KNES 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lpga, Gallium Arsenide, Lgbt
23 Apr 2016
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Umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. Persons who do not fit normative relations between sex and gender. Transphobia is manifested in a number of ways, including violence, harassment, and discrimination: employment, education, housing, assault. Altering one"s birth sex is not a one-step procedure; it is a complex process that occurs over a long period of time. Transition may include any one or combination of the following: cultural. Living to varying degrees, the gender they identify with (name, pronouns, generally the first step, and may be the only step: legal. Documents changed in terms of gender assigned at birth (birth certificates, drivers licence, passport. Every province is different in terms of legal transition: medical. Trans activists have worked very hard to achieve this in the province (wren. Specific to trans persons, alberta recently included gender identity and gender expression in human rights act and the bill of rights.
