The question of why women lag in the workplace baffles researchers and lay people alike. While women are entering professions at rates equal to men, their rise is slower than men’s, and advancing to the top is very rare. They are represented in small numbers at the top in fields from science to arts to business. Do women stall because of their personal choices, or their cognitive and emotional characteristics, whether innate or socialized? Are the obstacles to women’s advancement located within their environments (unique to their gender)? These questions were very difficult to answer until now. Trans people are bringing entirely new ways of approaching the discussion. Because trans people are now staying in the same careers—and sometimes the …show more content…
Take for example the TV series Orange is the New Black and Transparent, which portray transgender individuals as they are and not as the show's comic relief. America is becoming more and more fascinated with the lives of transgender people, most recently in light of recent debates over controversial bathroom laws. Although the spotlight on transgender topics has mostly been focused on trans women, transgender men have been largely left out of the narrative. Americans preoccupation with feminine beauty contributes to this imbalance. Women’s appearances get more attention, women’s actions are commented on and critiqued more than men, so in that world, it just makes sense that people will focus more on trans women than trans men. Most surveys ask people to identify as male or female but not cisgender or transgender, therefore, the size of the transgender population in America is unclear. One study suggests there are about 700,000 trans people in the …show more content…
Men who were raised and socialized as female describe the ways they were treated differently as soon as the world perceived them as male: they gained professional respect; they exuded authority, and were less criticized. On the other hand, they lost intimacy and caused fear. From courtrooms to playgrounds to prisons to train stations, at work and at home, with friends and alone, trans men reiterate how fundamentally different it is to experience the world as a man. Cultural sexism in the world is very real when an individual has lived on both sides of the coin.
This cultural sexism is often more visible to trans men. They say it is easier to have a low or no disclosure and keep a low profile as compared to trans women. Trans men often are not recognized as trans, which means they can be less vulnerable to obvious trans phobia. Imagine a 6’2” woman and a 5’4” man. The woman will be often more conspicuous. As compared to trans women, trans men feel they can just walk through the world and not have anybody look at them
Transitions in life come in many forms. Some people may graduate from high school and move out for college. Other people get married and buy their first house. Although all of these examples seem fairly ordinary, some transitions that people may go through are not as common. In the book Just One of the Guys? by Kristen Schilt, Schilt depicts the truth behind gender inequality in the workplace from the perspective of transgender men who were once biological women. Through their transition, these people experienced natural difference schemas, inequality depending on race and class, and differences between stealth and open transitions.
For instance, sociologists would argue that characteristics of the male gender in a given society include independence, and dominance whereas females express more passive behavior. Gender identity, on the other hand is an individual’s sense of their gender or in other words, their sense as to whether they are feminine or masculine. Therefore, transgender is a term related to “people whose gender identity is different from the gender commonly socially assigned to them on the basis of their biological sex” (Morrow & Messinger, 2006, p. 7).“Biological theories assume that gender should be consistent with biological sex and there are only two genders and two sexes” which does not correspond to transgender people. Furthermore, transgender is also used as a general term to include people such as transsexuals and cross-dressers
Transgendered people have a different and unique fight than the rest of the community. Transgendered peoples not only have the issues of “coming out,” (as others in the communities do) but also becoming a different gender. There are different obstacles that Trans people have to face.
Transgender is an umbrella term, meaning an individual’s gender-identity does not align with their assigned sex at birth. Although transgender is a protected class in eighteen states, these individuals still face discrimination within the country and around the world (“Non-Discrimination Laws”). Transgender is not a lifestyle, no one chooses to live their life constantly being discriminated against. Transgender issues should be more educated on and their lives should be more protected. The most common issue transgender individuals face every day is bathroom use.
The depiction of transgender women characters in mainstream television has been offensive, insulting and derogatory. An article from GLADD called “Victims or Villains: Examining Ten Years of Transgender Images on Television”, examines 102 episodes and storylines on mainstream television that contained transgender characters since 2002. Of these, more than half were characterized as containing negative representations of transgender. In 2007 only 1% of television series had a recurring transgender character, which has slowly increased to 4% in 2013. Negative portrayal of transgender TV characters.
Injustice at Every Turn: A Report from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey. Rep. National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 2011. Web. The Web. The Web.
The eye opening article utilized for this analysis is titled, “Trans Women at Smith: The Complexities of Checking ‘Female’” ,written by contributing writer, Sarah Fraas on August 24, 2014 (pg 683-685). Fraas starts off by introducing the audience with a school that accepts trans women, Mills College, and talks about how glorious this decision is. The author then begins to talk about other schools not as accepting as Mills, especially Smiths College. She spews many facts and analysis on the issues trans women face today throughout the article including how transgender women are not gaining enough support to succeed, most transgendered women are neglected in school, and the fact that many have been accused of being a woman for the “wrong” reason. She also mindfully includes the image of a woman of color holding up a sign saying, “Support your sisters, not just your CIS-ters!”. The author utilizes this image to show people that we are all one whether we
Transsexuals, defined simply is a person who from the very core of there being feels like they are in the wrong orientation and transgenderism is that state of being when one's gender doesn't match those feelings. In the case of transgender children they usually feel like god made a mistake and in some case scenarios boys particularly try to alleviate the situation themsel...
Imagine going through life believing that you were born into the wrong body. This is how a transgender feels as they go through life. A transgender is a person who whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to male or female sex. This topic is very controversial due to many arguments about the differences between the male and female physique. The natural biological differences between males and a females play a huge role in this controversy.
People do not seem to raise as much attention to transgender males playing sports because the transgender males are the ones with the disadvantage. They might have lower testosterone levels than the other males competing. Transgender women competing in sports is a completely different story. Transgender women might have higher testosterone levels than the other women competing. There is medication for transgenders to take which makes their testosterone levels match the average level for the
Transguys can’t like makeup or they are viewed as not masculine enough to be a “real” man. There is so many problems in the trans community and what people think of transgenders, if you don’t get or want bottom surgery then sometimes you aren’t viewed as actually trans or can be seen as male or female. People's transitions all are different, some people want top surgery some don’t. Why this is relevant is even in the trans community there is fighting because the pressure to be cis even though that’s not who they
Within the recent years, the transgender movement has become more apparent than ever. With television shows like “RuPaul’s Drag Race”, “Keeping It Up With Cait” and “I Am Jazz”, the voices of transgender people are more public than ever. Celebrities like Caitlyn Jenner and Laverene Cox are changing the face of the movement by showing people that it is never too late to be their true selves. American laws acknowledge the rights of transgender people, but not in a positive way. These are just people trying to be their best selves.
No one wants to feel like they do not belong or like they are not cared for. Transgender people are just like everyone else and deserve to be treated equally to cisgendered people. According to Sam Killerman, being transgendered means living "as a member of a gender other than that expected based on sex assigned at birth." This definition is extremely important because a transgender person is still a person.
Gender stratification limits women’s achievement in their lives. In term of jobs, women continue to enter a narrow passage of occupations range. Compared to men, women often face greater handicap in seeking job because the higher income and prestigious jobs are more likely held by men. In the workplace institution, men are also prior to a faster promotion. There is a case where women were allowed to get promoted to a more advance posi...
The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines transgenderism as individuals that classify themselves as the gender that is not their biological one or the sex that assigned to them at birth (Merriam Webster Dictionary, 2015). Often times, they do not feel comfortable in their own physical body, do not conform or “fit in” with individuals of their same gender and tend to identify and behave more closely to those of the opposite sex. Transgender people may present themselves or demonstrate their identity issues through their appearance such as dress or hair styles and through earlier childhood behaviors such as their choice of toys and friends (Answers to your Questions About Transgender People, 2014). It may