Gsf 115 : Transgenders In Assessment Answers

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Transgender in the society

Usually the people of society often restrict the gender classification to only two categories man and woman. OBGLTC believes that there is another gender existing in the society named as transgender. Transgender are the people who believe they are trapped inside a different body and have undergone through a full or partial reversal of gender (Schilt and Bratter, 2015).

Transgender people are often subjected to exclusion from the society and across several countries. People have been mocking and rejecting this third kind of gender from a long time. The level of discrimination and violence the transgender face has been a reason of decline of their current state. The whole community of transgender is in the state of peril due to the discrimination they face at several levels. It is believed that transgender people’s rate of unemployment and poverty is four times more likely than the normal people. Due to mistreatment and harassment faced by transgender at jobs, they refrain getting employed and make a living out of it. This often ends in transgender people begging on streets or involved in as a sex worker (Westbrook and Schilt, 2014).

The word transgender was often considered a taboo from early years across the globe. More recently, the population of this community has tripled since 1990s. In USA, a huge percentage increase can be seen and the people of US have started adopting this gender and accepting this community as a third gender (Reisner et al., 2016). The people have started believing that sexual orientation is not the governing factor and there is no reason that suggests these transgender are any different from the other genders (Meyer et al., 2017). While some countries have willfully accepted this community, but there are some Asian countries like India and Bangladesh where transgender face criticism on the grounds of their sexual orientation. Transgender have been looked upon as a social deviant and have been mocked on their looks. Some countries are yet to accept this community and the people have a perception of transgender being a criminal.

According to my opinion, it is important that the society should now start accepting this third gender and should consider these people on the same ground. The civil society should respect their identity and the families should start accepting their individuality. Transgender people have as equal rights as a normal person does and there should not be any exception. Transgender in a society are just like any other random people born in a body that doesn’t depict who they are as a person inside.  

References:

Meyer, I.H., Brown, T.N., Herman, J.L., Reisner, S.L. and Bockting, W.O., 2017. Demographic characteristics and health status of transgender adults in select US regions: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2014. American journal of public health, 107(4), pp.582-589.

Reisner, S.L., Deutsch, M.B., Bhasin, S., Bockting, W., Brown, G.R., Feldman, J., Garofalo, R., Kreukels, B., Radix, A., Safer, J.D. and Tangpricha, V., 2016. Advancing methods for US transgender health research. Current opinion in endocrinology, diabetes, and obesity, 23(2), p.198.

Schilt, K. and Bratter, J., 2015. From multiracial to transgender?Assessing attitudes toward expanding gender options on the US Census. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2(1), pp.77-100.

Westbrook, L. and Schilt, K., 2014. Doing gender, determining gender: Transgender people, gender panics, and the maintenance of the sex/gender/sexuality system. Gender & Society, 28(1), pp.32-57.