the local middle school that is struggling with their gender identity and needs someone to talk to. Would you go talk to them”? I jumped at the opportunity to speak with another transgender teenager. I am a senior now, but when I came out as transgender as a high school freshmen, the world felt compressed and dark. I had no older trans role models at my school, and I was struggling to navigate the stress of high school and my identity by myself.…
Transgender is the state of one's gender identity (self-identification as woman, man, neither or both) not matching one's assigned sex (identification by others as male, female or intersex based on physical/genetic sex).[1] Transgender does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them. The precise…
Transgender is a term that is used to describe men and women who were born a certain sex, but feel their true gender is the opposite. Some live completely - or part time - as the opposite sex. There are also some transgender people that get sex reassignment surgery, completely changing their gender. While the definition of transgender is not yet fully agreed upon and is indeed still changing on a regular basis, there are some elements that seem to remain consistent: 1. Not identifying with the…
key concepts identity politics/the politics of identity The utopian vision of ‘sisterhood’ – the collecting together of all women under the same political banner – was in part responsible for the burgeoning interest in feminism and the emergent Women’s Liberation Movement. It was inevitably going to come under fire once more women who weren’t white, middle class, heterosexual and university-educated became involved, and the differences between women came to be seen as of equal importance…
What a beautiful transgender woman! She was beautiful on the inside and out. Her first true love was when she was twelve years old, and she was so scared to tell that person because she did not think he would accept her for whom she was. When she finally had her transformation…
1.4 million people identify themselves as transgender, such as celebrities from Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox, Erika Ervin, and many more. According to New York Times, study's shows most transgender people are from the ages of 18 to 44. What is transgender exactly? What is gender identity? Transgender is one who identifies themselves as the opposite sex from the sex he/she was born with and their own internal gender identity do not match. Gender identity is someone’s internal, personal sense of being…
Gender Identity and Transgender Issues Gender is a human social system of differentiation by sex for roles, behaviors, characteristics, appearances, and identities. Everyone has an internal sense of their gender, and this sense is called gender identity. Most people’s gender identity is congruent with their assigned sex, but many people experience their gender identity to be discordant with their natal sex. Transgender is a broad term used to describe those whose gender, gender identity, or gender…
It is the subscript of David Valentine’s Imagining Transgender – an ethnography of a category that catches the eye and clues us in to the important turn his work takes across its three hundred some odd pages. Unlike other academic works up through the time of this publication (2007) that have tended to align the transgender experience with queer-studies (Feinberg 1997, Wilchins 2004) or autobiographical/ “insider” narratives (Boylan 2003/2013; Bornstein 1993), Valentine’s research instead interrogates…
University of the Philippines in the Visayas Tacloban College LIFE STORIES OF MALE GBTs IN TACLOBAN CITY (Gay, Bisexual and Male-to-Female Transgender) Chapter I INTRODUCTION Tacloban City is not spared from the retrograde and backward societal thinking towards gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. This can be rooted to the provincial location of the city. Some people in the provinces have been influenced by conservative institutions and the City of Tacloban is dominantly occupied by…
LGBT is collectively refers to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Lesbian, in the most simplified form, is the homosexuality of women. A female person is called a lesbian when she expresses her sexual and romantic desires toward another female. Gay is to describe the homosexuality of men. A gay man is one who is romantically, sexuality and or emotionally attracted to men. Bisexuality is the potential to be physically, emotionally and or sexually attracted to both men and woman…