In the world of many genders those who identify or express outside of gender norms deal with many obstacles. In today’s society a person who identifies and dress within the gender they were born as, is considered gender norms. For those who are outside of that have many genders to pick from. Transgender is where a person switches gender pronouns to the opposite that they were born to. Transexuals are those who switch pronouns but also have surgery to get the desired body parts. Gender fluid is complex in the sense that some days a person can feel like a girl and others a boy. Gender fluids general would rather everyone use gender neutral pronouns to make it easier on them. Then there is demigirl where someone is born a girl and uses girl pronouns but, feel more comfortable in unisex or boys clothing. With demigirl there is demi boy which is the opposite of demigirl. Demiboys are comfortable in unisex and girls/womens clothing. Most of the genders have been noticed over the course of the twenty first century, The non conforming genders have been around much longer however, they were not noticed till now. Society views nonconformist in positive ways, negative ways and nonconformist struggle with themselves.
One point of view society has is in a positive way. For example in New
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York it is now legal for transgender people to use either Male or Female bathrooms(“Trans New Yorkers Catch a Bathroom Break”). In thirteen states and one-hundred thirty four cities it has become illegal for anyone to discriminate a person due to their gender identity or expression(‘Anti-discrimination law may be expanded”). In Great Britain there is an act named ‘Gender Recognition Act’ there is also the ‘Equality Act and the ‘Advancing Transgender Equality Plan” all deal with antidiscrimination(“In Defence of Gender”). Schools have also implemented rules/policies against anti-discrimination. The rules have spread to one-hundred k-12 schools and one-hundred forty-seven colleges(“Gender Expression”). All the laws,acts and rules are showing that society is recognizing just how much people are discriminated for the way they identify by gender. That those who struggle day in and day out with their gender are treated with disrespect and now society is changing that. The second viewpoint of society is negative. Many non conformist are humiliated by the public when walking down the street(“The Trans Revolution”) It is also common for them to be harassed by police(“The Trans Revolution”). Home life for people who change gender can also be just as hard. Many are kicked out by family and left to fend for themselves(“The Trans Revolution”). It can be common that their families cut them off and never speak to them again. One of the biggest problems in the U.S is unemployment. For transgender the unemployment rate is at a mind boggling twenty percent(“Anti-discrimination law may be expanded”). When it comes to individual people many believe gender can not be changed(“In Defence of Gender”). That the gender a person is born as is the gender they will always be(“In Defence of Gender”). Part of society views those who change gender in a bad light, they go against everything, are hostile and disrespect those who don’t conform to gender norms. Those who don’t support it use the wrong pronouns and could care less about the people who don’t follow gender rules. With many non conformist the way they view themselves can be rough. Many feel uncomfortable in their body, as if they don’t belong in it(“In Defence of Gender”).Those who feel that way save up to get what is called reassignment surgery(“In Defence of Gender”). The surgery is very expensive and the process of getting on the list can take years. In the time that they have to wait many develop mental health problems(“The Trans Revolution”). This leads to body dysphoria and people begin to hate their bodies so much that they hate themselves(“The Trans Revolution”). With dysphoria and other mental health disorders suicide becomes an everyday thought. About half of the young transgender communities commits suicide(“In Defence Of Gender”). In adulthood about a third have tried to commit suicide(“In Defence of Gender”).There are a lot of times where those who can’t conform feel ashamed of their bodies or out of place. They struggle to even go outside, afraid of what people will think or say. Any person who goes against gender norms struggles to fit in and go through the daily life. They have a hard time even feeling comfortable in clothing. Life is a constant hardship as everyday they walk out their front door a new form of hatred awaits. Each day a person who goes against the gender norms has person who supports them and a person who doesn’t.
Society views nonconformist in positive ways, negative ways and nonconformist struggle with themselves. Nonconformist will always struggle with who they were born as. Changing their bodies and names help however the past will always be there. With the supporters and non supports comes change. Things like the bathroom in a public place being a choice or even protection against discrimination. It’s becoming prevalent that gender norms are not how everyone chooses to live by. That more and more kids,teens, and adults are changing their gender identities and discovering who they truly
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Society is not a realm in which all of the rules are listed on paper; people naturally abide them due to their countless experiences. The results of these incidents or the incident as a whole sometimes transform itself into an unspoken code that people are assumed to know by heart. For example, humans are treated differently - usually with more respect and higher expectations (such as CEOs or famous actors and actresses) - when they are in a very high position or level in an industry. No matter how much or little they do, they are frequently noticed more by the media than anyone else. But how about those who live in their normal lives trying to bring home the bread and milk for their families? Or those who do a substantial amount of service and deeds for their communities and companies? Ty...
There is a great deal of confusion around this word because of the meaning behind it. There are two generally accepted root meanings of the word “trans” in transgenderism: across and beyond (Lund, 2012, p.8). In the case of gender nonconformists, this refers to the “beyond” definition, where they view themselves outside of the binary structure of male and female. The “across” meaning applies to those that do not believe they were born on the correct side of that line and seek to cross it, usually physically while some choose to simply self-identify. At the turn of the century, psychologists said at least 2% of American children feel this sense of “being born in the wrong body”, and with the U.S. Census of 2000 reporting over eighty thousand citizens under the age of 20, that means almost two thousand children fell into this group (Part Six: Transgender in America, 2001, p.75). While there has been a great deal of progress as far as resources and options for these “crossing” trans individuals, there have also been a lot of
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.
Every society forms different cultures and social norms how people behave and constructs stereotypes and expectations of people based on how they were seen throughout history and cultural backgrounds. Once set, norms are unlikely to be changed over time. This social construction decides which group will have benefits and privileges and which won’t. One example of these social constructed norms is gender. Gender, regardless of how different cultures define it, is generally and mostly made up of masculinity, femininity.
Fresh from the womb we enter the world as tiny, blank slates with an eagerness to learn and blossom. Oblivious to the dark influences of culture, pre-adult life is filled with a misconception about freedom of choice. The most primitive and predominant concept that suppresses this idea of free choice involve sex and gender; specifically, the correlation between internal and external sex anatomy with gender identity. Meaning, those with male organs possess masculine identities, which involve personality traits, behavior, etcetera, and the opposite for females. Manipulating individuals to adopt and conform to gender identities, and those respective roles, has a damaging, life-long, effect on their development and reflection of self through prolonged suppression. This essay will attempt to exploit the problems associated with forced gender conformity through an exploration of personal experiences.
With the “Orange Is the New Black” star, Laverne Cox being transgender and permitted to play a vivid character as “Sophia”, Caitlyn Jenner’s announcement on the Diane Sawyer interview in 2015, and the arsenal of social media, being non-cisgender (not the gender assigned at birth) in general, has been discussed more than ever. Due to the Internet’s broadness, people who met this classification are unraveling new identities such as non-binary and genderqueer (only people who are this can say this word as “queer” is a slur). Being cisgender is the norm in society. I am also non-cisgender and this is an unique thing that possessed many scars.
In this article, Shaw and Lee describe how the action of labels on being “feminine” or “masculine” affect society. Shaw and Lee describe how gender is, “the social organization of sexual difference” (124). In biology gender is what sex a person is and in culture gender is how a person should act and portray themselves. They mention how gender is what we were taught to do in our daily lives from a young age so that it can become natural(Shaw, Lee 126). They speak on the process of gender socialization that teaches us how to act and think in accordance to what sex a person is. Shaw and Lee state that many people identify themselves as being transgendered, which involves a person, “resisting the social construction of gender into two distinct, categories, masculinity and femininity and working to break down these constraining and polarized categories” ( 129). They write about how in mainstream America masculinity and femininity are described with the masculine trait being the more dominant of the two. They define how this contributes to putting a higher value of one gender over the other gender called gender ranking (Shaw, Lee 137). They also speak about how in order for femininity to be viewed that other systems of inequality also need to be looked at first(Shaw,Lee 139).
There are very few times when someone comes out as transgender and their lives are still relatively easy to manage. There are a copious number of people who oppose this lifestyle and want no one to be apart of it.... ... middle of paper ... ...
In today's world there are many different sexual identities a person can adhere to, instead of just being heterosexual or homosexual. What a sexual identity is, is how one refers to think of oneself in terms of whom one is romantically or sexually attracted to. A type of sexual identity is when a person both male or female feel like they are inside the wrong body and they wish to have a sex change. Individuals who identify themselves as transgender aren’t usually adults, in some cases it is children who go through the stages of feeling out of place with there bodies and wish to change it. Some people in today's society would find it very odd that children would wish to be in a different body, in order to understand why this is happening you would have to know what exactly is transgender and transsexual, what causes transgenderism, and the early signs of transgenderism. This phenomenon has been around for a very long time and due to the fact that there is a large misunderstanding there is much confusion when faced with it. In order for one to understand how children become transgender or transsexual one must know what transgender and transsexual mean, what causes transgenderism, and the early signs of it and be mentally prepared for what is to come. Most of the responsibility in understanding transgender children falls on the parents of transgender children.
As one looks through society, one starts to see many cracks and loopholes where one set of standards does not apply the same way for men as it does to women, and vice versa.
For example, someone who is gender fluid is described to "feel like a mix of the two traditional genders, but may feel more man some days, and more woman other days." Killerman. It is very difficult for people who do not "pass" as a specific gender to use the restroom in public. This is not an issue solely felt by transgender people. People who don't identify as the gender they were assigned at birth can face many kinds of discrimination and harassment.
Individuals who do not know what gender role they are disliked and shamed by society because they are not what society calls “normal”. The definition of normal is conforming to a standard or conforming to the expected. Society should not have the power to make an individual conform to anything. Does a person have to be born female to be female? The answer is simply no. Jenna Talackova is a prime example of this because she was born a man but knew he was a female from the beginning. These people who were born with a specific genetic gender have no control over their chemical make-up, but they do control what gender role they decide to be and no one should tell them to pick one that fits the normal standards of society. Judith Butler writes about gender is her book and how it should not be a preconceived notion. People who have non-normative gender roles struggle daily with the fact that they cannot express who they are because the public would disgrace them and society would not accept them, which are problems that can be solved by a simple lesson of not judging a book by its cover.
It is as simple as a little girl who wants to play football and dress boyish, or a boy who wants to do ballet and wear nail polish. These children may not feel like the other gender yet they still express traits that do not fit their role. Today this is hardly shocking as parents are allowing for children to express themselves in ways they choose. This blending of gender roles has allowed us to see that you cannot place a gender on a job, a color, a toy, or a
Around the world gender is genuinely seen as strictly male or female. If you step out of this “social norm,” you could be considered an outcast. This disassociation includes, biological males/females, interssexed, and transgendered individuals. These people are severely suppressed by society because their gender identification, behaviors, and even their activities deviate from the norm. Most Americans are exceedingly devoted to the concept that there are only two sexes. Therefore, the constrictive American ideals of male and female gender identities inhibits growth and acceptance of gender expression.
Society has stamped an image into the minds of people of how the role of each gender should be played out. There are two recognized types of gender, a man and a woman, however there are many types of gender roles a man or a woman may assume or be placed into by society. The ideas of how one should act and behave are often times ascribed by their gender by society, but these ascribed statuses and roles are sometimes un-welcomed, and people will assume who they want to be as individuals by going against the stereotypes set forth by society. This paper will examine these roles in terms of how society sees men and women stereotypically, and how men and women view themselves and each other in terms of stereotypes that are typically ascribed, as well as their own opinions with a survey administered to ten individuals. What I hope to prove is that despite stereotypes playing a predominant role within our society, and thus influencing what people believe about each other in terms of their same and opposite genders, people within our society are able to go against these ascribed stereotypes and be who they want and it be okay. Through use of the survey and my own personal history dealing with gender stereotyping I think I can give a clear idea as to how stereotypes envelope our society, and how people and breaking free from those stereotypes to be more individualistic.