John Leonardo I.

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The Multiple Definition of Transgender

Wherever we go, we meet or come across different individuals who proudly show their
true color and who they are. Not only ‘queering’ gender such as gays or lesbians; but those who
contravene gender boundaries that bends gender itself. According to Ortiz (2008), “Kessler and
McKenna (2000) have contended for three particular methods for operationalizing the prefix 'trans'
so frequently utilized in this grant. Signifying 'change', 'over', and 'past', 'trans' is used to allude to,
in the main feeling of the term, 'transsexual' (when the experience of sex reassignment medical
procedure underpins a man's desire or need to affirm their favored sexual orientation character), in
the second, moving from a sex class to another (yet at the same time inside a two sex structure),
and in the last, it implies opening up to an assortment of sex choices, as in when a man thinks
about existence and experience outside the limits of 'male' and 'female' (Kessler and McKenna
clarify it as when sex 'stops to exist')." In the easiest frame, a transgender as indicated by the creator
implies a man who wants to progress from male to female or the a different way.
And as eloquently stated by Wu (2016), Those people who recognize as transgender (the
"T" in many queer community acronyms) are the individuals who relate to a sexual orientation
that contrasts from their appointed sex. She additionally made reference to that having a
transgender character is associated and has something to do with poor psychological well-being
which for the most part analyze "sexual orientation personality issue" and "sex dysphoria." But
she reinstated the claim when the World Health Organization is actively working towards
declassifying transgender identity as a mental disorder, a change partially prompted by a recent
study uncoupling the mental and physical health problems experienced by transgender people from
their gender identity.
As indicated by Devaney (n.d.), The term transgender is used to portray an expansive scope of
individuals who encounter and additionally express their sex fairly uniquely in contrast to what a
great many people anticipate." Bilodeau (2005) gives an example of terms that depict transgender
personalities: transsexuals (preoperative, postoperative), transvestites, drag rulers, drag rulers,
male to female (MTF), female to male (FTM), cross dressers, and gender benders. Transgender is
an umbrella term that envelops all these sex variation personalities.
There are more and many terms and definitions describing what “transgender” is; and most
of those researches, literature reviews, theses, etc., generally describes a transgender person as a
person whose gender identity or expression does not match the sex they were assigned at birth.
For example, a transgender person may identify as a woman despite having been born with male
genitalia. Those data also mentions that it is classified as a mental health problem emphasized on
“general identity disorder”. But nevertheless, each and every one should accept them for who they
are and who they desire to be because they have free will to do what they wish and those choices
should not hinder the respect and acceptance from society.
References:
Bradford, A. (2018). What Does 'Transgender' Mean? Retrieved October 25, 2018, from

https://www.livescience.com/54949-transgender-definition.html

Devaney, K. (n.d.). Transgender Research Literature Review. Retrieved October 25, 2018, from

https://msu.edu/~devaneyb/portfolio/trans lit review.pdf

Ortiz, S. (2008). Transgender and Transsexual Studies: Sociology's Influence and Future Steps.

Retrieved October 25, 2018, from https:// www. researchgate. net/publication/229968698

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