Today more than ever companies are changing the way gays‚ lesbians‚ and transgender individuals are treated in the work place. Companies are adopting non-discriminating policies‚ starting to give more benefits and other practices that include GLBT in the workplace. In 2002‚ the first Human Rights Campaign Foundation Corporate Equality Index rated employers strictly on seven criteria‚ which remain the basis for today’s rating system. The original criteria were guided in part by the Equality Principles
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Hardship of Transgender Students in Public Schools What makes being transgender so hard in public school? The physical bullying‚ not being able to fit in as well‚ and the school rules taking away your natural rights? Students that are trans are more likely to be discriminated against in public schools. Transgender students often cannot attend school events and even go to the bathroom‚ many students often will call them a freak or other harsh words‚ and if the situation is bad enough they might even
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RUNNING HEAD: THE TRANSEXUAL MIND ! ! Psychology 1100 Term Paper: The Transsexual Mind and Development of Transgender THE TRANSSEXUAL MIND ! Abstract Discussing the physical aspects of a person identifying as transgender. Articles and journals were chosen with information pertaining to the fact that transgenderidentifying people are not merely facing a biological‚ physical ailment and rather a psychological illness. Using evidence from MRI brain scans and infant hormone levels
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experiences of trans community members. People who would now be considered members of the transgender community struggled to find a place in larger activist circles in the mid to late 20th century. One factor that inhibited the creation of a cohesive trans movement was the lack of language to describe the diversity of trans experience. During the 1960s‚ discussion of gender
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Transgender Bathroom Rights Marching down the streets‚ thousands of women protested for their rights in the early 20th century. American women had to fight for suffrage‚ and African Americans had to fight for their freedom. For several years people have had to fight for their needs and rights‚ it is a struggle for most to overcome the fear of something that is different from themselves. Now we’re fighting for transgender rights. Transgender people should be able to use their preferred bathroom for
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Mental Health Issues in Transgender Females Defining Transgender In the past decade‚ the term transgender has rapidly come to be used to describe a range of social identities‚ a political movement‚ and a community that had no name until the early 1990s. Transgender women identify themselves as being a man either by feeling as if they are men or by having both genitalia at birth and the penis being removed leaving only a vagina. They are uncomfortable being identified as a woman and choose to
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Transgender people face unique challenges — such as widespread discrimination and hate violence‚ the complex process of getting appropriate identity documents‚ finding culturally competent healthcare providers‚ and family and parenting issues — that make them some of the most vulnerable members of American society. These issues affect thousands of people and their families‚ representing all ages‚ classes and ethnic groups‚ who together are an integral part of India. A transgender woman whose journey
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many transgender individuals‚ this is the harsh reality. Being transgender means that you don’t feel that the gender you were born as matches who you feel you are‚ which can result in using other pronouns‚ name changes‚ or SRS (gender affirming surgery). Transgender students should be allowed to use the restroom they feel fits with their gender identity‚ because even though some cisgender‚ people who feel like the gender they were born as matches them‚ people may feel uncomfortable‚ transgender individuals
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Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals‚ behaviors‚ and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. Transgender is the state of one ’s "gender identity” (self-identification as woman‚ man‚ neither or both) not matching ones "assigned sex" (identification by others as male‚ female or intersex based on physical/genetic sex). A transgender individual may have characteristics that are normally
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Kalmerton Community Policing Building Relationships with Transgender Individuals W6D2 02/26/2015 This article is preparing you and essentially trying to raise awareness when it comes to transgender individuals and interacting with them in a way that is comfortable for yourself and your agency but also for the individuals being victimized. Does the agency you are interested in have policies? Does it provide guidelines on how to interact with transgender individuals? These are all questions that law enforcement
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