Sascha Zimmerman At Work In Two Genders Summary

“At Work in Two Genders”

If you went face-to-face with a transgender male or female right now, how would you act? Would you treat them any differently than someone else? Sascha Zimmerman, an author for The Atlantic magazine, believes that it should not matter if they are not the gender they were when they were born. “That’s the goal we should be striving for: So what?” Said Rachel See, one of the three women she interviewed. Zimmerman’s article, “At Work in Two Genders,” is about three transgender women, and their personal stories before, during, and after transition. She describes their struggles and their happiness as told by them through quotes, telling bits and pieces of their experiences. Through these quotes and stories, Zimmerman expresses

Doing so makes it more personal, and makes it sound more like a story. She splits the article into three for the women, but she focuses on one of the women more than the others, Vivienne Ming. The article starts off with a quote from Ming, and ends with a sentence about her. Ming went through a darker path than the other women, which I think is the reason Zimmerman talked about her more than the others. She also felt that it was important to only stick to the topic of the three women, and not make it about herself at all. She picked the perfect times to tie in quotes, and even facts. Though she only put a few, the facts that she did put were only put it when it supported their quotes, and related to her experiences. For example, when Michaela Mendelsohn speaks about work for transgenders, and how she wants to make California a more suitable workplace for them, Zimmerman adds her founded research, “In fact, transgender people are, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality, four times more likely than other Americans to have a household income under $10,000 and more than twice as likely to be unemployed.” She did a wonderful job at fitting her facts in, instead of placing them at random places and making it sloppy. Her paragraphs flowed together, and when she would switch from person to person, she did it smoothly. Her use of words, quotes, and

Taking not only one, but three stories that somewhat express some of the same qualities and putting their names, professions, and quotes proves that she is reliable. Zimmerman expresses their emotions and feelings through all the things they go through, like when they describe things people did when they were women that they would not have done if they were men. Their feelings of sadness, nervousness, and the discomfort they felt were expressed in the article too She would make readers, like me, feel sympathy for the women when they would go through rough times. For example, Ming talks about the time before transition when she was depressed, and almost took her own life. “One night in her 20s, with a gun in her hand, Ming darkly thought that in her case suicide would really be euthanasia, a mercy killing for a depressive who would never be happy and who was making no particular impact on the world.” By using one’s emotions, I think that Zimmerman can persuade a reader