Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Christine Jorgensen, Jared Leto, Halloween Costume

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Trans in the new black: emerging transgender identities on tv. Moves away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who cross over (trans-) the boundaries constructed by their culture to define and contain that gender. Denotes a range of gender experiences, subjectivities and presentations that fall across, between or beyond stabe categories of man and woman. Transsexual: i also found that the use of transsexual often led to the wrong impression that somehow what i"m going through is sexually related . Genderqueer: i consider myself genderqueer because i feel tuncomfotable with the gender binary, and i am unhappy when i feel pressured to conform to the binary gender role expectations of women and men. Nonbinary: i don"t really see myself as one sex over the other. I am biologically female, although i have had ftm top surgery.