HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Christine Jorgensen, Heteronormativity

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1920
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

Document Summary

Heteronormativity: belief that human beings that human beings fall into two distinct complimentary categories: male and female. Based on sexual as well as marital relationships. Includes how we align our sex category as well as our gender. Those who identify and criticize heteronormativity say that it distorts discourse by stigmatizing deviant concepts of both sexuality and gender and makes certain types of self- expression more difficult. Trans terminology: what links trans identities together is their rejection of a normative experience of sex/gender and biology. Trans also includes more specific identities, beyond these broader categories such as cross dressers, drag kings and queens, butch lesbians, androgynies (display a neutral embodiment)- just to name a few. There are many different identities going on under this umbrella of trans and that a single individual may identify with more than two identities or categories.