Essays on Transgender

When we hear the word trans, it’s mostly associated with sexuality and gender, however, a new concept has come up.. The act of associating with a race other than the one you were born into. Identifying with a race that diverges from your ‘birth ethnicity’ is now considered a shape of cultural appropriation. Known as Trans-racialism, one of the most controversial matters today. In 2015 Caitlyn Jenner uncovered her actual character to the world. While her body, her cells, her DNA said one sexual ...

Reading the article written by Thomas Page Mcbee helps me understand the transgender issues from a trans point of view better, thus allowing me to reflect my life and thoughts about them more precisely. There are three issues that I would love to emphasize based on my reading.The first issue that I found in the article is about the trend among TV producers and authors often use to gain popularity and rating which is by including trans character in their works. As a person who never met a ...

The Socio-Legal Exploitation of the Third Gender in India Prof. Shilpa Khatri Babbar Prof. Shilpa is a sociologist from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India and has been working on the marginalized segments of the society. She is currently teaching in the Law School of the VivekanandaInstitute of Professional Studies (Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi). Abstract: This paper is an attempt to shift the focus of the discourse of social justice, from ...

From birth until death societal structure provides individuals with acceptable and unacceptable behaviours in society based on whether they are male or female (Dietert & Dentice, 2009). As per 2011 Indian census it was reported that total population of transgender is around 4.88 lakh (Transgender in India, 2011). Despite this, there is little research in India exploring the transgender people’s experience of therapy and Mental Health Services. Since transgender population is itself varied in ...

The movie “Boys Don’t Cry” is a factual-based movie describing the life of Brandon Teena, a young boy that moves to a new town and discovers that his desires and behaviors are conflicting with other individuals’ expectations. Brandon portrays himself as a man despite being born a female, and his behavior, appearance, and mannerisms match this male gender. Throughout the movie, Brandon befriends a group of adolescents that eventually alter the course of his life. Most people in the town falsely ...

Transgender individuals are often characterized as female to male (FTM) and male to female (MTF). The term gender identity speaks to people’s internal, deeply felt sense or identification with their gender, which may or may not match the sex assigned at birth (APA, 2015). Cisgender is when a person’s gender identity matches the sex assigned at birth (APA, 2015); The assignment of biological sex is based on the appearance of external sex organs.Nevertheless, sport remains one of the most sex ...

National mental health survey of India conducted from 2015 to 2016 found mental health problems are more in 30-49 or over 60 age people. Low income is the reason and people are in urban areas are most affected. Transgenders are most vulnerable population in terms of getting mental health problems compared to non transgender people. Most of the studies conducted on transgenders found the same. Chance of getting mental health was higher in transgenders than cisgenders peers (Becerra-Culqui TA, ...

The topic of this paper was heavily inspired by recent events in a Northeastern student group on Facebook called the “NU Meme Collective.” Last week, a student named Kate made a post regarding the “Swipe Off” competition—in which the winning school receives the chance to host a free, exclusive concert headlined by rapper Cardi B—organized by popular dating app Tinder (McKinney), in response to video evidence of B using derogatory language against transgender women. In a later addendum, Kate ...

The Salem Witch Trials are infamously known for being ridiculous, seemingly random acts of accusation and murder. Being a woman, particularly one of very young or very old age, poor, or easily targeted woman, was an incredibly unsafe thing to be during 1694 in Massachusetts. Such violence based on stereotyping and blatant intolerance for what is not easily understood was unfortunately not left in 17th century. Today, one example of this is the homicide rate of transgender people. Current ...

There are new stories of transgender role models coming to the forefront of media every day, yet we are still plagued with the perpetuation of transphobic tropes in television. Transgender characters are put into uncomfortable situations and used for lewd jokes. There are several tropes that are often seen repeated, including the persistent questioning of trans people’s genitals and unrelenting disgust at having been ‘tricked into’ dating a transgender character. Not only are these jokes tired ...

Abstract Trans genders is a person who is assigned a gender according to their body. transgender do not Identify with the gender .they were assigned with the way society expects them to express such gender through clothes ,gestures ,mannerism and other characteristics .consequently trans gender people constantly face structural prejudice and discrimination and commonly expressed through the term trans phobia. whether in all sectors of society for not fitting into dominant gender discourse . ...