Marginalization And Social Exclusion Summary

The umbrella term transgender is one of systematic marginalization and social exclusion. Not everyone is fortunate enough to experience a person with a gender identity outside the binary. According to conforming society there is the sex you are assigned with at birth and that determines a person's gender. It is not until one meets someone who identifies apart from their assigned sex at birth that the social construction of gender is cleared away and you begin to question reality. When people are different or "defiant", according to social norms they become a part of the unknown or otherness, that people have feared since the beginning of the development of jointly established understandings created by a select few in power. In the book Normal

Not only are people with trans identities marginalized by their gender but there are multiple facets that may intersect with their gender that creates even more disproportioned inequality. These facets create a vulnerability which can compromise the opportunities for people as individuals amid the masses. Jobs, education, politics , and social economic status being the few of many systems that work against non-conforming individuals. Spade delves into law, power, knowledge and norms and the ability to understand dispersion of power. In chapter five "Law reform and movement building" Spade suggest "four specific roles for law reform projects" making way for new opportunities for action. "All four of these roles point to an organizing theory of change focused on mass mobilization that raises demands that exceed what can be accomplished in the narrow realm of contemporary litigation and policy reform"(17). Spade discusses the transgender community peruse, alongside the regulations and infringement that policies create. Identification documents through systems, health care access or lack of and sex segregation. The opportunities for action Spade is moving for are those contrary to the lesbian and gay movements as trans is usually left out. Spade gives reasons why it is adverse for trans politics if there is no understanding of power that

With solidarity, helping one another break past the barriers that most if not all marginalized people face. In 2003 I met a girl named April, from my bully to my mentor, she taught me more than how to perfect my free throw. My basketball sister went from telling me I smelled like onions and bell peppers to opening my eyes on what it felt like not to feel like the person you're "supposed" to be. April was the reason I was able to express myself at school. My desire for the same sex was repressed on account of my religious background. April dressed like a boy , spoke the way the boys did she smelled like cologne. Without sexual engagement she taught me to be true to who I was. A Black lesbian or "stud" as labeled by others and a Hispanic joke in the sub-lesbian community as a new comer, in a primarily white environment facing adversity was not uncommon. We weren't so different from each other but our differences mattered. From high school on an action that has worked towards any fights within society would come from the initial ideals I developed learning from April. First handedly witnessing the struggles April faced and continues to go through, one that I could not personally identify with was astonishing. Experiencing the growth into the person Apollo is has been life changing. To be the person you really are despite the world being against you, takes courage. Courage that many cannot harness. Being a black person,