Introduction The purpose of this study was to prove how minority stress correlates with mental health within the transgender community. As defined by Meriam-Webster Dictionary, transgender “is relating to, or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person 's sex at birth” (Merriam-Webster, 2016). For example, male to female, or female to male. However, researchers in this study used the minority stress model, which suggested
job or rent an apartment will not be denied on the basis of their gender identity. In the 2011 National Healthcare Disparities Report is stated that transgender people are more likely to be uninsured and less likely to have employer-based health insurance than the general population. In the USA it is legal to fire someone solely for being transgender in
Some people think transgender people should go to the bathroom that they were born into right? Well I think not, I think they should go to the bathroom they want to go to. Everybody knows everyone needs to go to the restroom and do their business, but transgender people have to choose either go to the woman because of the color of the lipstick they´ŕe wearing or they also think they should go to the man's bathroom because of the five o’clock shadow. Many people say ¨They should be going to the
constructed parameters. About five in every 100,000 individuals do not fall into the sex and gender roles they are born into. These individuals face a lifetime of psychological abuse, physical abuse, depression, and in some cases suicide. The transgender community faces a plethora of problems that limit their acceptance into society. Transitioning can be the single most important step toward a healthier, happy life.
identity, something that most people never figure out, let alone someone who goes against their own anatomy. Finding your gender identity in a world where you are given no choices has got to be the hardest battle of them all. We watch the transgender story of Brandon Teena unfold into a heart-wrenching tale of what it really means to tell the truth. Despite the fact that Brandon has the biological make-up of a female, he bravely takes on his world as a man, doing everything he can to introduce
investigates four published articles that report on results from research conducted on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender aging (LGBT) and the psychosocial consequences they experience resulting from disparities. The articles, however, differ in that the research takes a one-dimensional approach to an unambiguous issue. Therefore, this paper will focus on the article titled Helping Gay and Transgender People as they Age (McDaniels, 2015) given it offers an interdisciplinary perspective on LGBT aging. Notably
Transgender inclusive healthcare has been a hot debate topic over the last couple of years throughout the world. Transgender inclusive healthcare is healthcare that provides covering for counseling, hormone replacement therapy, and gender confirmation surgeries. There are different ways for individuals, as well as groups, to move this discussion forward and make real change happen. This piece will look at three different feminist groups and how they would approach making transgender inclusive healthcare
Classrooms as Safe Spaces: Protecting Transgender Rights and Combatting Transphobia Through Pedagogy In the last decade, in particular, there has been an increasing awareness of the rights and struggles of the LGBTQ community.As a result, positive changes such as recognition and legalization of same-sex marriage, prohibition of discrimination based on gender identity/expression and sexual orientation, and greater rights for the LGBTQ community in public and private spheres have come about. However
In Susan Stryker’s “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”, Stryker creates an intimate linkage between Frankenstein’s monster and the transsexual body. Like Frankenstein, a transsexual person owns an “unnatural” body and an identity defined completely by medical practice. And like Frankenstein, a transsexual person encounters countless challenges, discrimination, and hatred from normal people. Normal people deem transsexual existence as the embodiment
Building Bridges: A Journey of Learning about the Transgender Community We are conditioned to believe the United States is a country built on equality, a country where we all get an equal, unbiased chance at success and happiness. Unfortunately, this is simply not the case. Many groups in our country are oppressed and discriminated against, for the sole fact that they stray from the norm. One of these groups is people who are transgender, and they are the community I want to “build bridges” with