Gender Policing

The topic my group did was gender policing and violence against gay men. I feel like this is an important topic, especially today, because of the ongoing changes that our society is seeing. The constant changing, and growing of not just gay men, but the LGBQT community as a whole. In today’s society, more and more people are coming out about being gay, or bisexual, or transgender. Unfortunately, the violence against these same people are also increasing. I also think that even though the violence against gay men and the LGBQT community is increasing, the awareness of this issue hasn’t changed very much in the past few years. According to the Center for American Progress, hate-motivated violence against transgender people rose 13% from 2014
Most people probably do some type of gender policing in their day to day life without even realizing it. I don’t want to take away the importance of awareness of the violence that is occurring, but I almost think that raising the awareness of gender policing is more important. As a society we kind of agree for the most part that violence is bad. But like I said most of society is completely unaware of gender policing, and completely unaware that they probably do it in some form almost every day. In our presentations I give three examples of gender policing going on. Each example is just in the last two to three years. And the worst part is that all of them involve little children. Which in my opinion is terrible because now children are growing up in a world where they are use to this gender policing, and in the future these types of things are just going to be the norm and no one will even think twice about it. Not that many people think about it in today’s society anyways, but the future is just going to get worse and worse if society does raise their awareness on this
As I noticed with the flyers for the event “Walk A Mile In Her Shoes”, there were tons of flyers to grab people’s attentions. Even if you weren’t paying attention to the board of flyers, that one stood out because you had seen it so many times before. We tried to do the same thing by trying to get at least one flyer in every main building on campus. Another way that helped our PSA flyers stand out was by including the statistics of the violence that is happening. It’s one thing to just hang a flyer up around campus saying that there is a problem on this subject. But it’s another thing to say there’s a problem and then actually show how bad the problem is. It was eye opening for me when I read about how bad the violence against the LGBQT community was. Hopefully it will be eye opening for some of the students on campus