SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gender Binary, Trans Woman, Solitary Confinement
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Soc219: lecture 3: disrupting the carceral, disrupting the gender binary. India also has a 3rd gender options, but this law hasn"t made life easier unless in upper class or upper cast. People of lower cast are still discriminated against. Gender and sexuality are regulated by the state. I. e. health cards, driver"s license, schools: sports. Gender as a mechanism of policing and control: not just by the state, but the social world is also structured around the gender binary. Women and man as gender identity terms. 2-sprit people were very valued, but with colonialism created a gender binary. 76% of people have considered suicide as they didn"t fall into the gender binary. 50% trans people have been discriminated against at work. Health: doctors often take them as a joke. Gender identity = internal, individual feeling of gender. 2- spirit, are lgbtq people and were well respected before. Intersex = reproductive system, hormones are not easily identified as male or females.
