OPTIONAL: Transgender Guest Lecture Flashcards
Gender dysphoria:
- diagnosis used to medically treat trans folks
- Do not have to have gender dysphoria or medically transition to be trans
can you be cis and non-conforming
ya
difficulties being trans:
- Encouraged by parents to not tell anyone unless she had to
- Fear of missing out on opportunities → tried to keep as quiet as possible
- Approached conversations with shame → didn’t have confidence to disguise it
violence
- Higher for trans women
- Highest for black trans women
what is trans?
a gift :)
Passing
Passing for cisgender → can’t tell that you’re trans
percent who transition and regret it
less than 1%
% of Gen Z knows someone who is trans or uses they/them pronouns
50
what is gender performance?
a societal structure :)
Puberty blockers
Prevent onset of puberty to buy time
- Get older to make informed decisions
- Have agency without harming their body
- Need to make a decision at 16 years otherwise body will be harmed
how long have people been medically transitioning?
since the 1930s
Puberty blockers in Scandinavian countries since the 1980s
what is often questioned for trans?
Abilities and intelligence PLUS Women are judged on the way they look rather than their intelligence
Gender fluid
fluidity to gender
- Gender ebbs and flows: woman → man → non-binary
- Based off how their feeling in a single day
age for surgery
18
hormones for AMAB
estrogen
- Breast, wider hips
- Voice won’t lower, won’t get facial hair
- Go through normal puberty for “female”
hormones for AFAB
T
- Body hair, chest, voice lowers
- Puberty blockers stop female puberty effects
what is covered in BC
genital surgery
what is not covered in BC
facial surgery, breast augmentation, hormones
Discrimination in the LGBTQ+ community
- mostly online
- some misogonystic and hateful messages from LGBTQ+ community
most persistent hate
- trans exclusionary radicals (feminists)
- People who believe that trans women are inherently dangerous and are sick and need to be segregated from the rest of society → washroom, changing facilities, etc.
What to do if someone comes out to you as trans
Be direct and ask:
- What can I do to support you?
- What are your pronouns?
Best way to avoid mistakes: just ask!
what to NOT ask
DO NOT ASK questions about their bodies or what they are planning to do for transitioning.
Dysphoria in childhood affects
- Depressed → forced to present themselves in a way that didn’t align in the way that they are
- Puberty started at 11
- Horror that came with their body → traumatizing
- Urgency of needing to change sex or they were going to kermit sewer-side
Gender identity
innate and in your brain
- Way this is performed → social construct
Sex
assigned at birth
“Transgender”
- Umbrella term → anyone who doesn’t traditionally perform gender
- Drag queens / drag kings
Transexual
someone who has moved forward (or intends to) with medical transition
- Not everyone likes this word…
Gender dysphoria:
media term for discomfort coming with gender identity and sex assigned
- Most with this choose to medically transition in order to relieve it
no go: tranny
considered hate speech
Transvestite
way to medicalize folks who cross-dress
- Used since the 70s
- Invented in 1910
