all the member states within a fixed deadline and make sure the government works for the well-being of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community throughout the state;

A man and a woman get pregnant and decide that they are going to learn the sex of the baby as soon as they can. Neither really care the sex of the child as long as the child is healthy. However, the man would not mind a boy who can carry on the family name, while the woman sees visions of pink. During the sixteenth week of pregnancy, the doctor preforms a blood test and the parents find out they are having a boy. How excited they both are. They prep the room by painting it blue and get linens for the bed in a sports theme. The baby shower comes and everything they registered follows symbolic interactionist - items are blue, sports, dump trucks, etc. After months of

The way I dress tends to leave people a bit…confused. For example, when I was younger, when I would go to the grocery store, the salespeople would always refer to me as a boy, saying things like, “can you tell that boy to put his items on the counter?” Since I have been able to dress myself, I have been wearing boys clothes because I identify as a cross-dresser. I feel more comfortable and more like myself…but this is not generally accepted in society, especially in Bulgaria. According to the national climate survey on transphobia in Canadian schools, between 2007 and 2009, “74% of trans students reported having been verbally harassed about their gender expression”. And what’s more, “37% of trans students reported being physically

It wasn't until Walter sought help from the Liberty Counsel that he was finally successful, by circumventing the court system entirely. Through them, he had learned that California’s transgender law no longer requires court orders to change gender designations on driver’s licenses, social security cards, birth certificates, or passports. Matt Staver, president of Liberty Council, argued that Walter was denied his request to have his birth certificate reverted to its original gender because activist judges in California were more concerned about upholding an ideology that promotes gender confusion.

One group of feminist that is often overlooked is the transgender feminist. A transgender woman is a person who was assigned the male gender at birth, but decided that they were actually a different gender on the inside. There are people who are against the transgender feminists because they believe they are receiving benefits from male privilege while being able to live life as a woman. Transfeminism believes in fighting against transphobia so that hopefully one day transgender people will be seen as a normal part of society and not different. The group of transfeminist are not only asking for the help of other transgender people, but also for the help of non trans women.

Addressing the issue of transgendered people in a community that has been a key element for the various movements and social groups that fight for the rights of the minority in recent decades is also to address the issue of the paradigms on which citizenship is based and built, have had special relevance when dealing with the sexual rights of people. All human beings regardless of their sex, religion or sexual orientation have the right to the recognition and respect of their sexual and gender identity.

Shortly after, Brian confessed a desire to crossdress. This graduated into transgender fantasies, which included anal & oral penetration via prosthetic penis while dressed as a woman.

Imagine this morning you woke up as the opposite gender. You would go about your day as normal, insisting that you were the same gender you were the day before despite the fact that everyone else insists that you are the opposite gender which you woke up as this morning. Maybe eventually you would go along with it and say that you were the opposite gender even though it feels wrong to you. Maybe you would continue to insist otherwise even though no one seems to listen to you. This is only the first of your problems though, as you would soon realize. You would run into many other problems throughout your day. For example, which bathroom would you use? How would you deal with being stuck in a body that just feels wrong? How should you dress yourself now? These are only a few of the problems transgender people face every single day, in addition to the bullying, discrimination, and non-acceptance from other people.

In the first scenario, I think it is important to be as open and supportive in regards to the transgendered teacher. The employee’s gender identity does not have any reflection on his job performance or work ethic. Thus, if Jay has taught at the university for five years without issue, his gender identification should not change the fact that he has been a good employee. As the Dean, I would treat all of my employees fairly and evaluate them based on their work performance, not on their gender identity. Foremost, I would research the laws in my state concerning the legalities of transgendered employees. The laws are ever changing and it is imperative that all businesses stay up-to-date on the legal precedence. After I had gathered my

The exact cause of transgender identity is not known, but current theories point towards biological influences such as prenatal hormone levels. We do know that nothing a parent does or does not do can cause a child to develop a transgender identity. Nothing can be done to cause, prevent or reverse a gender identity that does not match a child’s assigned

Equality of people does not mean acceptance. Civil rights legislation may bring some equality but the full inclusion of transgender people goes beyond their tolerance and acceptance. People may often only tolerate something if they think that it is wrong. To believe you tolerate transgender is to mean that it is bad or immoral. You are able to put up with or tolerate the bad, but the effect of this shows the thing to be bad to begin with. However, if there is no problem about something like transgenderism then there is nothing to tolerate. People do not use the word tolerate for something that they enjoy or want. They put up with something that they would in most cases stay away from. Tolerance is not the way to achieve transgender rights.