Analysis Of Transgenderism In A Boy's Life

While watching Growing Up Trans on PBS, I had a lot of mixed emotions. The topic of individuals being transgender has a lot of controversy behind it. Before watching this documentary, I was fairly concerned about the idea of young children making such a huge decision about hormones and making the decision to go through puberty. I feared that these individuals could regret their decision once they got older. One of the individuals in the documentary, Isaac, mentions that he questions how he may be different if he had gone through typical puberty or didn’t make some of the decisions he had when he was so young. Though Isaac seemed to struggle with some questions and concerns about his choices, it appeared that all of the others who were featured in the documentary were prepared for the transition.

Some believe parents need to be more accepting of what gender their child chooses to be. In Linda DiProperzio’s article, she quoted an associate professor of Women 's Studies at the University of California named Jane Ward, who stated, “Raising a child under these strict gender guidelines is denying them an entire world of colors--they become tracked into the characteristics of their biological sex.” (Par. 7) Moreover, it is stated that limiting the views of a child can, and will, drastically change them and their future self. Not allowing children to be creative in what they choose limits their mindset. It is even worse that these narrow-minded ideas are thought up and enforced by the

In the film “Dr. Money and the Boy with No Penis,” the story about a Nature vs. Nurture case study, had theorized that a child nurtured to believe he was a girl with no issues of gender confusion because gender is learned. By doing so a child who is intersex or transgender can grow up to have learned their gender. The late 60s and early 70s offered little two know on how genetics or social learning that takes place that helps reinforce gender differentiation, although the beginning of the video the newest surgeries for sex change had become new it wasn't the right choice for David. Dr. money had wanted his theory of gender neutrality to prove true, Money’s based publication of this early sex change and nurturing of Baby David into a girl had

The film, Boys Don't Cry, Kimberly Pierce's brilliant work of 1999, is the true story of, Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, played by Hillary Swank, who created a male identity for herself. Brandon was born in 1972 and died at the hopelessly young age of 21. The actual story takes place within the last two weeks of Brandon's life, in 1993. The movie, a dramatized documentary, was released in 1999. Brandon is a transgendered individual; he was born a female, but feels that he would be happier living as a man. She leaves her brother and hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, where everybody knows her as Teena, to start a new life as Brandon. Brandon ends up in Falls City and his short life, as a man, begins. It is in essence, the epitome of

While the article, “S/He” by the author Jesse Green is bringing attention the transgender kids and their families. Green portrays the struggle and fear that families face in accepting the way they are. The discomfort that a child experiences

The article starts off defining the term transgender, and different circumstances where others attempted to ‘normalize’ the homosexual and transgender movements. The article states that transgender people “are deeply troubled individuals who need professional help, not societal approval or affirmation.” (Traditional Values Coalition 1). The article continues, showing instances where the transgender movement won “major political victor[ies]” (Traditional Values Coalition 2), such as California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 which protected transgender children at public schools. The coalition states that the media is helping the transgender movement by portraying transgender people as “misunderstood and persecuted” (Traditional

The case study written by Keith K. Schillo of SUNY College at Oneonta gives a brief argument of how the nurture theory could possibly be the cause of gender identity based on the struggles one boy had to endure during his life. The case study goes on to describe how a twin boy went from being a boy to a girl and then back to being a boy again back in 1965 to determine if gender identity was based solely on the nurture theory, or if nature was the cause. Due to the inability of both boys being able to urinate properly, it was decided to circumcise them in hopes that they could live normal healthy lives, but due to the use of unconventional methods, one boy was severely mutilated and forced to live without a penis. Based on the nurture theory of development, one psychologist from John Hopkins University believed if the child was completely castrated and reassigned gender, the parents could raise him as a girl and that she would grow up healthy and happy. While he was treated as a female, he still maintained the desire of being male and acted accordingly by refusing the many variables given to him such as clothing or activities that often reflect female instead of male characteristics. After many years of being trapped in a girl’s body, he underwent a double mastectomy to remove his breasts, and had a penis reconstructed so that he could once again live freely as a male. After all this, he eventually married and lived a happy life until one day he was consumed by

There has been much discussion about transgender adults in recent years but lately there has been a shift to the discussion of transgender children. Growing Up Coy (2016) is a documentary about a 6-year-old transgender. The documentary follows Coy and her family through a time where Coy’s parents fight for her rights as a transgender individual. This film discusses childhood gender-variant behavior, discrimination and prejudice, and proposes many questions about one’s opinions of being transgender, gender identity, etc.

A 24-year-olds bladder bursted after he was drinking a lot of alcohol and then jumped in the water. They said it was like dropping a balloon on the ground, because his stomach was fun and it exploded. He went to the doctor a few days later complaining about pains.he couldn't use the bathroom himself, so they had to stick a catheter in his bladder, blood and urine came out. He had a CT scan, and surgeons operated on his abdomens.

On its web site this week, Target announced, "[W]e welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity. ...Everyone deserves to feel like they belong."

First, people need to know what a transgender kid is. The google definition for transgender is denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex.() This is what is happening in the case of many children today. It is also important to explore both sides of the argument. The argument against transgender issues is that people are born a certain gender and only that gender, and it is a mental issue if that child thinks otherwise. In the documentary, a psychologist describes that people might be born with one gender but their spirit or their brain are the opposite genders. This is what people for transgender issues believe.

In 2006 Jazzy Jennings (then 6) was the youngest publicly documented child to be iden-tified as gender dysphoric; from then on in it wasn’t all easy goings for young Jazzy and her family as they faced schools denying the girl the right to dress how she wished. Alongside this they also denied her the right to use the toilets of the gender in which she identified herself as just because they thought it was the wrong choice and they were thinking of the other children.

Scholars have been critical of the medical establishment’s and state’s involvement in constructing and policing of transgender identity. These kinds of pressing issues have occupied the small existing literature. There is not much information and studying what is being done on transgender in traditional areas, family studies research, such as their dating behavior and formation of intimate relationships in adulthood. There is little research on the issues around being parents, their children’s experiences with having transgendered parents, as well as relationships in the family as a whole, and relationships in work and school.

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them” this quote written by Aldous Huxley accurately describes the impact parents have on their children. When parents aid their transgender children in transitioning into the opposite sex they are committing child abuse; changing sex is unsafe, indecent, and permanent. Over the course of a month, I have been a slave to the library. I have read over 30 articles on transgenderism; The basis of my opinion comes from well-sifted through research. The definition of child abuse is the mistreatment of a child by physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect, especially by those responsible for his or her welfare. Parents of transgender kids are neglecting what they need

First and foremost being a transgender child can be one or two things … I feel as if you can embrace the child and help make that child into the adult they are identifying to be or you can be like a small few of people to belittle the child and put your child at risk of depression, suicide, or overall low self-esteem. In Adriano And Goldberg's article they Express the topic " Your Special"  they explain how a family has adjusted their life to their daughter who was born a son. I totally can agree with the rest of the world I would have been a little upset in the beginning of this change. But soon after I would've just gradually accepted it because these things take time. Once you look at the situation as  how could my 5 year old son determine he is supposed to have female sex organs . They should be accepted for what they are mentally identifying as