Gender transitioning

For minors suffering from gender dysphoria, the ethical considerations may be affected by the list of reversible and irreversible treatments, such as; puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy, and gender reassignment surgery, used in the process of transitioning. What exactly is the process of transitioning for a minor? As listed above, one of the more recent medical developments is the use of puberty blockers to treat children who are transgender. The medications, suppress the body’s production of estrogen or testosterone, and puts a pause on puberty. The second step to follow would be taking cross sex hormones, cross-sex hormones can give them a puberty that is more typical of the gender with which they identify. Next, the last step is…

transgenders’ own families are the main abusers in their daily lives. Harassments towards transgenders has lead to 41 percent of them to attempt suicide, trying to escape their diversity the world has seemed to have marked as shameful. Pronouns are very mixed up in our world today. Male and female pronouns were the dominant pronouns used for decades, until gender neutral pronouns came to light by linguists, lexicographers, grammarians, and etymologists as they reached the issue of transgenders…

Transition of an individual is usually difficult; they face issues and challenges along the road yet are able to discover themselves better after the consequence. Transitioning can be confronting, exciting or even demanding. Tom Brennan, the protagonist in The Story of Tom Brennan is haunted by an accident and is faced with a hard transition, and as with the other members of his family, with the use of first person and colloquial language, J.C. Burke demonstrates the outcome of a transition can…

of two mommies? It is a very hard question that may or may not come up, but I believe it will because that is how children are. They like changes on their own terms, but do not really relish things that are out of their own definition of "normal" which is usually shaped by their peers, friends, and even television. If he is the only child with two mommies this may lead to teasing, bullying, or worse. This would lead Aidan to become withdrawn, sad, and alone. As I said I am a big supporter of…

It may come as a shock to some families when their child claims they are the opposite gender. Evie, as young as 2 years old told her mother she was a boy and refused to associate with stereotypical “girly things”. Evie is transgender and her parents described her as “a boy’s brain with girl parts” (Farwell). Throughout the rest of Evie’s adolescents, her name was changed to Evan and since then he has been living as a boy. This is only one of the thousands of cases of children identifying…

before they begun to speak. They even stated that everyone has a different experience when transitioning. How small the population the transgender community is, the lacked of education, and how there is no trans language. Which brings up a point Adelynn brought up in her speech that there is no one experience, each person has a different story. It was also brought up about transgender are being confronted on all fronts. Meaning they are treated harshly by both the straight community…

Just One of the Guys ` In the book, Just One of the Guys, Kristen Schilt brings awareness to the persistent struggle of gender inequality in the workplace. To undercover these disparities, one may assume that Schilt would interview each gender and ask them to report how they believe they are being treated compared to the other gender. However, this book gives a unique perspective from transgender men and women, which allows understanding from a person who has had a first-hand account of how…

Gender among other aspects of social life are identified differently between societies. Each society has a different view on the rights and wrongs in their daily lives. The term gender is what identifies you throughout society. Gender roles and norms are prestigious to the socialization of life. Gender is identified by an individual’s behavior and the “gender roles are based on norms, or standards, created by society. (Boundless 2016)” There is a constant struggle within a society when deciding…

The gender binary creates a standard for who is male and who is female. These pressures are dangerous in terms of the ways in which they influence trans people’s ideas of what they should look like. Transitioning is expensive. Obtaining hormones without medical care is also expensive. Facial feminization surgery can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 (Featured FFS Packages). Society and its gender binary that doesn’t allow for much devince away from male or female boxes forces trans people to…

the Equal Pay Act of 1963 "men and women [must] be given equal pay for equal work in the same establishment." (Facts About Equal Pay and Compensation Discrimination). Despite this law and many others striving for gender equality in the workplace, we still have a gender wage gap of about 80 cents, and women make less money than men is almost every field of work (Pay Equity & Discrimination). In Kristin Schilt 's book Just One Of The Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality,…