Essays Tagged: "Transgender"

The origins of homophobia and the power the NSW Government is able to exert over sexuality.

ity for young people.Discrimination remains a reality for members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities in NSW. Homophobic prejudices that fuel this discrimination are often ...

(8 pages) 102 0 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Cross Gender Identification or Gender Identity Disorder. What is it?

Gender Dysphoria (feeling of pain and anguish when gender identity and physical sex do not match), transgender (people questioning their gender identity including crossdressers, transsexuals, and int ... deviant by a large part of society, even therapists. As a result, there are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth institutionalized for simply being who they are. On the other han ...

(2 pages) 163 2 4.9 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Rights For All People's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

stioning or are unsure. This refers to all not just homosexuals. Gender identity refers to those of transgender, which may change through medical procedures.), has been brought up more and more often. ... ghout the U.S. and the world everyday. One out of ten people are or will be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or are questionable, meaning they're not sure. This means that out of one million peopl ...

(3 pages) 144 1 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

A Debate Forbids Silence - an essay about discrimination in the GLBT community.

sometimes hatred. One group that "deviates" from societal norms is the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender - the GLBT - community. Currently, there are over 1,000 benefits, rights, and protection ... uals are mentally unbalanced and are undeserving of federal protection. It is unknown if lesbian or transgendered people participate in a similar activity.In an interview with the Washington Post, Sha ...

(8 pages) 104 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

How has your social issues class influenced your view of the future?

ferent readings such as "Lessons from the Intersexed" by Kessler, and also by attending lectures on transgender given by different professors such as Halberstam. I would like to use the word transgend ... , after watching the movie "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and understanding the message revealed about transgender people I realized that these people are human also, just different from what we are, the ...

(6 pages) 73 0 4.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Homosexual Marriages and Civil Unions.

hode Island, New Mexico, and New York) have no specific laws concerning gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender marriages. A few states allow civil unions between homosexual couples. Currently a homos ...

(3 pages) 42 0 4.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Diversity and its Role within the Airline

uncils focuses on the female travelers, and the other council focuses on the "Lesbian/Gay/Bi-Sexual/Transgender (LGBT) travelers" (Kinkaid, 2008). American Airlines is known as the first airline that ...

(3 pages) 25 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Family Structures

r stays home to cook and clean. Together they have two sons and two daughters. One of the sons is a transgender while the other son is raising a daughter without her mother. Of the two daughters, one ...

(3 pages) 3 0 0.0 Apr/2012

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Cultural Myths

Connection: Critical Thinking and TransgenderThey say, "You can take a boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of t ...

(5 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2012

Subjects: Humanities Essays

gender in children

entities are less common. Research is only beginning to tell the story of what it's like growing up transgender in a gender-fixed world. Recent developmental explorations of transgender identities sug ... such as using cross-gender pronouns or gender-neutral names; other strategies include immersion in transgender communities and disclosures about being transgender (Grossman & D'Augelli, 2006; Par ...

(6 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters