WOMS240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Trans Woman, Gender Binary, Black Market
13 Jan 2018
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Transgender violence, what does transgender mean? i. ii. iii. Gender identity: person"s perception or internal experience of gender. Cisgender: individuals whose gender identity matches their sex category assigned at birth: some theories related to transgender i. Social construction: trans identities are a response to the social construction of binary gender categories and their rigid expectations: medicalization: trans identities only exist because of the medical technology iii. iv. available to allow for transition. Brain sex theory: all individuals have an unexplainable internal understanding of the sex they should be. For trans people, their brain sex is different than the sex they are assigned at birth. Being trans has been historically undesirable, so figuring out what causes it is always raised in this discussion of what to do with it : where"s the t? i. ii. iii. Transgender people have been systematically excluded from women"s rights movements as well as gay rights movements.
