FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gay Liberation, Gender Variance, Cisgender

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

Document Summary

Cisgender: you do identify with gender assigned at birth trans. Cisnormativity = is the pervasive assumption that those assigned male birth grow up to be men and those assigned female at birth will ultimately become women. Stonewall = known as the launch of the gay liberation movement, stonewall was in fact lead by trans and gender variant individuals in 70s. Actually were working for trans rights but is invisibilized. Mandatory for people to wear 3 items of clothing of your gender, police came, community joined to support the movement. A latina leading the movement, and african american. Worked to include trans rights in gay rights bill. Debates on bathroom only now, trans are still not protected. Cisgenderism is the system of oppression that denies, belittles or pathologizes gender id that do not meet the cultural expectations associated with their assigned gender. Ex: google, transgender is: wrong, illness, mental health issue, bullshit.