considerable distress because of their actual sex” (Medical Dictionary). “Transgender students may be of any age‚ ethnicity‚ race‚ class‚ or sexual orientation. Some enter higher education open about being transgender‚ while others come out during college or graduate school. Still others may never use the term transgender‚ but will strongly identify themselves as male‚ female‚ transsexual‚ or another (or no) gender“ (Transgender Issues). I have taken many psychology and sociology
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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
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high level of concern from the lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual‚ and transgender (LGBT) community in regards to the status of the category of GID in the DSM (Drescher‚ 2010). Activists argued that it is wrong to label expressions of gender variances as symptoms of a mental disorder. Advocates for the removal of the GID compare it to the removal of homosexuality in 1973 (Drescher‚ 2010). According to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health‚ people experiencing “strong cross-gender identification
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Who are the people often labeled with the acronym LGBT? LGBT’s or lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual and transgenders‚ are members of every race‚ religion‚ gender‚ and ethnicity. But how do we identify them‚ address their health needs? Unlike ethnicity‚ race‚ religion‚ gender‚ and income‚ which are all questions posed on the U.S. Census‚ neither sexual orientation nor gender identity are listed. (American Community Survey‚ 2013) According to HealthPeople.gov‚ this question is included on few state or federal
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Boys Don’t Cry: List # 1 PLOT Boys Don’t Cry is a film about the real life of Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena was a young transgender individual from Nebraska that was murdered after the discovery of his being transgender. Brandon Teena found a group of friends after a bar fight that got out of hand and found a home like atmosphere in their presence. However‚ his new found friends did not know that he was born a woman and Brandon Teena does his best to keep his identity a secret. Unfortunately
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Boys Don’t Cry Synopsis: The film Boys Don’t cry is about a transgender female who lives her life as a man. Born with the name Teena Brandon she inhibits the lifestyle of her male counterparts as Brandon who is just looking for acceptance and to be loved for who she is. The story of Brandon takes place during the ‘90’s in the working class area of a small Nebraska town where he meets up and befriends a group of young people. They are readily acceptant of Brandon being a man‚ but it is later discovered
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Though transgender people have existed as long as the concept of gender has‚ it was only recently that transgender people became visible on a broad stage: Laverne Cox‚ notable for her work as an actress on Orange is the New Black‚ reflected at the end of 2011 in a Huffington Post blog post about her acting career and movies concerning transgender people that she was aware of for that year; Caitlyn Jenner—former Olympic athlete—had
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transition to female‚ but the man word I will stress is “decides”. Intersex children should not be “assigned” a certain gender but rather allowed to go undecided until they decide which path they want to go in for themselves. The same thing applies to transgender individuals‚ who shouldn’t be ridiculed for deciding to go in a different path. Bruce Jenner has been a lot of things throughout his life. He has been an Olympic superstar‚ on the Wheaties box‚ the author of inspirational sports books‚ and a sometime
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Assessment Immediate Concerns Candice is a 53 year old transgender woman who has just been diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)‚ a type of lung disease‚ after she was taken to the emergency room (ER) for chest pain with shortness of breath‚ while vacationing with her partner Charles. Candice has been smoking one pack of cigarettes daily for the past twenty-five years‚ with multiple unsuccessful attempts of cessation. The ER doctor has warned Candice that she can possibly
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discrimination against transgender populations. Transgenderism is based on an individual not identifying as their assigned sex‚ but for radical feminists‚ that means that transgender men were trying to escape their female oppression‚ and transgender women are exercising the ultimate form of male privilege by commodifying aspects of the female identity without accepting any of the oppression that comes with it (Goldberg). The problem is that this idea directly invalidates the existence of transgender individuals
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