MCGS 310Z Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Caitlyn Jenner, Trans Woman, Gender Identity
10 Jan 2019
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Isolation/lack of community: not always comfortable explaining their choices. It gets tiring always having to explain self. Medical treatment and insurance: discrimination and misunderstanding from medical personnel, lack of insurance a. Caitlyn jenner: rich, doesn"t understand these issues of transpeople who arent rich. Relationships: changes to a relationship, when to tell potential partners. 42% of the time shelter staff force transgender shelter-seekers to live as wrong gender to be able to stay. Transgender people are 4x more likely to live in poverty. Experience unemployment at 2x the rate, poc 4x. 2016 as of oct, 23 trans people murdered in the usa. 1654 of these in central and south america. 22% personally know or work with transgender person. 66% express favorable feelings (compared to 13% of people who do not know a trans person)
