Explain The Challenges Of Transgender In Australia
What are the challenges that Australians face today in terms of Transgender?
From the moment anyone is born their sex is determined but not their gender as such. Gender is the result of the x and y chromosomes. In the world of transgender there is approximately 1 in every 30 000 males looking to transgender into females while for females to males there is around 1 person in every 100 0001. No matter the facts each transgender person still faces many challenges.
The biggest challenge faced by Australian transgender people is the transitioning process. There are different transitioning processes, being sexual reassignment therapy, including sex reassignment surgery or hormone replacement surgery. To begin transitioning there are personal choices that need to be discussed with family or at least doctors/surgeons. Although there are choices to be made many people say the significant parts of the transition is coming out for the first time. When transitioning it isn’t a process that will take months, it will be a process that takes years as the gender is rediscover from their eyes. Generally transgender reassignments begin in a place where the transgender person is happy to talk about …show more content…
A person’s mental health is looked at before prescribing any of the puberty blockers, hormone therapies or undergoing a sex reassignment.2 Transgender people are helped by mental health care practitioners to control their emotions. Majority of the mental health issues experienced by transgender people are anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, which is helped by care practitioners and family support. Other issues include the pain of undergoing a sex reassignment, severe health conditions and divorces if in a marriage. From the surgeons point of view the patients mental state, hormone therapy and regards to their gender identity are the most important issues to consider before they surgery
From the moment anyone is born their sex is determined but not their gender as such. Gender is the result of the x and y chromosomes. In the world of transgender there is approximately 1 in every 30 000 males looking to transgender into females while for females to males there is around 1 person in every 100 0001. No matter the facts each transgender person still faces many challenges.
The biggest challenge faced by Australian transgender people is the transitioning process. There are different transitioning processes, being sexual reassignment therapy, including sex reassignment surgery or hormone replacement surgery. To begin transitioning there are personal choices that need to be discussed with family or at least doctors/surgeons. Although there are choices to be made many people say the significant parts of the transition is coming out for the first time. When transitioning it isn’t a process that will take months, it will be a process that takes years as the gender is rediscover from their eyes. Generally transgender reassignments begin in a place where the transgender person is happy to talk about …show more content…
A person’s mental health is looked at before prescribing any of the puberty blockers, hormone therapies or undergoing a sex reassignment.2 Transgender people are helped by mental health care practitioners to control their emotions. Majority of the mental health issues experienced by transgender people are anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, which is helped by care practitioners and family support. Other issues include the pain of undergoing a sex reassignment, severe health conditions and divorces if in a marriage. From the surgeons point of view the patients mental state, hormone therapy and regards to their gender identity are the most important issues to consider before they surgery