The Transgender Phenomenon Summary

She takes pride in her well maintained home and cooking expertise. Her schedule is full of running her husband’s errands throughout the day and having the breakfast, lunch and dinner completed that he requests. She finished two years of college courses at a local community college and would love to finish gaining her degree in nursing. The client would love to finish school, but her husband tells her that a degree is unnecessary since she should only be relying on him. Her husband’s attitude makes her feel insufficient and does not feel like a positive role model for her daughters to look up to. The client’s self-esteem is very low and the only time she feels pretty or worthy is when her daughters tell her they love her. She is at a point in her life where her self-worth is nearly destroyed, a place she never would have imagined before marrying her husband.

“God doesn’t make mistakes.” A very deep argument, but a very flawed one. If God did not make mistakes, why are children born with an array of abnormalities? If God were perfect, why did he make us so imperfect? Aren’t we supposed to be made from his image? Or is this phrase a mere attempt to give a blind eye to a reality that faces us today? In Spanish, there is a saying that goes, “there is not worse blind man than the one that does not want to see,” and indeed this applies to many people. But we are not here to engage in an endless debate of who is right and who is wrong, the fact of the matter is that we have a problem at hand and we need to resolve it. We no longer are dealing with just grown men and women when it comes to transgenderism, and this puts us as a society, and more exclusively the parents of the kids, in a whole new playing field.

Fifty years ago, nobody could ever have imagined how widely accepted transgender individuals would be in modern times. Countries all around the world had only ever known about the social distinction between men and women, which is known as ‘masculinity vs. Femininity’. However, now it is much more complex than that; as transgender and gender confused individuals are more widely accepted, it has become more of a case of sex vs. gender. “Sex is the biologically based distinction between men and women centring on sexual organs, while gender is the social and cultural rendering of masculinity and femininity.” (Oakley, 1972) And even though transgenders are accepted into society they still face inequalities such as not being accepted into a particular community, ostracised by families and friends,

Gender is one of the most socially ingrained social constructs. The rigid enforcement of gender is harshly controlled by the medicalization and what I will refer to as the construction of the illness of gender transgression. I postulate that there are two forms of gender transgression: a general rejection of gender norms and a rejection of these boundaries in manners that do not fit into the dominant script of gender (i.e. deciding to transition). When someone “transgresses” the boundaries of gender in this latter way, I postulate, they are inculcated both by society and by the medical community to conform to a normative trajectory of transition. This relationship between a socially constructed identity to a molecularized body – a body

Through examining the ways intersex individuals are treated in a medical setting, one can see how science only allows binary bodies to be created. Crawley et al. (2007) discusses intersex individuals and the standard treatment of intersex children, being to alter their ‘abnormal’ genitalia to resemble one of the two genders. This has become the normal treatment as if this is necessary, but the only threat the child is in danger of is not fitting perfectly into the heteronormative standard of correct genitalia. Because surgical intervention proves we alter and change one’s sex, it becomes difficult to claim that sex and gender are solely biological, when clearly one’s gender and sex becomes largely altered the moment they are born into society. Anne Fausto Sterling, outlines her concept of the five sexes, explaining that intersex is a term used to describe any individual that doesn’t fit into the narrow categories of male and female. She explains that the same process that was in play in the Middle Ages is

A 24-year-olds bladder bursted after he was drinking a lot of alcohol and then jumped in the water. They said it was like dropping a balloon on the ground, because his stomach was fun and it exploded. He went to the doctor a few days later complaining about pains.he couldn't use the bathroom himself, so they had to stick a catheter in his bladder, blood and urine came out. He had a CT scan, and surgeons operated on his abdomens.

The organization provides therapeutic residential treatment to veterans and others, who are subjected to drug addiction, are homeless or have been driven to poverty.

If I had to pick a concept that was most interesting, I would choose gender differences. The video we watched about transgender kids was very eye-opening and educational; I never realized there were transgender kids who were so young. The idea that gender dysphoria is a result of our society was something I had never considered before; learning about the group in Africa that has a 3rd 'gender' of feminine males made me feel like we as a society try too hard to put everyone into boxes, and that's why transgender children grow up feeling like freaks. The video we watched also showed what a huge difference having a loving, supporting family has; the kids whose parents made them hide it seemed miserable, whereas Jazz (whose parents loved her unconditionally and allowed her to be open about the

Currently the dispute has given rise to two dichotomous (and therefore co-constitutive) factions within the transgender community: the “true transsexuals” (also known by the sometimes derogative “truscums” or “transmedicalists”) and the queer-theory/social-approach minded “tucutes”. The former ideology understands transgenderism primarily through the transsexual standpoint as pivoting on a profound biological/psychological disorientation that can only be remedied through medical intervention; conversely, the latter claims that given that gender is contingent on exterior social indexes, changeable external influences such as culture, and internal understandings relevant to the individual alone, it can only be described through a framework of liminal

One group of feminist that is often overlooked is the transgender feminist. A transgender woman is a person who was assigned the male gender at birth, but decided that they were actually a different gender on the inside. There are people who are against the transgender feminists because they believe they are receiving benefits from male privilege while being able to live life as a woman. Transfeminism believes in fighting against transphobia so that hopefully one day transgender people will be seen as a normal part of society and not different. The group of transfeminist are not only asking for the help of other transgender people, but also for the help of non trans women.

Imagine this morning you woke up as the opposite gender. You would go about your day as normal, insisting that you were the same gender you were the day before despite the fact that everyone else insists that you are the opposite gender which you woke up as this morning. Maybe eventually you would go along with it and say that you were the opposite gender even though it feels wrong to you. Maybe you would continue to insist otherwise even though no one seems to listen to you. This is only the first of your problems though, as you would soon realize. You would run into many other problems throughout your day. For example, which bathroom would you use? How would you deal with being stuck in a body that just feels wrong? How should you dress yourself now? These are only a few of the problems transgender people face every single day, in addition to the bullying, discrimination, and non-acceptance from other people.

Argued in Eckert and McConnell-Ginet (2003:15), living up to our gender is learning through a life-long process of socialization. Further supported in Kulick and Schieffelin (2006:352), one’s gender emerges over a lifetime through interactive process in which one accepts, rejects, or modifies the cultural and gender norms they are socialized in. These two arguments supported the idea of this essay’s research question in which cultural and social factors do contribute to gendering an individual, and in turn implicating the creation of a boundary that exclude transgenders from the society.

The topic being covered through the course of this paper will be an examination of how Western society’s view of the perceived gender of individuals will affect attitudes towards those in the Transgender community. It is the belief that due to gender norms regarding how individuals of the binary sexes should look, that there will be an increased level of prejudice and nonacceptance to those who may not conform to these physical ideals. This will be based on the ideas brought forth by Feminist theory, specifically using the article “The Socially Constructed Body: Insights from Feminist Theory” as the primary source (Lorber and Martin 2011; 249-273).

My friends would have an Introduction and call themselves Social Butterfly before transgendered was even a name this was used to describe someone that is popular. Often times those peoples are friendly. It is not always used to describe popularity alone; it could also be describing someone who is friendly to strangers. Social Butterfly is a person who’s good in socializing with others.

Growing up in Panorama City, I have not seen any transgender movement rallies or have a personal relationship with a person who identifies as transgender. After watching Major!, I learned most transgender women are afraid to come out because of inevitable violence they will experience.