Analysis Of Transgenderism In A Boy's Life

There has been much discussion about transgender adults in recent years but lately there has been a shift to the discussion of transgender children. Growing Up Coy (2016) is a documentary about a 6-year-old transgender. The documentary follows Coy and her family through a time where Coy’s parents fight for her rights as a transgender individual. This film discusses childhood gender-variant behavior, discrimination and prejudice, and proposes many questions about one’s opinions of being transgender, gender identity, etc.

She takes pride in her well maintained home and cooking expertise. Her schedule is full of running her husband’s errands throughout the day and having the breakfast, lunch and dinner completed that he requests. She finished two years of college courses at a local community college and would love to finish gaining her degree in nursing. The client would love to finish school, but her husband tells her that a degree is unnecessary since she should only be relying on him. Her husband’s attitude makes her feel insufficient and does not feel like a positive role model for her daughters to look up to. The client’s self-esteem is very low and the only time she feels pretty or worthy is when her daughters tell her they love her. She is at a point in her life where her self-worth is nearly destroyed, a place she never would have imagined before marrying her husband.

One can liken my transgender journey to being on a seldom used bumpy old state highway with very few service stations along the way. I was scared to take the route, to begin with, and it took three-quarters of my lifetime to choose to make the trip, having enjoyed nicely paved modern highways for all of it, so why would I? One good reason is that the better highways with their smoothly rolled asphalt and all the convenient well-lit rest areas didn’t take me to any destinations I wanted to reach. So at age 62, I packed all my undeniable inclinations, my dreams, hopes, and desires and chose a ribbon of bad pavement, that went on and on into the horizon for as far as the eye can see and only two lanes, to boot. For sure, my side of the road seemed to go on forever, but the other lane just as frightening. It took me

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them” this quote written by Aldous Huxley accurately describes the impact parents have on their children. When parents aid their transgender children in transitioning into the opposite sex they are committing child abuse; changing sex is unsafe, indecent, and permanent. Over the course of a month, I have been a slave to the library. I have read over 30 articles on transgenderism; The basis of my opinion comes from well-sifted through research. The definition of child abuse is the mistreatment of a child by physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect, especially by those responsible for his or her welfare. Parents of transgender kids are neglecting what they need

Scholars have been critical of the medical establishment’s and state’s involvement in constructing and policing of transgender identity. These kinds of pressing issues have occupied the small existing literature. There is not much information and studying what is being done on transgender in traditional areas, family studies research, such as their dating behavior and formation of intimate relationships in adulthood. There is little research on the issues around being parents, their children’s experiences with having transgendered parents, as well as relationships in the family as a whole, and relationships in work and school.

Some believe parents need to be more accepting of what gender their child chooses to be. In Linda DiProperzio’s article, she quoted an associate professor of Women 's Studies at the University of California named Jane Ward, who stated, “Raising a child under these strict gender guidelines is denying them an entire world of colors--they become tracked into the characteristics of their biological sex.” (Par. 7) Moreover, it is stated that limiting the views of a child can, and will, drastically change them and their future self. Not allowing children to be creative in what they choose limits their mindset. It is even worse that these narrow-minded ideas are thought up and enforced by the

The film, Boys Don't Cry, Kimberly Pierce's brilliant work of 1999, is the true story of, Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, played by Hillary Swank, who created a male identity for herself. Brandon was born in 1972 and died at the hopelessly young age of 21. The actual story takes place within the last two weeks of Brandon's life, in 1993. The movie, a dramatized documentary, was released in 1999. Brandon is a transgendered individual; he was born a female, but feels that he would be happier living as a man. She leaves her brother and hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, where everybody knows her as Teena, to start a new life as Brandon. Brandon ends up in Falls City and his short life, as a man, begins. It is in essence, the epitome of

On its web site this week, Target announced, "[W]e welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity. ...Everyone deserves to feel like they belong."

Grossman, Arnold H. Anthony R. D’Augelli. “Transgender Youth: Invisible and Vulnerable.” Journal of Homosexuality. Vol. 51, No. 1 (2006): pages 111-128. Web. 25 June 2015. Arnold H. Grossman, a professor of Applied Psychology at New York University, and Anthony R. D’Augelli, professor of Human Development at Pennsylvania State University, did a study of Transgender youth from ages 15 to 21. The study was designed to determine the factors that affect the youth, who either identify as transgender or their gender does not fit the normal gender descriptions. Focus groups were used as nonthreatening environment to examine the youths’ social and emotional experiences. The study not only provided insight on their emotional and social experiences but

In an article “'Why did God make me like this?': Parents share incredibly moving film about having a transgender son and why they decided to let him change gender and become a boy at age five” by Snejana Farberrov discuss how one family embraced a daughter transgender by cutting her hair and using male pronouns. The girl who name is Ryland told her parents, she was a boy and from then on more and more they started to treat Ryland as a boy. She told her parents at a very young age that she was a boy.

In the documentary Growing Up Trans, we hear the real stories and explanations of how kids felt with both their sex and gender. Kids would give interviews on how they felt being stuck in a biological body that they did not agree with. Throughout the movie, we see children expressing how they do not want to conform to the ideas of their “gender”. Throughout the movie, we see the ideas of a gender that is socially constructed. People buy their little girls babies, Barbie dolls, princess costumes.

The practice of medicine in the United States sustains the marginalization of transgender people (Catalano et al., 2007). When Christine Jorgensen’s sex change was announced in 1952, many men consulted doctors to pursue successful transitions as a form of self-expression to affirm their sexual identities (Meyerowitz, 2013). However, doctors relied on their own authority to diagnose transgender issues and did not have any proven medical theory to assist the men with transitioning (2013). In addition, transgender issues in the practice of medicine are viewed as a mental disorders or illnesses (Spade, 2013) that are curable through medical transitioning (Catalano et al., 2007). Moreover, Spade (2013) discusses the difficulties in securing low cost medical care. Spade is not a textbook case of gender identity disorder, so he is having issues proving that he is a male at all times based on his lived experiences to his counselor, which undermines his transgender identity. Furthermore, the juvenile judicial system perpetuates the medical assessment of transgender people as suffering from an illness to be treated (Ware, 2013). “Uncontrollable” transgender youth, who do not have access to information about their sexuality (Sears, 1991), is placed in the juvenile judicial system by

The case study written by Keith K. Schillo of SUNY College at Oneonta gives a brief argument of how the nurture theory could possibly be the cause of gender identity based on the struggles one boy had to endure during his life. The case study goes on to describe how a twin boy went from being a boy to a girl and then back to being a boy again back in 1965 to determine if gender identity was based solely on the nurture theory, or if nature was the cause. Due to the inability of both boys being able to urinate properly, it was decided to circumcise them in hopes that they could live normal healthy lives, but due to the use of unconventional methods, one boy was severely mutilated and forced to live without a penis. Based on the nurture theory of development, one psychologist from John Hopkins University believed if the child was completely castrated and reassigned gender, the parents could raise him as a girl and that she would grow up healthy and happy. While he was treated as a female, he still maintained the desire of being male and acted accordingly by refusing the many variables given to him such as clothing or activities that often reflect female instead of male characteristics. After many years of being trapped in a girl’s body, he underwent a double mastectomy to remove his breasts, and had a penis reconstructed so that he could once again live freely as a male. After all this, he eventually married and lived a happy life until one day he was consumed by

A 24-year-olds bladder bursted after he was drinking a lot of alcohol and then jumped in the water. They said it was like dropping a balloon on the ground, because his stomach was fun and it exploded. He went to the doctor a few days later complaining about pains.he couldn't use the bathroom himself, so they had to stick a catheter in his bladder, blood and urine came out. He had a CT scan, and surgeons operated on his abdomens.

In 2006 Jazzy Jennings (then 6) was the youngest publicly documented child to be iden-tified as gender dysphoric; from then on in it wasn’t all easy goings for young Jazzy and her family as they faced schools denying the girl the right to dress how she wished. Alongside this they also denied her the right to use the toilets of the gender in which she identified herself as just because they thought it was the wrong choice and they were thinking of the other children.