Forum # 5 In the documentary “Growing up Trans” the main conclusion is that there is another way to battle certain issues. “In the film, Alex who is a transgender boy was born a girl who felt uncomfortable with her body and decided the best option was to become a boy”(Growing up Trans) It demonstrates just because a person is born a boy or girl, it does not mean their sexuality has to be confined to society’s standards.…
In the article “The Danish Girl Reflects On Love’s Power To Transform” by Eliza Berman talks about the true stories of transgender women and how do their stories end up on the big screens, but often are criticized by various people from different backgrounds. In the movies that tells transgender women stories how they decided to change, actors prepare for their roles by interviewing transgender women and their partners if they have one. Transgender stories are more and more frequent and becoming more popular as people starting to accept such thing as the gender change.…
Christine Jorgensen was one of the first in modern American history to be outwardly transgender. Christine was in World War II as a soldier born George. During her time in the World War II, she started to look for a surgeon to “physically transform him into her” (Steinmetz 40). As a result, Christine was honorably discharged for the army. This story was a headline on December 1, 1952 for the New York Daily News. In a newsletter, Jorgensen wrote, “Nature made a mistake, […] which I have had corrected” (Steinmetz 40). Jorgensen’s story created so much chatter for the transgender world. It was said she, “became a national sensation and led some Americans to question ideas…
They provided stories and opinions from the children. All of the transgender kids in the documentary were dealing with a problem or depression. The kids describe what they had to go through school and how their parents views on the situation. In the documentary the doctor said “we don't have all of the answers, there haven't been much research in this area.…
I must admit, the article is exceptional! Ellen Kahn addresses the issues transgender children. Most importantly, she acknowledges that elementary students also come across gender issues and acceptance. Stating such allows readers, like myself, to acknowledge the fact that young children also have a view of themselves that others should respect and accept.…
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community has faced discrimination throughout history, 2015 is no exception. LGBT people are being denied their unalienable rights, one of these rights is marriage.…
Growing up in an old fashioned household with immigrant parents from the Middle East, I didn’t hear anything about anything that wasn’t traditional in relation to sexuality. I didn’t know anything of becoming transgendered. As I got older I learned more about it, and the reasons why people don’t feel comfortable as the person they were born. Watching “Becoming Chaz” showed me even more insight on the topic, showing his personal perception, and his journey changing from a woman to a man. After watching this film, I do believe that everyone is entitled to making their own decisions for what will make them happy, and I do agree that there should be a name for this difference in a person’s mind.…
I chose this book because as I was going through the list of Corollary Readings the title caught my eye. I want to understand more about transgender people because I have friend that at age 30 has decided to transition from female to male (FTM). I have asked a few questions but don’t want to get too personal and make “him” uncomfortable, so I decided to read this book to see if any of my questions could get answered. Surprisingly enough a lot of my questions have been answered and now I want to research more and read more books about transgender people. Growing up some children have to endure bullying because they are different from other kids and they would do anything to make the bullying stop or wish they were invisible.…
I believe we need to treat transgender people equally just like we treat heterosexual people. It’s not by choice they assigned a gender at birth. For them their own inner gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. The essay, Transgender Portrayal Representation in Media, shows that more than a half of people mentally got effected by the influence of the media. Misleading of media hurts transgender people.…
I never really thought about gender besides that we are born either a man or woman. I’ve worked with transgender individuals before and I didn’t think much about it except that they are who they want to be. The main thing I learned from that lesson is the dangers in how you handle gender with your children. In the McGraw-Hill site, we learned about a child named Storm and how his parents are raising him genderless. I talked about this in the discussion on what did we think, but it is just something that has stuck with me. The American Psychological Association’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns Office stated that there is no research available that says weather being raised a “genderless child” is harmful or not. To me, that just means that what they are doing is an experiment that can go horribly wrong just because their oldest is a transgendered child. I will use this information in my family life, if we decided to have children I plan on not overemphasizing gender. I think that will just confuse them if they do not know their gender. If they decide later to change who they are, we will accept that and love them for…
You would never guess what I did yesterday. It was something that I will never forget! It was a time where I was able to express my secret self of being transgender publically by being on 20:20’s complete documentary with Barbara Walters. The day before Mrs. Walters came to my house I remember I was drawing her a picture. I used my pink crayon to draw her a pretty shirt and I used the black crayon to color her pants. Right after that my parents came to me with a confusing look on their faces. Soon Mommy sat me down as she and Daddy started explaining how the whole interview thing would work. Mommy said that Mrs. Walters would ask me questions about when I first knew I was a girl and other questions about how I see myself. She…
Transgender people are some of the most ostracized people in our society. Many people claim that transgendered people have a mental disorder and they are constantly presented in media, not as actual people with real lives, but as punchlines to a joke. When we view people as jokes or freaks, we dehumanize them. This perpetuates a cycle of culturally validated violence against trans people, especially trans women. A national study discovered that 50% of transgendered people suffered sexual violence in their lifetime, which is a staggering amount. A large percent also suffer from non-sexual violence as well. Social scientist hypothesize that most of these rapes and attacks stem from transphobia, and these crimes are also overlooked. In many…
During last century, our society has changed a lot in terms of accepting minorities LGBTQ, despite there are still people who do not accept them. One of these minorities who had suffered more are the transgender people. They had to change their genders, usually late in life and hiding from the rest of the society. They had to live the entire life being someone who do not fit with their minds and personality. For this reason, Transgender kids should be allowed to start cross-sex hormones before puberty, because it facilitates their lives and it does not carry any further complication later, and they will not have problems during the complex period of adolescence.…
According to Dara Hoffman (2013), who has worked with transgender children, teens, adults, and the elderly, the common thing about transgender awareness is that it comes at a very young age. “There’s just an innate sense of gender, even before they know that boys do this stuff or girls do this stuff’ (p.1). Kevin Everhart, PhD (2013), is a clinical psychologist and early childhood specialist. He explains of transgender children that they have “an unshakable conviction and a knowledge that they are the sex they believe they are. (p.2).…
There are consequences when some of these young children tell their parents or tell anyone in general. This can leave the youth with serious problems that can also get them in trouble or cause them health problems as well. Martela (2015) states that thirty percent of calls are coming from youth rejected by their families, religious or not. Some other callers were also having trouble accessing transition-related medical care or facing workplace harassment (Bielski, 2015, para.8). This is one problem that many of these people face. This is leaving them all alone trying to figure thing out on their own with no support from anybody close to them and even schools, they do not have to proper knowledge at times. Bielski (2015) states that it is a new Canadian crisis and that this hotline can help especially in vulnerable communities with high rates of depression and suicide (para.1). There are also many different sources like online anti- bullying. Like mentioned above cyberbullying is deadly. Most of the youth populations are always on social media. Tumbler a social media site where most people can express themselves and right what is on their mind and give them a free way to express what they believe in and share pictures. Leelah Alcorn, a seventeen year old transgender teen wrote a suicide note on tumbler about being transgender and suffering familial rejection from her devout Christian parents, which they would not allow Joshua, birth name, to begin her transition (Bielski, 2015, para.4). Alcorn suicide note explains “I feel like a girl trapped in a boy’s body, and I’ve felt that way since I was 4” and going one saying “ when I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness”(Bielski, 2015, para.5). She later on explains that she told her mom and that she reacted in a negative way, telling her that it was a phase. Stories like hers were brought to attention to many different teen…