The Event Of Becoming Summary

The LGBTQ community is one the communities that has been fighting for their right till the present. The L from in the LGBTQ stands for Lesbian, the G for Gay, B for bisexual, T for transgender, and the Q for queers. The term gay is meant for males that are only attracted to other males. The lesbian term is meant for females that are only attracted to other females. The bisexual term is meant for male or female that are attracted to both males and females. A transgender person can also be gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc. The term transgender includes a lot of others term; it is an umbrella term, therefore there is not one definition to really agree on (Bukhari, S., Mushtaq, H., & Aurangzaib, S. (2016), p.93). There are many more names or term that are included in the community. There are many communities in the United States that are accepting toward the LGBTQ community, and there are many communities that make it harder for the community to come out. LGBTQ community are more likely to be accepted in communities that are more comfortable to talk about sex and LGBTQ topic. The more it is talked about the more people have their own opinion, and think about what exactly is bad or good about the topic. The psychosocial and sociological aspects plays a role in how today’s society feels about the community, and how the community has been treated in the past till this day. For some people to be able to support the LGBTQ members, one has to try to see past their huge beliefs in gender

Identity is an essential necessity for humans to demonstrate the distinct individual. A person’s identity may take time to develope as the person acquires new interests, influences, and comprehension of the surrounding people. Authors such as Adrienne Rich and Gloria Anzaldua write about the struggles persistent in identity. Rich is identified by her gender and race by other people, while Anzaldua is defined as to what a Mexican American women should be. As a Mexican American, Amelia Mendoza, my best friend, encounters the strains of identity.

There are many ways to determine and interpret one’s identity. Identity is not static; rather, it is an ongoing image produced over time. Both internal and external forces contribute to the meaning of an individual’s identity and who they are. Jewelle L. Gomez briefly explains this through her piece “The Event of Becoming.” Like an onion, there are layers to a person’s identity. The process of identity is both complicated and messy, as an ongoing battle between society and the individual act as two determinants. To say that LGBT*/queer identities are “socially constructed” might mean that the different values and ideals of different communities are what build or create them. This does not mean that identifying as LGBT*, queer, etc. is what

What defines you? Is it the many tiny, wriggling spiders that could potentially be inside your body, the experiences you might have had in Istanbul, your list of hobbies which may or may not include crochet, or is it something a bit more trivial, such as where you come from? Who are you? Take a moment to reflect on yourself. In an essay concerning the argument of identity, Richard Rodriguez forces his readers to analyze themselves, particularly during the high climb of immigration in America today, because with the rising amount of cultures and ethnicities finding a home in this country, there really is no “black and white” answer. The question of identity is the key idea in Rodriguez’s Blaxicans, further expanded upon by careful word choice,

One rarely hears of identity being a topic of question. Humanity does not get involved with identity unless it concerns them directly. Upon recent interviews with my peers, I surveyed many people with identity confrontations. Identity confrontation meaning, conflict with trying to figure themselves out with still having to fit in with what society will except. These certain people not knowing, but desperately trying to figure out who they are. One of my interviewee’s happened to be homosexual, and she expressed her struggles with her identity daily. She always felt as if she had an attraction to females, but never understood why. During our interview, she explained how she was always so bothered about the acceptance

Bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, asexual; these are all examples of different sexualities, and identities. One of the biggest problems with society today is that many people are resistant, sometimes violent, towards the unknown. People identify in many different ways, as many different things. Some ways of life do not allow a lifestyle straying from straight men, and straight women; being taught this from a young age for an entire lifetime will strike fear and hatred into the hearts of those who encounter otherwise. Other cultures, such as the Navajo people, celebrate these differences with love and overwhelming support. Individuals portraying both as their given sex at birth, and as the opposite sex (cross-dressing, referring to themselves with a name generally given to the opposite sex, using different pronouns, etc.) are given special titles (Two

For a long time I was not aware of the concept of sexual identity. When a boy likes a girl they develop a romantic connection, with the condition that the girl also finds the boy attractive. For a long time I considered that this was a classical receipt for romantic relationships and I could not separate romance from sexuality. The way I was raised, the religious precepts that have shaped my personality, the gender roles or the media and my relationships have contributed to who I am in terms of sexual identity.

According to Ms. Paige, “Generally, people want to see you as male or female. Nothing in-between seems to be acceptable.” However, there are currently 63 genders which people around the world may identify as. Furthermore, according to Kinsey’s Seven point continuum, people may not even be solely homosexual or heterosexual. According to him, there is no clear-cut distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality. This is because his scale relies on both sexual behavior and feelings of attraction. Therefore, even though one might think of themselves as heterosexual, they may be ambisexual (not solely homosexual or heterosexual). As seen in this aforementioned case, the society someone is placed in may heavily influence their identification. Additionally, there seems to be a lot of misinformation about biological sex. Although many people in western cultures will state or acknowledge the presence of two sexes, this is also not true. As a result of various hormone imbalances prior to birth, a person may have primary sex characteristics that do not fit into one of the two previously mentioned categories. These individuals are termed intersex, as a result of their incomplete sexual differentiations. Ultimately, there end up being six common karyotypes, with XX and XY being the most common.

In the movie Higher Learning, the character Kristen Connor, a white female freshman at Columbus University. Kristen deals with various issues throughout the semester such as handling the trauma of being a rape victim, exploring her sexual orientation and finding her own voice. She handles the trauma of being raped by Billy by joining the student group Taryn, a lesbian junior, invited her too and later telling her about the rape. However she rejects Taryn’s suggestion of reporting it. She doesn’t let the trauma consume her and faces it by telling her story on stage at a rape awareness rally on Halloween.

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has never received as much attention as they are right now. Much of this attention is stemming from this population struggling to obtain the same rights given to the remainder of the population. The LGBT community faces many challenges in their personal system, social environment, and then in the public system. In working with the LGBT population, the social worker needs to examine how the individual views themselves, not only through sexual identity, but as an individual. We need to look at the prejudices and condemnation they have encountered which may have led to further uncertainty or confusion.

Forming identity is a life-long endeavor for most people. In childhood, the act is involved mostly with family and school friends. As a person matures to adulthood, more external factors influence identities such as social status and position, education, employment and love relationships. In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the reader will find that the two most influential aspects of identity formation are societal definitions of a person’s race and how one defines themselves through intimate love relationships. A person engaged in identity formation under either of these circumstances could result in either a positive experience that builds confidence, self-esteem, and self-love, or it can completely destroy the person’s psyche or permanently separate her or him

“In ordinary language, at least, one can use “identity” to refer to personal characteristics or attributes that cannot naturally be expressed in terms of a social category, and in some contexts certain categories can be described as “identities” even though no one sees them as central to their personal identity.” (Fearon, James D)

Gender identity is basically the concept that gender is not easily divided into two classic genders as is the popular belief. Gender identity is how someone feels inside. Someone’s gender identity can align with the sex they are assigned, it can align with the sex they were not assigned and it can ever align with no recorded identity before.

What is Gender identity? Gender identity is the concept of him or herself as a gender. They may identity themselves either as a male or female or even neither. “Factors may include inherent or extrinsic environmental factors (Ghosh, 2017). “ A person may define themselves a particular gender, however, the reasons which follow may arise difference in opinions. Gender identity is usually discussed with issues relating to a dysfunction in both adults and children. Gender identity is not to be confused with gender role or gender orientation, as each term may be used diagnosis.

Throughout today’s society, there are multiple views and opinions on whether or not there are more than two genders or if gender is even just a social construct. Each person has their own individual preference on how they express their gender. Therefore, we can no longer assume what someone identifies as just by looking at them. Over the years I have learned more about gender expression and gender identity as I gained friends who were homosexual as well as transgender. I feel as if I was introduced to all of these ways of life at a young age, therefore I can, in some ways, teach those who are uneducated and do not know what to think. I have personally never really thought about the different gender identities I could label myself as but as of right now I identify as a cisgender female