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Critical Analysis of “Sisterhood is Complicated” by Ruth Padawer In her essay, “Sisterhood is Complicated”, Ruth Padawer illustrates complications and triumphs women and transgenders experience while living in the same society. Padawer goes into detail about how the women feel towards the transgenders and how the transgenders feel being in a college centered around women. Often throughout the essay, she talks about how women make up Wellesley College who want to have the greatest power and strength, by defying social norms and creating their own place to learn. This has been the motto of the college since its beginning, but now, there are transgenders who are entering the college as women, just to gain entry into this environment.

The main setting of Trans-Sister Radio is within the small town of Bartlett, Vermont. The primary focus is set on Dana, a chromosomal-male college professor who is in the process of transitioning into the female gender. As a male, Dana is well-received by her community, even though she is perceived as strange and effeminate. She forms normal romantic relationships with women, has a fulfilling career, and is admired by those surrounding her, however she still feels incomplete. Unfortunately, what is missing from Dana is not externally noticeable, it is intrinsic happiness. From a young age, Dana suffered from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder that causes individuals to experience serious distress due to frustration with the sex and gender assigned at birth (APA, 2013). To alleviate the traumatic pain that has burdened her for decades, Dana makes the bold decision to partake in complete gender reassignment surgery. Trans-Sister Radio challenges the prototypical ideologies of character growth, morality, and relationships through its descriptive insight on transsexuality and thus gender.

All in all, the documentary The Middle Sexes covers many controversial topics. Some of these topics include the biology of middle sexes, the dangers of being a transgender, and societies outlook on transgenders. With much analysis, I’ve realized that this film has too narrow of a perspective on transgenders and middle sexes. The restricted perspective prevents the audience from being

The reading in this assignment made me understand and appreciate the lives of others. Transgender are just like you and me. They have the same goals and inspirations. However, their hardships are more drastic then normal. I got the chance to be educated on trans 101 with this assignment. I have taken so much away from these readings. It has helped me be more understand of what transgender go through. Having the opportunity to have the two articles side by side to make my notes and analyzing. Finding the connections between the two and disconnect from society to transgender communities.

After reading chapter 3: "Prejudice and Discriminations" and as well the article "Transgender African-Americans' Open Wound: ‘We're considered a Joke’”, I have a better understanding of the challenges that certain group undergo due to prejudices and discrimination that exist within their own racial group and other groups of our society. Although the LBGT community has made its social conditions a little more better, there is still those within their group that are even more marginalize, this is the case of a African-American transgender. African Americans transgender face twice as much prejudice and discrimination. They battle prejudice and discrimination from their own racial group and from society because of their skin color and their gender

This article hugely impacted me because I realized what it’s like to be outside the box and it gave me a perspective on something, I wasn't against, but didn’t fully understand which fascinated me. My highschool subscribed deeply to the cisgender binary. “There is no such thing as ‘real’ gender-- there is only the gender we experience ourselves and the gender we experience other people to be. ”(Serano). I noticed much like the gender role I had subscribed to, that I am now trying to veer from, the binary creates an even bigger role that people shouldn’t have to subscribe to. Trans people are maligned or misunderstood, systematically pathologized, sensationalized and marginalized (11,Serano) much like I was, inside the box, and no one should have to feel like that. This selection gave me a whole new outlook on life and systematic oppression that the box

Sara's confidence in my abilities as a social worker sparked self-belief. With supervision, I designed a presentation on diversity with an emphasis on transgender populations. At the weekly staff meeting, I facilitated a group discussion to avoid attacking John. The presentation was successful, mitigating many staff members' confusion with transgender populations, including John's. The presentation proved helpful for discussion and improved the staff's understanding of

There are a lot of people in the real world who are just ignorant about transgender people. We need someone to educate the world on this. An essay written by an 11-year-old transgender child named Sadie Croft has been circulating in social media, bringing its clear call for transgender equality to wider attention. The essay, titled "Sadie 's Dream for the World," envisions a time when the discrimination and stigma that transgender people face on a daily basis at every age will be over. Sadie writes, "It would be a better world if everyone knew that transgender people have the same hopes and dreams as everyone else. We like to make friends and want to go to school. Transgender people want to get good jobs and go to doctors like they are exactly the same. It really isn 't that hard to like transgender people because we are like everyone else" (Michelson, 2013). According to Huffington Post, Sadie began transitioning in kindergarten socially, and her moving words come on the heels of President Obama 's historic inauguration speech, in which he called for gay and lesbian people to be treated like anyone else under the law. It is so encouraging to see a transgender youth coming out at an earlier age and showing the world who she is. Her stories are piling up, and awareness is in the atmosphere. Sage has an awesome family, who supports her and gives an inspiration for other parents out there less ashamed of finding out their child is transgender. We still have a long way to go in

In Leelah Alcorn’s suicide letter she wrote, “I want my death to mean something.” Leelah Alcorn was a teenager who was forced to undergo conversion therapy after she came out as transgender because her family did not accept her. Leelah wanted to stop the practice of conversion therapy because of its harmful effects. After Leelah’s passing some states proposed bills to ban this practice called “Leelah’s Law.” Her story made me realize the impact one person can have and anything that involves giving back to the community or others can constitute as community service.

In the article Agnes Goes to Prison Authenticity, Transgender Inmates in Prisons for Men and the Pursuit of “The Real Deal” (Jenness & Fensternmaker, 2013), deals with transgender men living in the California Prison System. The lifestyle and daily struggle to survive as a woman trapped in a man’s body as well as emotional consequence of such a lifestyle is traumatic at best. These men not only have live as women in prison but they have lived their lives as women in their communities as well.

Leslie McMurray makes everyone she talks to give her a hug. That’s partially because she’s a hugger, she says, but also because McMurray, a former radio personality who now advocates on behalf of HIV patients, believes that hugging itself can be a political act. During a talk she gave to Hewlett-Packard on behalf of the Dallas-based nonprofit Resource Center a few months ago, McMurray explained that when people hug a transgender person, they’re less likely to discriminate against

A hero’s home, where they’re familiar and comfortable, is the start of their hero’s journey. Laverne Cox’s home life and family support shaped her into the hero and role model she is today for the transgender community. She didn’t always have her family’s full support. She often felt like a disgrace and an embarrassment to her family. These thoughts lead her to attempt suicide at eleven years old. In an interview, she describes, “During puberty, the attraction for other boys got really strong… I imagined that my grandmother was looking down on me and that she knew what I was thinking, because she’s in heaven” (Cox). The day she thought her grandmother was looking down on her with disappointment, was the day she swallowed a large

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of sexuality in the context of heterosexism and other related terms in the clinical setting using Horkheimer's Critical Social Theory (1972) in the patient-illness experience to socially critique social oppression experienced by LGBT patients and implement inclusive, patient-centered care. The concept of sexuality is defined along with related terms relevant to this topic to distinguish and understand the relationship between each other. Using Horkheimer's Critical Social Theory as a framework to implement nursing care by challenging and critiquing the rigid, traditional concept of heterosexism and how that oppresses LGBT patients which can lead to negative health outcomes. According to Morrison

The writer will analyze the potential challenges there is when communicating with Lorella. Will describe the clinical countertransference in working with patient Lorella for the first time. Then, will discuss the literature there is when interviewing the patient and ways on how to engage a patient to a conversation. Will explain different tips on how to communicate with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community in or to make them feel comfortable in the first session. Finally, will talk about applying cultural appropriate strategies to engage and build rapport with the patient. Pointing out potential strengths and challenges and how they can be use in other to build a bond.

My client for this week’s assignment is a transgender women named Gwen. Gwen has come to the counseling session because she has agreed to share her story with others in the hope that her story will help and inspire other transgender individual who are struggling with their assigned gender. Before beginning her transition from male to female Gwen describes herself as a very different individual, one who was going through the motions of life, but finding little to no pleasure in her daily activities (Queer Theory in Action, 2011).For example, Gwen daily routine before the transition was work, go home, eat and then bed. She would use sleep as an escape from her unhappiness with her life. Also, before Gwen began the transition she was very depressed