Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Binary, Pangender

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Ws 2161: lecture 3 - trans is the new black: transgender identities in pop culture. " moves away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who cross over (transgress) the boundaries constructed by their culture to define and contain that gender. " (stryker 2008) " denotes a range of gender experiences, subjectivities, and presentations that fall across, between or beyond stable categories of "man" and "woman. " (hines 2010) Some may have the desire to: properly belong to another gender, fill some space not yet clearly defined, get away from conventional expectations, socially transition but not physically. Terminology & language: transsexual, historically used when surgical modifications employed. Can sound overly clinical or imply the issue is closely linked to sexual behaviour. I am biologically female, although i have had ftm top surgery. I am not on testosterone, as i don"t feel like being labeled male would make me feel closer to what i am.