Transgender Terms And Conceptual Analysis

An “Introduction to Transgender Terms and Concepts” is a reading that discusses the differences between Transvestites, Cross Dressers, Transsexuals, and Transgenders. It is also discussed in the reading how one actually thinks and acts leading them into the LGBT community.

Transgender is a term for people whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, and voice or body characteristics. “Trans” is sometimes used as shorthand

People of color in general fare worse than White transgender people, with African American transgender individuals faring far worse than all other transgender populations. Many transgender people are also the targets of hate crimes. They are also the victims of subtle discrimination which includes everything from glances or glares of disapproval or discomfort to invasive questions about their body parts (Bassichi, Lee, & Spade, 2011).

Discrimination laws and hate crimes laws encourage us to understand oppression as something that happens when individuals use bias to deny someone a job because of race or sex or some other characteristic, or beat up or kill someone because of such a characteristic. This way of thinking, sometimes called the "perpetrator perspective" makes people think about racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism in terms of individual behaviors and bad intentions rather than wide-scale structural oppression that often operates without some obvious individual actor aimed at denying an individual person an opportunity (Bassichi, Lee, & Spade). Not everyone who is “different” is “different”; in understanding people in general, we learn that we are all original and are different in some sort. Those differences are what make us unique in our

Over the years Trans and queers community rights have change tremendously in many ways. Recently the state of Georgia passed a law for gay marriage with struck and nerve with most. Transgender people experience rampant workplace discrimination, may be met with challenges to their parental relationships, lack sufficient access to quality healthcare free from discrimination and face difficulties in obtaining appropriate name and gender designations on their identity documents. I do not think we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith of others regardless of their fellow mate. The LGBT community is trying to make a better day for their family and their community. The article talked about how the Trans and queers in prison were treated different in prison in many ways. Lack of awareness on the part of prison officials and staff also leads to trans invisibility in the prison system, as most corrections officers cannot determine between trans and queer people. As the use of alias by prison inmates is considered a violation of security, prison guards will refuse to call transgender by their desired names or the appropriate forms of address. Queers normally received the worst treatment in prison; a certain percentage of transgenders may keep quiet about their true