Transgender People Gone To Extremes

The part that confuses the majority of the people that are not transgender or don’t quite understand what it is, is when they speak to someone they thought was a certain sex and are asked to refer to them as the opposite sex. For example, meeting someone that appears to be a man and asked to refer to him as she/her. This can be especially confusing if a family member is going through a transition. Family members tend to be the most affected by a transgender in the family, they do not know how to react or how to help because they are most likely the only transgender in the family. Being transgender is not a choice, it is a feeling and almost all people that are transgender are unlikely to be able to feel happiness or find peace in life if they are not who they feel they truly are meant to be.

Transgender is ‘an umbrella term that refers to those with identities that cross over, move between,or otherwise challenge the socially constructed border between the genders. While this can include medical or social transition, it may not.’ There is a difference between transgenders and transsexuals. Transsexuals do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth and wish to ‘correct’ their gender through the use of medical intervention. These two terms however, are nearly synonymous in our culture and we tend to refer to people who wish to live as a different gender than the one they were assigned when they were born as transgenders, since the term is broader and more recognizable.

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.

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

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

Some people are unaware of the process for transgenders to become a different sex. Normally first they first meet with a mental health doctor and make a diagnosis, then create a plan. usually meeting with these therapists they will receive documentation to start hormone therapy with a doctor. After sometime on the hormones, they have surgery. Normally a male to female transition is cheaper, easier, and more of an efficient surgery. After this

"[T]here is a profound difference between pretending to be something in imaginary play, and declaring who you are - insistently, consistently, and persistently. Those are the three markers that set Transgender [people] apart." In the summer of 2014, Debi Johnson gave a speech telling the story behind mothering a Transgender child; with this quote she grasped the concept behind what it means to identify as Transgender in the best way possible. In today’s society, Transgender people are the most targeted group in the LGBTQ+ community for hate-based crimes of violence. Seventeen percent of Transgender people were victims of such violence in 2009, with 11 percent targeted towards those who identified as female, according to the Office for Victims of Crime. The Transgender community is fighting for their freedom to express their way of life without the worry of judgment or discrimination. Acceptance needs to be found first in their own homes if they want to move further along in society. Security of life is greatly dependent on their acceptance into society. As teens and as adults they need to have ease of mind that they will be able to live normal lives without consequences coming from it.

Being transgender greatly involves identity, naïve realism, ethnocentrism, and relativism. This relates to ethnocentrism because one who is not transgender or doesn’t have a clear understanding may feel as though it isn’t necessary. I define ethnocentrism as the belief that one’s own behavior and beliefs are superior to others. In many cases, some people have even acted upon their sense of ethnocentrism committing hate crimes, homicide, or even murder. This is a reflection of their belief that they are superior. This also is a reflection of how societies enforce this concept of gender and feel threated when someone breaks the boundary. As one of my classmates said, looking at gender from a religious aspect, God is a sort of genderless being and when one is struggling with gender identity or transgender, it may appear as though they are making a statement. One that is telling everyone else that they are on the same level as God. Naïve realism relates to what the guest speakers discussed because they explained that there are a lot of people who tend to kind of stop and stare at them simply because they look different; they are foreign to them. To those who don’t understand being transgender, they may not understand how someone could such an identity crisis, as the feeling cannot be perceived by one who has not endured it. I found this to especially relate to identity because among age, language, and various other things, gender is one of the primary characteristics used to define self. If someone is experiencing an identity crisis, to whatever extent, that’s related to gender it directly correlates with the concept of identity we’ve been learning about in class. Understanding the concept of being transgender may require a sense of cultural relativism. I define relativism as the attempt to understand another culture’s way of life from their own perspective. If someone is wanting to

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

Medical practitioners have a history of not accurately reflecting the understandings of people who trans gender, dating back to the 1800s when they upheld the sexually dimorphic model that states that everyone has “one true sex” (Enke, lecture 2/18). Even in the early 1900s, medical professionals advised trans people to take hormones more closely aligned with their designated sex at birth, as it would help them “feel better”. However, medical treatment of people who trans has improved dramatically over the years. Now, in the 21st century, there are laws in place to prohibit discrimination against people who trans. In order to get from that point to this point, it took growth in both the trans community and the medical community. Medicine mimics society just as society mimics medicine, and as the trans community grew more forthright and educated from those within its community as well as the medical field, the medical field grew more understanding of people who trans. It is all a cycle.

The practice of medicine in the United States sustains the marginalization of transgender people (Catalano et al., 2007). When Christine Jorgensen’s sex change was announced in 1952, many men consulted doctors to pursue successful transitions as a form of self-expression to affirm their sexual identities (Meyerowitz, 2013). However, doctors relied on their own authority to diagnose transgender issues and did not have any proven medical theory to assist the men with transitioning (2013). In addition, transgender issues in the practice of medicine are viewed as a mental disorders or illnesses (Spade, 2013) that are curable through medical transitioning (Catalano et al., 2007). Moreover, Spade (2013) discusses the difficulties in securing low cost medical care. Spade is not a textbook case of gender identity disorder, so he is having issues proving that he is a male at all times based on his lived experiences to his counselor, which undermines his transgender identity. Furthermore, the juvenile judicial system perpetuates the medical assessment of transgender people as suffering from an illness to be treated (Ware, 2013). “Uncontrollable” transgender youth, who do not have access to information about their sexuality (Sears, 1991), is placed in the juvenile judicial system by

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

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.

According to Hagg and Fellows (2007:4), sex generally refers to anatomy and biology such as male or female, whereas gender refers to the qualities and behaviours society expects from a boy or girl, a man or woman. The definition of transgender refers to a person having no identification with, or no presentation as, the gender one was assigned at birth (Hagg and Fellows 2007:4). The definition of transsexual in Hagg and Fellows (2007:4) refers to a person who had undergone a sex change operation or a person identifying with the opposite sex.

The homophobic attacks have also increased towards the transgender community. In various cases, the transgender community has been exposed to violence and threats that are risking their safety and existence in the society as well. Most cases arise when the transgender women fail to reveal their real identity before the relationship progresses. In the end, the partner discovers the real truth and is devastated of the exposure. Later, the scenario might even escalate into being violent and the outcome being death or even a heavily injured victim. Most of the cases, such as the one involving Gwen Amber Rose Araujo occurred in the same way since her attackers were not well familiar of her sexuality (Giddens, 2013). Hence, they felt duped when they