Ontario Human Rights Commission: The Problems Of Gender Identity
PROBLEMS OF GENDER IDENTITY
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The Ontario Human Rights Commission defines gender identity as the “link to a person’s sense of self, and the sense of being male or female that is socially constructed and reinforced by puberty.” Gender identity is a very broad social issue in the world today that manifests itself in the society in different ways. The society functions on a system that depends on each gender and its attributed sexual orientation, usually heterosexual males and females, to play the role that the society has constructed for each gender type. This is how the society has functioned but the other sexual orientations, which are homosexuals, transgender and transsexuals do not know how they belong and should function in this system, …show more content…
The other part is more business-based, where the females are trying to break into the male-dominated jobs such as engineering, information technology, and management but there is a reason why these jobs have been male-dominated. These jobs are male-dominated because the constructs and decision-making nature of the job requires a strong sense of control and seared conscience of which many men have and the females in such positions are having gender identity problems because most lack those features.
Gender identity is a social issue rather than a private issue because of how each party affected by it interprets how the situation affects them and reacts accordingly. In the first case of gender identity, the latter group, which are the homosexuals, transgender, and transsexuals, feel unfairly treated in certain situations like when a worker admits to his supervisor that he is a transgender and later loses his job or when the management of a firm denies a worker promotion just because he is transsexual. Victims of these kinds of situations form groups with the interest
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They were able to form groups to advocate for equality among all sexual orientations for example, the permission of same-sex marriage in some provinces in Canada, but some heterosexuals are still against such ideals and this is where the government and courts come in. The homosexuals and transsexuals appealed to the courts on several occasions to allow same-sex marriage due to the bans placed on it by the provincial governments, which consists of religious heterosexuals, and had no choice but to allow it throughout Canada because the courts claim that banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and was not too different from opposite-sex marriage. With this victory, the transgender, homosexuals, and transsexuals will continue to press on to make the system accept them as they are and the heterosexuals will continue to fight back for the purity of the
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The Ontario Human Rights Commission defines gender identity as the “link to a person’s sense of self, and the sense of being male or female that is socially constructed and reinforced by puberty.” Gender identity is a very broad social issue in the world today that manifests itself in the society in different ways. The society functions on a system that depends on each gender and its attributed sexual orientation, usually heterosexual males and females, to play the role that the society has constructed for each gender type. This is how the society has functioned but the other sexual orientations, which are homosexuals, transgender and transsexuals do not know how they belong and should function in this system, …show more content…
The other part is more business-based, where the females are trying to break into the male-dominated jobs such as engineering, information technology, and management but there is a reason why these jobs have been male-dominated. These jobs are male-dominated because the constructs and decision-making nature of the job requires a strong sense of control and seared conscience of which many men have and the females in such positions are having gender identity problems because most lack those features.
Gender identity is a social issue rather than a private issue because of how each party affected by it interprets how the situation affects them and reacts accordingly. In the first case of gender identity, the latter group, which are the homosexuals, transgender, and transsexuals, feel unfairly treated in certain situations like when a worker admits to his supervisor that he is a transgender and later loses his job or when the management of a firm denies a worker promotion just because he is transsexual. Victims of these kinds of situations form groups with the interest
PROBLEMS OF GENDER …show more content…
They were able to form groups to advocate for equality among all sexual orientations for example, the permission of same-sex marriage in some provinces in Canada, but some heterosexuals are still against such ideals and this is where the government and courts come in. The homosexuals and transsexuals appealed to the courts on several occasions to allow same-sex marriage due to the bans placed on it by the provincial governments, which consists of religious heterosexuals, and had no choice but to allow it throughout Canada because the courts claim that banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and was not too different from opposite-sex marriage. With this victory, the transgender, homosexuals, and transsexuals will continue to press on to make the system accept them as they are and the heterosexuals will continue to fight back for the purity of the