The Pros And Cons Of Transphobia

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.

Transgendered persons can potentially lose their position in the military. Although other political leaders disagree with president’s trumps proposal. I disagree with the proposed actions that transgenders should be banned from the military, based on material and nonmaterial components. The terms Heterosexism, cultural relativism, feminist and standpoint theory will be used to support my decision.

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

Transexclusionism is the active omittance of transgender people, which routinely comes from feminism. Transfeminism advocates for trans women and beyond while Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism and Queer Theory both have comparable instances of transphobia. The notable case of Gwen Araujo and controversy of trans exclusionism in the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival regarding womyn-born womyn, but this still compares to trans exclusion by feminists and queer theorists.

Hamilton I believe won this argument, mainly because what he proposed was the only smarter way to pay for war debts in the country. He believed it would be great for the nation to pay taxes in order to clear the debts. Jefferson highly disagreed with this because it was the main reason we succeeded from Britain in the first place.

A large issue facing trans women today is the violence perpetrated against them. In 2003, fourteen murders of trans people were recorded in the U.S, most of them being trans women and people of color. (Bettcher, p. 280) By mid-October of 2015, twenty-one trans women, who were also mostly women of color, were murdered in the United States, and this number exceeds the amount of trans murders in 2014. (Wilkinson, “You Know What Time It Is”) It is important to remember that these are only recorded instances that do not count the murders that went unreported. The amount of these murders is increasing as more years pass. This violence is rooted in the idea of trans women are seen as deceivers due to the vulva-vagina-uterus anatomy being seen as the “normal” anatomy of a woman. This is explained in Talia Mae Bettcher’s “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers”, as she outlines the “rhetoric of deception” throughout the article. In the article, she states “frequently connected to this appearance-reality contrast is the view that genitalia are the essential determinants of sex.” (Bettcher, p.281) Because of this, trans women are put in a double-bind to either “disclose ‘who one is’ and come out as a pretender or masquerader, or refuse to disclose (be a deceiver) and run the risk of forced disclosure, the effect of which is exposure as a liar.”(Bettcher, p. 283) The normalization of this anatomy being linked to femaleness puts added pressure on trans women to “prove” themselves, or else be

On the contrary, to victimizing trans men, we can see how we treat trans men in comparison. Moreover being a man in our society is the best situation one can be in. Society sees trans women as the epitome of not being a man. However, they are also less of a woman because they are not biologically women and can never be even if they get a sex change. The reason for this is because they are pretending to be women within society. We inherently use masculinity and femininity to treat people differently and in particular behavior. One way we can see this is by comparing how we act towards trans men in comparison to trans women. In Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook research we can see that trans men are more accepted within males because trans

Next, Trans people, in general, feel victimized when they are judged, shunned, humiliated and excluded from women-only places because they think that they will feel accepted if they look passable to society. “Denying trans women access to spaces for women can be incredibly isolating, perpetuating the mental health struggles that plague members of the trans community''(Sophia Banks, CBC News, 2017, ‘Banning Trans Women From Women-Only Facilities Punishes Them For The Sins Of Others’). Trans women should receive the same treatment/rights as ordinary women should because trans women should be included in women-only spaces and should feel accepted just as ordinary women

This study assessed individual structural forms of stigma as risk factors for suicide attempts among transgender adults. Internalized transphobia was analyzed through a combination of results such as a 26-item scale including four dimensions: pride, passing, alienation, and shame. State-level statistical structural stigma was operationalized as a composite index. Outsourcing a multivariable logistic generalized estimating equation models assessed associations of interest among an online sample of transgender adults (N= 1,229) representing 48 states and the District of Columbia. This is a helpful source for current stigma at multiple levels in order to reduce the vulnerability of

On June 26, 2015, same-sex marriage was legalized in every state across the United States by the Supreme Court. Before this time, support surged for the LGBT movement (also known as the Gay Rights movement). The T in the abbreviation LGBT stands for Transgender. A person who is transgender feels as if their gender is different than what was assigned to them at birth. A transsexual is a transgendered person who feels the need to undergo sex reassignment surgery or a person who already has underwent said surgery. The LGBT movement typically portrays transgenderism and transsexualism as normal expressions of human behavior and gender identity. However, according to most modern psychiatrists, it isn’t a normal expression of behavior. Still, people in the LGBT community have petitioned to get the American Psychiatric Association to declassify Transgenderism and Transsexualism as mental illnesses. They equate its definition as a mental illness to being political discrimination similar to whenever homosexuality was considered a mental illness by the APA. Both transgenderism and transsexualism should still be considered mental illnesses because they meet the general definition of a mental illness, are clinically similar to other mental illnesses, and have high levels of risks in several aspects.

On page 28 in the book it is discussed how some gays and lesbians are against trans and feel that their issues are not important because they find them to be freaks because they choose to represent a different gender than they are born with. I found this very interesting because I never really thought of gays and lesbians being against trans. I guess I just had this stereotype in my head that all gays and lesbians are supportive of trans people. I feel it is easy to associate and assume that they are supportive of one another because of the LGBTQ movement. I really do not understand why there would be some gays and lesbians that do not support the trans movement. Both groups share the fact that they are both trying to represent their true identities

“...they cannot stake their claim to dignity as transgender people by trampling on mine as a women…. Many women and I know, of all ages and races, speak privately about how insulting we find the language trans activists use to explain themselves.” For some women who have listened to the comments transgenders make, they find it shocking and are amazed at how far they are willing to go. To hear what they say about how women should be, it is not that easy. Transgender people have started this whole new concept about how women are/should be viewed.

In a lot of places around the world more and more people are coming out as “Transgender.” The term transgender means that the person’s gender identity does not correspond with the gender they were assigned as having at birth. From personally having a transgender boyfriend I have since realized that these people experience a lot of discrimination in and from society. Many people simply just do not understand what the term transgender means and they see it as someone just “wants to be a man” or “wants to be a woman.” While there may be people who present it this way, it is more so that the individual just “feels” different, and “feels” as if they are “in the wrong body.” Some people experience this feeling at a young age as my boyfriend did in his elementary age. We live in a world who put these people down for being who they truly are, and no human being wants or needs that.

Throughout American history, numerous influential social movements arose, such as the civil rights movement, the youth movement, and the animal rights movement. However, one of the most prominent and rapidly changing movements in the past year, 2015, has been the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement, the advocacy for equal rights between heterosexual and LGBT individuals. In this year, the LGBT movement made many crucial achievements. Starting off the year, in February of 2015, the Human Rights Campaign began a movement named the People’s Brief. The purpose of this campaign was to gain nationwide support for the LGBT movement. The group ended up gaining over 200,000 signatures which was many more signatures than any other brief ever given to the Supreme Court. The transgender side of the LGBT movement also had major successes in 2015. After Caitlyn Jenner came out, the movement changed drastically. It sparked many transgender people to come out to the media and discuss the inequalities and violence that trans people face in society. However, perhaps the most important victory for the LGBT was the legalizing of gay marriage across the country. This event happened on June 26, 2015 when the supreme court declared that denying two people the right to marry, regardless of gender, is unconstitutional. Even though just a few accomplishments were named, many others occurred that also had major impacts on the LGBT movement (“Best”). Although in recent months the

The third topic is homophobic think the things that matter is sexual orientation because I feel like this country is very against people’s sexual orientation. I can say that I am not a homophobic because I think if you love someone whether it is the same sex as you or the opposite sex from you should be able to love them without being discriminated. Many people in the world may be against gays, lesbians, and transgender because they are uncomfortable and are not educated enough. I know for a fact that I unaware of the transgender community, I am not against them in any way I just do not understand it nor I am educated enough on it. So when people ask me about transgender I found it strange because I never experience it or seen a transgender