Trans Bodies Trans Selves And Pride

Watch the video "Growing up Trans" and read the articles thoroughly. Then use examples and evidence from these sources along with your textbook for full credit. Failure to use these sources will result in a zero.

Discrimination is treating someone differently, often unfairly, because he/she is a part of a specific group, class or category of people. For instance, a girl named Wu Qing in China was discriminated against and could not find a job because how her body was a bit chubby and the scars in her face from an accident in her early childhood. Even though she was kind and used to be straight-A student, she had no friends. Now, she is looking for selling her kidney in order to pay the plastic surgery fee. Discrimination can change a person from innocent to evil is an important theme in the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. Even though

This classification is constructed by discourse with the objective of recreating hegemonic paradigms and perpetuating current power relations. Defining Women and Men as universal categories disguises the interests it serves. Therefore, anything that is defined as natural or universal should be studied critically. She writes, “Signification is not a founding act, but rather a regulated process of repetition that both conceals itself and enforces its rules precisely through the production of substantializing effects” (185). The assumption that there is a pre-discursive body with a pre-determined sexuality and gender sustains oppression against subjugated and marginalized subjects. Disconnected from the body, she suggests, gender can include more than two versions. The analysis of these concepts--or deconstruction-- provides tools to the socially oppressed to fight against the existent social

Initially, the author supports his ideas using the arguments that we need to handle innumerous types of prejudice daily. He cites himself as example of one who had experienced prejudice for being homosexual and Jew. He knows how prejudice works and how it is present in the society in many different ways. However, there are several other reflections the author uses to sustain his points of view other than his own experiences. For instance, one of the reasons for his explanation about the exacerbate prejudice in the United States is the fact that one is free to

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

Watch the video "Growing up Trans" and read the articles thoroughly. Then use examples and evidence from these sources along with your textbook for full credit. Failure to use these sources will result in a zero.

In chapter seven, of Social Inequality Forms, Causes, and Consequences, gender identity and sexual orientation are discussed. The chapter discusses transgender;

Since the beginning of time, gender has always been divided into two categories, either male or female, with few instances that have stepped in between. As civilization has evolved, it has began to learn that this division is a lie, and that it is disgusting, disgraceful, hurtful and untrue at its rotten core. This is because this “division” has never counted for anything but a label and a set of roles as a stereotype, which was unjustly assigned at birth in a societal attempt to conform each and every unique soul into a shape that they cannot fully fit. There should not exist such standards and expectations that do not account for anything besides what one's body has to say, without asking the mind of the thoughtless vessel known as the body.

(2008, January 22). Sexual Prejudice: Understanding Homophobia and Heterosexism, Biphobia and Transphobia. Retrieved March 21, 2015, from http://www.changelingaspects.com/Articles/Sexual Prejudice.htm

In addition, a historically misrecognition constructs homosexuality as the deviant. According to Fraser (1998: 141), misrecognition is a ‘status injury’, which marks certain identifications as the deviation from a normal condition. For example, from a heterosexist’s perspective, HIV is assumed as a disease that is diffused between gay men, which they have been targeted as the key group to prevent HIV (Rosengarten, 2009). Besides, gay men’s bodies are labelled as ‘virus carriers’, and it links with the norm of moral degeneracy. Indeed, to associate gay men with HIV carriers conveys an injustice of their status, which can be seen as the social patterns of evaluation and interpretation (Fraser, 1998: 143-144). Young (1990) uses homophobia as the

Heather Sykes is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and specializes in educational studies and physical education (Sykes, 2011). Sykes is published in a variety of academic journals for her research in critical analysis of gender, sexuality and fatness in physical education as well as sports sociology. Her book, Queer Bodies: Sexualities, Genders, & Fatness in Physical Education is a heavily research-based book about key issues in physical education. It was published in 2011 by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. based out of New York, New York and despite being published by an American company, the bulk of Sykes’s research comes from Canadian citizens who identify as having queer bodies. Throughout the text, Sykes uncovers various problems within physical education surrounding queer bodies such as harassment, humiliation, and being an outcast. She challenges the traditional values and curriculum used in physical education courses, and provides insight to better serve queer bodies in physical education.

This is a common belief that’s been bred into us as a culture but our growth has ruled this out as a because women who are not in a position of a helper are excelling just as well, if not better.

Her constant use of tying metaphor to common perception allows the reader to dig deeper and question their own and their communities psyche surrounding this subject. Biss is able to weave together so many aspects of our society into a cohesive whole that explains the metaphor of immunity vs. inoculation, self vs. nonself. For example, she is able to bring forward common current controversial topics such as gender and racial equality and easily tie it into the main theme of the book. For example: “…A 1912 definition of biological individuality as the quality of being ‘rendered non-functional if cut in half,’ Donna Haraway observes that this requirement of indivisibility is problematic for…women… Their personal, bounded individuality is compromised by their bodies’ troubling talent for making other bodies… One of our functions, as women, is to be divided” (125-126). This unique perspective on a reason for sexism is related to back to the misconception in our society that our bodies are independent of the environment around us. Thus, substantiating the misinformed “self vs. nonself” idealogy.

The passage below from The Feminist Local and Global Theory Perspective Reader suggests that biological terms of male and female are not self-determined but pre-assigned. Once a person is assigned an anatomical category (in this case only being male or female) what they do with this information is how they are pre-determined to act. This cycle perpetuates the reoccurring gender roles that have been inevitably causing both males and females to be oppressed. Consequently, this is unlikely to change since until recently this is how things have always been when it comes to gender and sex. Throughout the reading the topics of both sex and gender are introduced on differently levels of complexity.

In the reading, Judith Lorber discusses the social construction of gender. She talks about “performing gender” as a way to fit into society and describes how gender construction begins at birth and has to be either reaffirmed or redefined. Mock