Nomi Marks: A Trangender Woman

Why Mary Surratt should have not been executed. On the night of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Mary Surratt, who was guilty and hanged for taking part in Abe Lincoln’s assassination. Mary Surratt was guilty, but should not have been hanged. Mary was guilty for lying to the police, and knowing of the kidnapping plot. In source, one, it states that Mary Surratt was guilty for taking place in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

A few weeks ago I was required to read Feminist Intersections in Science: Race, Gender and Sexuality Through the Microscope by Lisa H. Weasel and the article opened an avenue for me to explore new ideas. Weasel’s paper works to investigate the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality with science. She supports her argument with a story about Henrietta Lacks, a black woman who had cells stolen from her body. After violating the simple rules of consent, the scientists then proceeded to suggest that her cells represent a separate, inferior race. Some people even linked the HeLa cells to HPV and implied that Ms. Lacks “slept around”. Reading about this particular form of exploitation made me quite uneasy. Contrastly, reading Lisa Weasel’s work

“Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls”, says Aaron Devor. Women and men have always been seen as totally different people, but is it right to say that women are different from men. Many research findings support these gender differences. The range of critical response to the topic of the gender is clearly discussed in the reviews written by Aaron Devor “Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes,” Deborah Blum “The Gender Blur,” and Mariah Burton Nelson in “I Won. I’m Sorry”. Marian Burton Nelson, a former Stanford University and professional basketball player and author of sit book on gender identity. Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize Winning professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Aaron Derov, a sociology professor at University of Victoria. All three articles have similar and different opinions, but they are all about gender differences. While Devor and Blum talk about the origin of gender differences in men and women, Nelson focuses more on strong women; all three articles focus their discussions on aggressiveness, gender behaviors, and male domination.

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 film represents the main protagonist Nola all the way down to her three lovers, with each representing a different personality trait that is not necessarily race identifiable. Lee develops a new form of cinema by creating a new aesthetic. Lee details the double standard that exists for Nola by showing her deviating from social norms. She refuses to live by anyone else’s rules and resists conventional ideals such as marriage and monogamy. This film portrays a possible explanation of racial dynamics within gender and sexuality. If roles were shifted for men and women through various aspects focusing on mise-en-scene, editing and narrative conventions.

In Susan Stryker’s book “Transgender History” she states in today’s society the word “’transgender’ is a term that has come into widespread use only in the past couple of decades, its meanings are still under construction” (pg. 9), where when you look up the word “transgender” in the Merriam Webster dictionary it says “of, relating to, or being a person (as a transsexual or transvestite) who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth”, and states that this particular use of the word was first used in the year 1979. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is attempting to educate and provide the public with a range of resources in order to educate them on issues that transgender and gender nonconforming people face in the form of workplace discrimination, to securing identity documents, to finding socially knowledgeable healthcare, to family and parenting issues, and most importantly to advocate for full enclosure in and with equality.

Gender reveal parties have become a way to celebrate the arrival of a new child for parents. Guests adorned in pink or blue attire await as the excited parents reveal what the child is going to “be”. Depending on the color inside the cake or balloon, the child’s life is predetermined based on gender normative stereotypes. These will dictate on his or her name, the activities that he or she is allowed to partake in, and the opportunities available to the child. This socialization of gender expression has led to a dominant culture or public of cisnormativity. Warner talks about publics not in general like the concept of “the public”, but they are a multitude of publics that can only be reached through rhetorical texts (). This means that if

Gender is defined as being male or female as defined by roles, social status, and attitude. The perception of oneself and what characterizes gender identity. Included in gender identity is hormone and behavior interaction, along with the examination of psychological, biological, and environmental influences on sexual separation.

Transsexual Phenomenon, and within months Johns Hopkins University opened the first gender identity clinic in the United States to diagnose and treat transsexual individuals and to conduct research related to sexuality. Within ten years, more than forty university affiliated gender clinics existed throughout the United States including programs at the University of Minnesota, Stanford University and Case Western University (Stryker, 2008).

His mother looks confused, and Capheus remembers that he didn’t explain that Nomi is transgender. He knows that his mother was likely taught that people like Nomi are repugnant, but he knows his mother well enough to also know that she will not care. “Nomi was named Michael when she was born. Her mother doesn’t accept that she is truly a girl.”

Bug has not seen Nomi since she started her transition so he is surprised when he sees her and his first reaction is to sexualize her. When Amanita steps in he asks Nomi, who she is. Upon learning that they are in a relationship he makes a surprised face, but one can also see in it that he thinks that lesbians are attractive. He is not directly told that what he said was offensive, Nomi however makes it clear with her tone that she thinks that is inappropriate to talk about them in that way. Not only do men often fetishize and sexualize women, as shown here when Bug finds out that Nomi is a woman, but they often do it even heavier with lesbians as they are often degraded to mere sexual objects to please the desires of men who think that two women having sex is even more attractive.

Throughout the ages there have been many great characters, such as Anakin Skywalker, Harry Potter, and Katniss Everdeen. They are three very different characters, however there is a throughline among all three, characteristics they all possess. There are six characteristics in particular that they all share. These characteristics can be summarized as; the mask, the wound, the crutch, the true self, the achilles heel, and the shadow self. The particulars of each characteristic may be different, but every character has those six character traits.

What is gender nonconforming? Is it the same thing as being transgender? The answer is no. According to GLAAD (2017), gender nonconforming and transgender are umbrella terms, therefore, gender nonconforming people do not always identify themselves as transgender and not all transgender people are gender nonconforming. Gender nonconforming is a term used to describe people whose behavior and/or appearance is different from prevailing expectations of masculinity and femininity (GLAAD, 2017). Transgender is a term for people whose gender expression and gender identity are different than the gender they were assigned at birth (GLAAD, 2017).

Today people live in an increasingly visual world, where we are engaged not only by texts but also by images. We are influenced by internet, magazines, advertisement, games, picture books, film, anime, comic books and so many more. Those media are using images to communicate, entertain and gain profit. It has shown an increasing usage proportion of visual or graphic representation and less text. We are now living in images dominated world. Berger (1972: 10) explained they are important because images or visuals can actually attach to somebody’s consciousness stronger and longer.

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