Transgender

All inmates entering into prison are required to do a strip search for safety and security reasons. Many transgender inmates are required to do this not only for security causes, but so their gender can be determined based on their genitalia (Routh, Abess, Makin, Stohr, Hemmens & Yoo, 2015 ). Transgender inmates are classified based on their sex, not the gender that they identify with. Many prisons leave the classification results up to the discretion

The transgender community should have the right to use the restroom of the gender they identity with or have an alternate choice, some people many agree that is would be a dangerous liability, but some people may even agree to proving gender neutral restrooms. In dangerous of a person of the opposite sex using the restroom they prefer are very obvious, but is every person out to cause dangerous to other people in the restroom. Some people’s gender evolves differently, and might not fit rigid traditional

does not want to be the sex that they were born. Others say that a person is born with those feelings and that they just develop over time. Some say that they don’t act on those feelings during adolescence because of the stigma attached to being transgender, and the fact that kids are cruel. The fact that they don’t act on the feelings until later in their lives is the reason why some say that wanting to be a different sex just happens. Personally, I believe that a person is born knowing that they

of Transgender Health (WPATH), has attempted to better understand and meet the needs of transgender individuals and the clinicians who provide their care. This is reflective of a societal shift towards inclusion, as well as a growing number of transgender individuals on the caseloads of clinicians. The APA, for example, made changes to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2013 to reduce stigma and improve clinical care available to the transgender community

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

Discrimination of Transsexuals For many years, members of the gay, lesbian and transgender communities have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation. The group that will be the focused on in this essay is transsexuals. Transgender is a term that describes transvestites and transsexuals, which is gender identification not sexual orientation. Transgender are individuals whose gender identities or gender expressions contrast with traditional social norms and expectations. Gender identity

A time-line of transgender identities. © 1999 Drs. Arianne van der Ven Contents Summery 2 Introduction: The development of gender as we know it How does history relate to us? 3 From a one-gender system to a two-gender system, and on to ‘third sex’ categories. 3 Some specifics of gender transitions. 5 Part I: Sexology begins. Transgender Identities before the 19th century 7 The early 19th century: Enters forensic psychiatry 7 The

into society. In schools, teens have experienced physical and mental issues, dating problems and homelessness. Transgender teens and young adults usually suffer from physical and mental problems the source of these problems' comes from domestic violence, bullying, and substance abuse. It is difficult to find parents that can accept the adolescent and give emotional support. For a transgender youth and young adult dating is hard to find. When a trans girl starts dating a heterosexual man, the man expects

Transgender, a term I was not too familiar with until I read the insightful book Luna by Julie Anne Peters. Before reading this novel I thought that if you were transgender that meant you wanted to change your sex, because you thought you were born as the wrong one; however, there is more to it than this. A person that is transgender goes through cycles of transformation in order to get to the point where they finally look the same outside as they do on the inside. Luna, the chosen name for Liam

Transgenders have been a part of the LGBT community ever since continuously growing in representation most especially mainstream culture. Popular transgender people such as Laverne Cox and Caitlin Jenner are cultural representatives of this group. Filipino society has also experienced an emergence of LGBT and gender non-conformity. As reported by the United States Agency of International Development (USAID), “reference was made to transvestism and crossing gender in the 16th and 17th century with