Transgender And Transsexual Rights Campaign

Americans are still divided on transgender rights and identity. In a new study from Pew Research Center, 46% of respondents said transgender said transgender people should be required presumably by law, to “use the public restroom of the gender they were born with”, 51% of those surveyed said the opposite- that transgender people should be able to use the bathroom, of their choice. Forcing people to use the bathroom that they were born with can be humiliating, and that’s why we need to come together and have gender neutral bathrooms.

With the establishment of these gender identity clinics, and the financial backing of philanthropist Reed Erickson, a transsexual man, the health care needs of transsexual people gained increased attention and support. Despite this new attention, the clinics used Benjamin’s model of “true” transsexuals. This differentiation between “true” transsexuals and other gender variants became a serious and highly important diagnostic decision as gender affirming surgeries were irreversible. This resulted in many transsexual individuals to be denied access to hormones and surgery. Specifically, transsexual men encountered difficulties, as transsexuality was primarily seen as a male-to-female only transition. In fact, during the late 1960s the United States leading UCLA Gender Identity Research Clinic debated whether trans men should be considered transsexuals. Many trans men themselves did not label themselves as transsexuals as they only knew about other transsexual women (Meyerowitz, 2002; Beemyn, 2014).

Transgender activist can have several roles according to one’s need that can empower individuals to become free. Liam from Luna, identified as a woman, but was force to suppressed his true identity around his family. Liam was living a double life around his family, during the day he was trying to fit his father’s strict gender ideal of masculinity by trying out sports per his father request and worked repairing computers. In the night he transformed into his true identity as Luna. He achieved temporary happiness and the illusion of being free at night. Although his sister, Regan, supported him emotionally, she rejected the idea of him being transgender. However, everything changed when he encountered Teri Lynn a transgender woman, who became

When people want to be theirself, doesn 't everyone deserve that chance at that much freedom? According to the national LGBTQ Task Force transgender people are not that lucky when it comes to the demographics of social media. On CNN website there 's an article that discusses how transgender people are twice as likely to be unemployed and four times more likely to live in poverty compared with the general population and these disparities are much greater for transgender black and latina woman said Emanuela Grinberg writer for CNN.

The group I will be researching is Transgenders. Transgenders have been being oppressed since they first began to open up about themselves. They have always been judged based on what’s seen and not who they are. Transgenders are human beings like any of the rest of us, they just rather have a different gender than the one they were born as. This group will overcome oppression.

In Abby Ellin’s article, “For Transgender Women, An Extra Dose of Fear,” the experiences of Abbie Paige, along with a variety of other transgender women, are discussed. Most notably, it has been asserted that as a result of being transgender, not only do these individuals face an increased risk of being subject to physical danger, but they also must conform to what society deems as absolute. For example, even though certain individuals may not be cisgender, or have a gender identity that aligns with their sex, they still must use facilities which their surrounding society deems appropriate. Additionally, as a result of the lack of acceptance and equality in the political economical hemisphere, people who drift away from their assumed gender roles may face extreme difficulties when attempting to get healthcare services.

In the documentary Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She, the prejudices towards transgender and intersex individuals, as well as the fear they experience because of these prejudices, are underlined. A transgender individual is one that identifies with a gender that is not associated with their biological sex. An intersexual individual, however, is one that is born with indefinite sexual anatomical characteristics, making it difficult to identify as a male or female (Croteau & Hoynes, 2013). In addition, this documentary emphasizes the impact of cultural expectations on sexual orientation and gender identification.

Between the Sexes is a compelling narrative. Through several anecdotes, it illustrates the devastating psychological implications of early surgical intervention on intersexuals. According to the article, the surgery robs individuals of their sexual gratification, their gender identity, and their innocence. It's argument is noble, yet flawed. Authors Christine Gorman and Wendy Cole spin several sad yarns of intersexed people who are upset with handling of their gender assignment. They tell horror stories of people kept in the dark about their intersex, about a child forced to stop acting like a boy and become a girl, a teen who was raised to be a girl, but developed into a male. Gorman and Cole stumble into the fallacy of hasty

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

Reiheld argues that transgender persons have a hard time receiving equal care, or any care at all. I agree with Reiheld that transgender patients have difficulty in receiving the proper medical attention that they deserve. However, in this paper I will provide further solutions from Reiheld that decreases discrimination with transgender persons in America. Transgender persons in America should be treated equally in medical settings, and hospital workers should make sure that equality is served. What I believe being treated equally means is having the same rights as any other person. A transgender person, in my eyes, is a person whose self-identity does not conform to the sex their body was born with. Transgender persons in America have a difficult time receiving quality health care, or sometimes do not receive any health care. If hospital employees followed through with additional education and training to accommodate transgenders persons in America, this can ensure that all Americans regardless of sex, sexual orientation/identity, etc. are treated equally in the medical setting. Due to discrimination because of ignorance, and lack of awareness providing alternative

Transgender people just want to be able to find “affordable resources, such as counseling, hormone therapy, medical procedures, and the social support necessary to freely express their gender identity and minimize discrimination.” There are no intentions involving religion and the only “inconvenience” that there is, is the inconvenience transgender people have of facing discrimination and searching for resources that are affordable. Finding affordable resources for medical procedures and hormones for transition is difficult, especially if a person is unemployed and is experiencing demotions as mentioned earlier. Transgender people are constantly dealing with “direct or indirect experiences with discrimination, or assault. These experiences

Now, that is a lot of power. We often entrust a doctor’s judgement wholeheartedly because they just want the “best” for us, and in the cases of interesexed individuals, the physician simply wants to rid them of all the adjustment horrors that comes with such configuration, but seldom do they question the inadequacies of our role system, nor have they considered the possibility of such individuals developing into a perfectly happy and capable human beings without reassignment. Perhaps this is due to their inability to associate normalcy with anything outside of the binary. Inevitably, problems began to emerge from these reassignments. Some reassigned individuals felt aligned with their prescribed gender, but most did not. Some of these cases are extremely unfortunate, because their genitals had already been mutilated at birth. Such outcomes had prompted physicians to take more precaution when dealing with intersex babies. Sterling’s noble effort in assimilating intersex individuals through further categorization will help them find a classification system where there is a place that they can fall under, but it does not change the views of the masses, nor does it make it much easier for them to appreciate themselves as who they are, although it is a

For most of time intersex people have been made either through surgery and or medicines to live life as one sex or the other. Today there is a push to let the intersex person decide how they want to live.

Equality of people does not mean acceptance. Civil rights legislation may bring some equality but the full inclusion of transgender people goes beyond their tolerance and acceptance. People may often only tolerate something if they think that it is wrong. To believe you tolerate transgender is to mean that it is bad or immoral. You are able to put up with or tolerate the bad, but the effect of this shows the thing to be bad to begin with. However, if there is no problem about something like transgenderism then there is nothing to tolerate. People do not use the word tolerate for something that they enjoy or want. They put up with something that they would in most cases stay away from. Tolerance is not the way to achieve transgender rights.

Everyone is assigned a gender at birth and they are expected to play the role of that gender. Everyone is expected to dress like, play like, and behave like whatever gender is assigned at birth. Humans in society today have it fixed in their brains’ that there is a specific way of living and any other way of living is wrong. So when people start to behave and dress like the gender opposite of the one given at birth, they are frowned upon and discriminated against. People fear things they do not understand and when that fear takes over, the misunderstood are treated poorly.