OPTIONAL: Transgender Guest Lecture

Question 1

Gender dysphoria:

Answer 1

• diagnosis used to medically treat trans folks
  
  • Do not have to have gender dysphoria or medically transition to be trans

Question 2

can you be cis and non-conforming

Answer 2

ya

Question 3

difficulties being trans:

Answer 3

1. Encouraged by parents to not tell anyone unless she had to
2. Fear of missing out on opportunities → tried to keep as quiet as possible
3. Approached conversations with shame → didn’t have confidence to disguise it

Question 4

violence

Answer 4

• Higher for trans women
• Highest for black trans women

Question 5

what is trans?

Answer 5

a gift :)

Question 6

Passing

Answer 6

Passing for cisgender → can’t tell that you’re trans

Question 7

percent who transition and regret it

Answer 7

less than 1%

Question 8

% of Gen Z knows someone who is trans or uses they/them pronouns

Answer 8

50

Question 9

what is gender performance?

Answer 9

a societal structure :)

Question 10

Puberty blockers

Answer 10

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

Question 11

how long have people been medically transitioning?

Answer 11

since the 1930s

Puberty blockers in Scandinavian countries since the 1980s

Question 12

what is often questioned for trans?

Answer 12

Abilities and intelligence PLUS Women are judged on the way they look rather than their intelligence

Question 13

Gender fluid

Answer 13

fluidity to gender

• Gender ebbs and flows: woman → man → non-binary
• Based off how their feeling in a single day

Question 14

age for surgery

Answer 14

18

Question 15

hormones for AMAB

Answer 15

estrogen

• Breast, wider hips
• Voice won’t lower, won’t get facial hair
• Go through normal puberty for “female”

Question 16

hormones for AFAB

Answer 16

T

• Body hair, chest, voice lowers
• Puberty blockers stop female puberty effects

Question 17

what is covered in BC

Answer 17

genital surgery

Question 18

what is not covered in BC

Answer 18

facial surgery, breast augmentation, hormones

Question 19

Discrimination in the LGBTQ+ community

Answer 19

• mostly online
• some misogonystic and hateful messages from LGBTQ+ community

Question 20

most persistent hate

Answer 20

• 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.

Question 21

What to do if someone comes out to you as trans

Answer 21

Be direct and ask:

• What can I do to support you?
• What are your pronouns?

Best way to avoid mistakes: just ask!

Question 22

what to NOT ask

Answer 22

DO NOT ASK questions about their bodies or what they are planning to do for transitioning.

Question 23

Dysphoria in childhood affects

Answer 23

• 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

Question 24

Gender identity

Answer 24

innate and in your brain

• Way this is performed → social construct

Question 25

Sex

Answer 25

assigned at birth

Question 26

“Transgender”

Answer 26

• Umbrella term → anyone who doesn’t traditionally perform gender
• Drag queens / drag kings

Question 27

Transexual

Answer 27

someone who has moved forward (or intends to) with medical transition

• Not everyone likes this word…

Question 28

Gender dysphoria:

Answer 28

media term for discomfort coming with gender identity and sex assigned

• Most with this choose to medically transition in order to relieve it

Question 29

no go: tranny

Answer 29

considered hate speech

Question 30

Transvestite

Answer 30

way to medicalize folks who cross-dress

• Used since the 70s
• Invented in 1910