SOCB22H3 Lecture 10: Transgender
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Mock the invasive, ridiculous questions that they are asked all the time. When they turn the question around it show that they don t want to answer these questions, just like we don t. How people who are transgender are very fluid and are faced with violence so they get us to see the ridiculousness. Pointing out that a lot of options (example: surgery) are not available to the average person. Emerges as a category in the 1950s. People who cross from one gender category to another, without necessarily having or wanting the genitals that traditionally signal the crossing, are doing something new. Having a public gender identity that does not depend on the matching genital is new. What is not new is that there is still only male or female, even if one s lived experience combines both in some way mckenna and kessler: our language limits us, because we still have binaries (man/woman).
