GWST 1501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Janet Mock, Gender Binary, Trans Woman

• School: York University
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 1501
• Professor: Kristine Klement

Document Summary

Susan stryker: gender is socially constructed and performative. How gender is something that we do and it is how we do it, is how to recognize who we are. (listen if you wana know, i didn"t get it) Transphobia --> is the way how gender binary is policed. Examples of transphobia --> government forms only 2 boxes, we force people to confirm to one or the other box. --> access to health care, affects suicide rates. The media hyper feminizes trans women --->focuses more on feminine trans. Trans women"s bodies are objectified by media ---> focuses on sex & genitals surgeries and asking women including janet mock asking them a bout surgeries about their bodies. It is refusing trans women to their body parts.