What does it mean to be classified as “transgender?” When an individual feels his or her biological gender does not match his or her gender identity, he or she may be considered transgender. This feeling of confusion may lead to frustration as well as more complicated issues related to mental health like depression. Some individuals may make the decision to medically change their biological gender to match their gender identity. One such individual, Caitlyn Jenner, made this transition and prompted additional discussion and promoted acceptance of transgender individuals.
Bruce Jenner was born on October 28, 1949 to William and Estelle Jenner in Mount Kisco, New York where he then grew up. He was the second of four children; Pam, Lisa, and Burt.
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His dad participated in the U.S. Army Olympics in Nuremberg, Germany and his grandfather had ran in several Boston Marathons. When Jenner was in elementary his teacher would have races and he would end up being the fastest everytime. Jenner believed and lived the American Dream, that anyone can accomplish anything as long as they work hard and never give up (Notable Sports Figures).
Before his first year of high school his family decided to move to Newtown, Connecticut. During high school Jenner learned that he was very talented at multiple sports including; water skiing, football, basketball, and track. He was a pole vault and high jump champion, and won three Eastern States water skiing competitions. As senior year was coming to an end he decided to go to college which would then make him ineligible to get drafted to the Vietnam War and also to play college football. He later accepted a football scholarship from Graceland College in Iowa; however, during his freshman year he acquired a knee injury that forbid him from continuing therefore he ran track instead. In 1970 at his first meet he ran the decathlon and set a school record
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He was married three different times and they all ended in divorce. His first wife was Chrystie Crownover. They got married after his graduation in 1973 and they later moved to San Jose. They both acquired jobs, Chrystie was a flight attendant and Jenner sold insurance. They ended up having two children, Burt who was born September 6, 1978 and Cassandra who was born June 10, 1980. Later in 1981 they ended up divorcing because Bruce opened up to her and said he was struggling with gender identity. She was very shocked and heartbroken because she knew should couldn’t stay married to him during this; however, she was still very supportive and suggested therapy to help him. A few months after their divorce Jenner ended up falling in love with Elvis Presley’s girlfriend, Linda Thompson. They had two kids together also, Brandon who was born June 4, 1981 and Brody who was born August 21, 1983. Those two wound up getting divorce in 1986 as a result of Bruce’s busy travel schedule. After these two divorces he began to get very depressed until someone special came into his life. When Bruce met Kris Kardashian in 1990, his life changed completely. Kris and him fell right in love and resulted in them getting married in 1991. He became the stepfather of her four children; Kourtney, Kimberly, Khloé, and Robert. They also had two kids of their own, Kendall was born on November 3, 1995 and Kylie
Caitlyn Jenner was born as William Bruce Jenner on October 28, 1949 and was born to William Hugh and Esther R. Jenner. William and Esther also have three other children, Pam, Lisa and Burt. Unable to find out much on Bruce during the first stage of life according to Erickson’s stages of psychosocial development which was trust vs. mistrust. Did you know that Bruce’s mother stayed home with the children? Bruce’s father was home every night and the family had dinner together.
Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. Although there is much confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the date according to his estate. The career biography of Jim Thorpe reads like an encyclopedia of sports, encompassing virtually every major athletic event available. In the 1912 Olympic Games at Stockholm, he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events. In the same year, he led his Carlisle Indian School team to the national collegiate championship, scoring 25 touchdowns and 198 points. Following the college football season, Thorpe went on to play 6 years of Major League Baseball. Meanwhile, he managed to lead the Canton Bulldogs football team to unofficial world championships in 1916, 1917, and 1919. When he eventually finished his playing days in 1928 with the Chicago Cardinals, Jim Thorpe had become an athletic attraction that crowds flocked to see. Thorpe died on March 28, 1953. In 1950, the nation's press selected Jim Thorpe as the most outstanding athlete of the first half of the 20th Century and in 2000, he was awarded ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century. Then came that grand summer of 1912. As a child, Thorpe became his athletic father's protégé, at times running 20 miles home from school. "I never was content," he said, "unless I was trying my skill in some game against my fellow playmates or testing my endurance and wits against some member of the animal kingdom."
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
John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17 1942. Gacy had an uneventful childhood up until the age of eleven. While out playing he had been struck on the head by a swing. Subsequently he suffered fainting fits for many years.
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.
Transgender is defined by Wikipedia as, “the state of one's gender identity (self-identification as woman, man, neither or both) or gender expression not matching one's assigned sex.” The article explains how a transgender individual may define themselves as having the characteristics that are normally associated with a particular gender but will choose to identify elsewhere on the gender continuum. It use’s the love story of Rhys Ernst and Zackary Drucker as an example. It took five years for Zackary to transition from male to female and Rhys from female to male. But both truly believe that they were born the wrong gender, and choose to correct this wrong with hormone treatments, surgery and personality changes that to the more tradition eye may seem absurd and abnormal. This is one of the main reason such transgender couples are talking about their transformations. To beach this gap between transgender’s and the rest of the population. It is believed that by educating society, we are more likely to accept something than if we do not fully understand the parameters that surround such an issue.
However, an umbrella term, or a word that covers more than one specific topic, such as transgender, does not only describe people who identify as the opposite sex; it also describes people who identify with both male and female genders, people who identify as genderless, or people who fluctuate between two or more genders. Many transgender people often refer to themselves simply as “trans.” Transgender does not define one’s sexual orientation, however; gender is considered a social construct while sexuality is not.
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.
So what does transgender mean and what is transgender identity disorder? According to the American Psychological Association," transgender" is "umbrella term whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they wer...
Jenner was born on May 17, 1749, in Berkeley, a small town just outside of England. He was orphaned at the young age of 5 and lived with his older siblings in which he learned how to be independent. This also taught him perseverance,
A good portion of society is unknowingly misinformed about these kinds of people. When an individual identifies themselves as transgender, it means that they feel that their biological gender does not match their psychological gender. To put that into a simple man’s term, the individual feels they “were born in the wrong body”. For example, a man feels that he was meant to be born a woman and vice versa. It does sound rather unusual, but why does that matter?
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...
Kardashian family matriarch, Kris Jenner, turned 60 on November 5, and said goodbye to her tumultuous 59th year. According Huffington Post, Kris Jenner filed papers in March 2015 to legally end her twenty-three year marriage to Bruce Jenner, after a year-long separation. Three months later, Kris Jenner's ex-husband confirmed rumors that their marriage dissolved in the wake of Bruce Jenner's gender transition. Reality television specials commissioned by Kris Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner revealed that both struggled to put aside hurt feelings and establish a friendship in the wake of their divorce and Caitlyn's transition. In the Kardashian family's reality special Keeping Up with the Kardashians:About Bruce..., Kris Jenner revealed a more vulnerable side of her personality, openly mourning the lose of her marriage, and revealing her struggle to come to terms with Caitlyn's perceptions of their relationship. By the time her 60th birthday
Gender is seen as a spectrum, and one can fall anywhere on this spectrum. Again, according to Sam Killerman, being transgendered means living "as a member of a gender other than that expected based on sex assigned at birth." Just because a person is born with male genitalia does not mean they have to be male.
Clinically speaking, a person who was assigned female at birth but identifies and lives as a man is referred to as a transsexual man, or transman, or female-to-male (FTM); a male-to-female (MTF) person is a transsexual woman or transwoman (Glicksman). Some people drop the transgender label after they have transitioned to their new gender. However, they want to be referred to only as a man or a woman. But what if our gender identity, our sense of being a boy or being a girl, does not match our physical body? From a very early age we will start to feel increasingly uncomfortable. For some this is a mild discomfort, for others it is so traumatic they would rather die than continue to live in the wrong body. Unfortunately as transsexual people are a small minority of the population the condition has been labeled by Psychiatrists as "Gender Identity Disorder". With the transgendered, the disordered assumption is that the