WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sexual Revolution, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Homophobia

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Institutional oppression: like the blood ban, hormones for trans people. Implications of discrimination: high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, alcohol and drug dependence. Toby"s law in ontario, trans people using gender-specific services. Transition: changing name and pronouns, id and gender markers, clothes and style (social), medical transition hormones, sexual reassignment surgery. The gap between what we assume people do sexually and what they actually do is enormous . The social construction of sexuality: sexual categories, sports and courting, sexism, racism, heterosexism, sexual rights. Sexual orientation: the direction of one"s sexual attraction, not a set of absolute categories, society makes the categories but they are subject to change. Allyship is a process, not an identity. Heterosexism: discriminatory practices that favor heterosexuals over persons who engage in other types of sexual orientations. Sports: belief that sports reveal and enhance national and moral character, we expect people in sports to represent national attributes and a certain.