Gender Discrimination And The Transgender Community

In the late 1950’s to mid-1960’s, the transgender community faced discrimination such as physical and verbal harassment, denial of social spaces, and alienation in the media. This matters to us today because transgender individuals are still existing and are a part of our human population today. The community is also still struggling to find their representation in the media and in society. The transgender community is still facing a wide array of types of discrimination, from nasty looks to denied access of education. Gender identity should not be taken into consideration when determining another person’s worthiness of respect.

Have you or anyone close to you ever been discriminated before? Multiple types of gender discrimination has always been an issue and it’s time for it all to come to an end. Gender discrimination is discrimination that is based on someone’s gender or sex. Many people have faced it in different ways. I am researching the harm that is caused to different genders, the way women don’t get paid the same as men, and how LGBT people are discriminated in the workplace.

Oppression is prolonged unjust and cruel treatment. The LGBT community has faced oppression for a very long time. Transgender individuals face oppression in a different way and are often overlooked by LGBT groups because they are finding themselves in a different way. Transgender people are treated cruel and even murdered because of their choices and decisions. These individuals are facing oppression based on themselves but also in ways such as poverty. With discrimination comes the difficulty to keep a job and a safe work environment. This group is one of the main groups forgotten about and misunderstood. Instead of facing oppression for one reason these individuals face cruel treatment just walking down the street. It is impossible

The group I will be researching is Transgenders. Transgenders have been being oppressed since they first began to open up about themselves. They have always been judged based on what’s seen and not who they are. Transgenders are human beings like any of the rest of us, they just rather have a different gender than the one they were born as. This group will overcome oppression.

Our nation is facing a pressing issue that no one can find an adequate answer to. How do we deal with the many problems that are faced when dealing with transgender individuals? These people have somehow snuck their way into our schools, workplaces, military, and public restrooms. They should be condemned for the actions that they take against us when they argue how we should treat them.

Doesn’t the constitution state that all men and women are equal? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals experience too much discrimination, whether it is at work, in school, or even from law enforcement. One of America’s biggest problems is discrimination. Though there have been many improvements in the way society deals with discrimination, there is still a long way to go. Police officers, parents, teachers, students, managers and coworkers should give the equal chance for individuals who do not live the same life as them. People have so many reasons as to why they do not deal with homosexuality but never truly take the time to know why people are homosexual and should understand that being LGBTQ is perfectly fine.

Homosexual people are not seen by other people such as, straights; in addition, society's ideas treat them differently in marriages, workplaces and makes them have unequal partnership benefits.

Transgender Oppression is the oppression of people whose gender expression, gender identity, and/ or sex identity does not match the expectations of the dominant norm or society. Being a transgender means to “denote or relate to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender”. There are facilities that supports Transgenders and LGBT’s like the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

The purpose of this paper and the research therein is to explore the concepts of discrimination towards a particular group of individuals-transgender individuals. The reasoning associated with this is due to the increasing rates of discrimination and the multiple facets thereof associated with this particular group of people. The articles being used (five in total) provide an introspective point considering the negative impact associated with discrimination against transgender individuals and the resulting effects towards not only themselves, but also their relationships, their mental health; and their

The United States and England are two of the most modernized countries in the world and share several similarities, one of which being that the justice systems of both countries play their role in the victimization of transgender inmates. Vicky Thompson was a transgender woman, who was sentenced to 12 months in an all male facility in Leeds, England. Within the third month of her sentence, Thompson committed suicide after her lawyer was unable to get the justice system to recognize Thompson as a woman (Kale, 2015). Furthermore, in the United Kingdom, transgender people are required to apply for a gender recognition certificate in order to have their legal gender, which is stated on their birth certificate, changed to the gender which they

All the articles stated in the annotated bibliography, each of these articles give a background on transgender community, and what a member of a transgender community go through. Moreover, these articles also give a set of exhibits on transgender discrimination, an argument for the transgender discrimination and a method showing the different type of surveys that showed the evidences of transgender discrimination. These articles can give a more detailed information about what type of discrimination the members of transgender community go through either during the hiring process, or while they are or were employed at the place of employment. Additionally, these articles discussed different criticism and reaction good and bad toward people of

I wondered how internalized bias transgendered individuals have influence their experiences. I would imagine it would complicate things. What I mean by that is we can possess pre-reflective biases (e.g., racism, sexism, and classism) about our own community. For instance, a transgender individual may not agree with a negative bias intellectually, but holding a negative feeling about transgender people and act as if he or she does not support one’s own community. This can happen in pre-reflective manner.

Ever since the anti discrimination protection over transgenders have been out up there has been no reports on any attacks in public bathrooms

My understanding of gay and transgender discrimination, through the lens of Matrix of Domination, is that a black transgender or gay male or female will face more oppression and discrimination, than a white male or female. Therefore, we must increase the advocacy for achieving equity for marginal groups and help stop individuals and institutions that force their personal notions and cultural ways through laws or regulations, to oppress the individual (Brown,

Are transgender communities getting the rights that they deserve? The answer is no. Most states have no laws that protect against the LGBT community. However, there are several states that have implemented laws that will accommodate the community with the same rights that a person who does not struggle with their sexual identity. “California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia all have such laws” (“Transgender People and the Law”). The most common confusion that falls under these anti-discrimination laws is whether it protects transgender men and women in using the appropriate restroom for their claimed status of sexual identity. On the flip note, many people feel uncomfortable to be sharing the restroom with a person who was born a man, however, identifies herself as a woman and vice versa. The problem is not who is using the “proper” restroom, the problem is people who are demanding greater rights than a transgender individual.