Student Name: Erfan Tanhaei

Student Number: 2015300368 Course: GED109 _ AM13 _4Q

Reflect on the things that you have learned from the topics that we have had discussed in Module 2.
Please submit only a one-page paper.

Reflection Paper 2

"Transamerica" persuasive would be an understatement, as well as somewhat

misleading. Her character, Bree (short for Sabrina), is a pre-operative transsexual who

lives in a modest bungalow in Los Angeles and in a condition, she refers to as "stealth."

In other words, though still technically male, Bree passes for a woman, though there is

nothing very stealthy about her elaborate, almost theatrical displays of femininity. In her

tasteful pink outfits and meticulously applied makeup, she presents an image of

womanliness that harks back to an earlier era. It seems to be more common to have cis

men playing trans women which does seem to stem from the outdated idea that trans

women can’t be beautiful and/or pass as “real” women Traditionally, there are three

main psychological explanations of how we navigate the path to gender identity. These

are psychodynamic theory, social learning theory, and cognitive-developmental theory.

All focus on early childhood, that is, up until about seven years of age.

Overall, the psychology of gender is revealed in the grey areas, that is, the relationship

between identity and expression, and how we make sense of the gaps between

(biological) sex, self and the social. For many the mismatch gaps might be narrow or

even imperceptible, others might find ways of behaving and thinking to bridge the

divide, and yet for others, the divide can seem insurmountable.