Transgender Case Study Memo

Regarding access to healthcare, transgender individuals often face the most obstructive barriers when attempting to receive care. Whether they are seeking access to hormones, therapy, general health services, reproductive healthcare, or specialty healthcare, transgender patients typically cannot get what they need without jumping through many hoops or hiding their identities. This occurs especially so in cases of intersecting identities -- where an individual is not just transgender, but is transgender and a person of color, disabled, gay, indigenous, undocumented, poor, etc. These intersecting identities interact in multifaceted ways to produce even more barriers for trans individuals seeking healthcare due to healthcare provider bias, insurance requirements, and doctors’ general unwillingness to help coupled with inaccessibility founded on racism, transphobia, homophobia, mental illness stigmatization, etc.

The supreme court case that I decided on was the case of Gavin Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board (ED. VA.) (Unknown, 2017). This case is about an 18-year-old male that attends a Virginia high school in Gloucester County Virginia. Gavin has male features and facial hair like a male and a deep voice like a male; however, he is in the process of being a transgender. The problem is Gavin uses the men’s restroom and is fighting for a transgender restroom throughout the school. The school board’s policy denies transgender students access to the restrooms used by rest of the student body because it violates the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Unknown, 2017). The school states that students must use the restrooms according to their

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.

Have you ever been shopping at Target? Did you know that the Target corporation opened their first Target store in 1902, and currently operates 1,793 stores? This company has been shopped by millions of customers. On April 19, 2016 Target made a big change in their companies policies. Transgenders now get to use the bathroom/dressing room facility that matches their gender identity.

The word transgender has become a common one in today's society. Especially after an article published by The Washington Post, where it talked about a case in Virginia, where a high school transgender student named Gavin Grimm, sued his highschool board, "alleging that the policy violated his civils right". The article also informs that the case reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. The case resulted in Gavin having to go to the girl's bathroom. This case took by storm almost every media in the U.S., as well as more cases related to transgender people spread through the news media, as well as appearing in John

When addressing critical issues that are interfering with the implementation of an effective correctional system, factors such as aging, mentally ill, and transgender prisoners need to be taken into account. While the aging and mentally ill dominate the aspects of funding due to their higher needs for medical and mental health requirements, the transgender deals with a more societal and human rights perspective, but can also have the element of a medical cost. Each of these types of prison populations have strong ties to political, policy, economic, and legal issues and how each of them are dealt with. These issues are what largely determine the outcome of both positive

Toye, I completely agree with you. I feel that regardless of your sexual orientation anyone should be able to serve their country. I still to this day do not understand why it was a big deal prior to the repeal. Everyone should be treated equally as long they do as they should in the military and not being disrespectful. I know quite a few individuals that are gay in the military and they do as they should by doing their job and it shouldn't matter if they are gay. The LGB service members can do the same things as the heterosexuals and can even do it better. I am happy for those individuals that can serve openly in the military.

Last week, Corey Maison the transgender teen from Detroit received a life changing gift inside a little pink and white box, her first dose of estrogen. Her emotional response that was caught on camera by her mother, Erica Maison, has gone viral.

Yes, this policy that President Trump has put in place has caused us to take steps back in the LGBTQ community and is extremely discriminatory towards transgender people and their society as well as supporters. I personally have a friend who is transgender and am livid about this new policy that has been put in place. It was only several years back that Obama put this policy in place in regards to allowing transgender people to serve as military personal and now their rights to serve their country have been taken away again. Why would you not allow someone to serve the country they live in just based on their identifying gender? It is pointless and just plain discimination based off of personal feelings of a specific

The legal issue that is stated in this case is whether or not the Obama administration followed legal procedure in accordance with APA (Administrative Procedure Act) and whether or not the guideline executed by the Obama administration could cause harm to the defendants. In return is the reason why the defendants are pursuing an injunction. The foundation of this particular case even though it has no legal barring to the outcome of this case is the principle on which this ligation was filed on. The protection of students' rights and that of their own personal property when using the bathroom, locker rooms, and other facilities while at school is the underlying principle. The court argued that the administration was not limited by this law.

Thank you, Jose, for this wonderful post. I was never part of the LGBTQ community and yet I also have always known that this community is highly discriminated against. I also in a smaller scale understand why you would choose to keep that part of your life personal. People that are gay or transgender face discrimination at school and at work. while you can hide your sexual orientation Jose, it is very hard for a transgender to do the same. A company is more likely to hire a heterosexual male then a transgender with the same qualification and that to me is just not fair.

Numerous studies have shown that transgender people face disproportionate amounts of discrimination in all areas of life, especially in employment. As the American economy worsens, the discrimination faced by transgender people is becoming even more acute. Often forced into already unstable jobs and careers, and often facing compounding bias because of race or age, the economic well being of transgender people is being challenged today like never before (National Center for Transgender Equality, 2011). The National Transgender Discrimination Survey showed that ninety percent (90%) of those surveyed reported experiencing harassment or mistreatment on the job or took actions to avoid it (Grant, M., Mottet, Tanis, Harrison, Herman, & Keisling, 2011). Lombardi, Wilchins, Priesing & Malouf (2001) asserted that people who are open about being trans or request accommodations are more likely to be harassed, intimidated, or fired. In addition, The National Transgender Discrimination Survey indicates that forty-seven percent (47%) of survey respondents said they had experienced an adverse job action; they did not get a job, were denied a promotion or were fired

I want to study how individuals perceive people that are transgender. I’m interested in studying the topic since the transgender individuals are misunderstood in society. They are misunderstood based on the fact that they don’t follow the gender norms that society has or the term of transgender. Understand their social environment. How the transgender people are perceived in the family, education, religion, economic and political institutions. Studying how they are faced with transphobic due to the lack of knowledge about the transgender people. But Most importantly, how there is a lack of equality rights for the transgender people due to the fact that the society lacks understanding of the transgender people. Hoping to find out how the transgender people are views when they have, so I could approach them as a competent social a competent social worker and

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.

Milligan, S. (2015, September 1). Supporting Transgender Employees: More companies are helping transgender employees through the biggest transition of their life. Are you ready? Retrieved from http://www.shrm.org/publications/hrmagazine/editorialcontent/2015/0915/pages/0915-transgender-employees.aspx