GWSS 257 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Cisgender, Intersectionality

• School: UW
• Department: Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: GWSS 257
• Professor: Ann E.Culligan

Document Summary

Undergraduate students: exploring differences by and intersections of. The paper utilized an intersectionality framework to examine how multiple marginalized identities intersect to form and amplify varying risks for sexual assault. Compared to cisgender men, cisgender women and transgender people had higher odds of sexual assault. A crucial first step in improving sexual assault prevention and treatment is identifying the prevalence of sexual assault and populations disproportionately affected by sexual assault. Intersectionality posits that myriad systems of stigma and discrimination functioning at multiple levels combine and interact to confer disproportionate risks among populations with marginalized social identities. Lgbt people would be at greater risk for sexual assault than their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts. Studies have shown that gender sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity separately influence risk for sexual assault among undergraduate students. For gender identity, sexual assault was highest among transgender people, followed by cisgender woman, and lowest among cisgender men.