WMST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Transphobia, Janet Mock, Julia Serano
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Sex: the classification of a person as male or female, assigned at birth based on genital appearance. Gender identity: a person"s internal deeply held sense of their gender. Gender expression: external manifestations of gender expressed through name, pronouns, clothing haircut etc. Transgender: an umbrella term for people whose gender identity and or expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. Cisgender: people whose gender identity and/or gender expression conform what they typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. And why might trans people object to those implications. Cissexism: the belief and treatment of transgender people as inferior to cissexual people, or the appeal to norms that enforce the gender binary, resulting in the oppression of transgender identities. Transmisogyny: combination of cissexism (gender binary is the norm and transgender is inferior) and traditional sexism.
