GEC 12

GENDER AND SOCIETY

 PRAYER

Lord Almighty,
the source of light and love
we honor you, we praise you,
we adore you.

We ask your guidance and blessings in our daily

undertakings. Send your Holy Spirit to give us gift of
wisdom, intelligence and understanding .
May this learning activity , be an opportunity of
sharing
thoughts and ideas and become fruitful to
everyone. Lord we also ask your guidance to
give us moral courage to do and fight what is
right and just and to obey your teachings.
Bless us and our family with good health,
protect us from danger and from
calamities.

This we ask through Christ our Lord .

Amen.
LGBT PSYCHOLOGY
 VIEWS ON LGBT IN HISTORY

Sexual and emotional attraction

towards the same sex has been
recording throughout history of
mankind.
China 600 BCE
They used the terms “pleasures of the bitten
peach” and “broke back”.
Japan
‘shudo’ or ‘nanshoku’
Thailand
”Kathoey” to lady boys
Philippines
‘babaylan’ and the
‘catalonan’ (women priests)
- some are males who lived
their lives as women.
 Society’s attitude
towards
homosexuality and
other gender variants
change through
history.
 Ancient Greek
All males are expected to take a
younger male lover in practice called pederasty.

 Indigenous native Americans

accepted and celebrated known as
‘two-spirited’ person in a dance to the‘Berdache’
Later cultures, see it as a “sin, following the Abrahamic
religion, which branded it as a sodomy, a crime against
nature.
As these cultures colonized other countries, it enforced its
belief systems of viewing same sex attractions as a sin.
through violence such as killing homosexuals:
a) burning
b) stoning
c) being fed to the dogs
 TH
19 CENTURY
Homosexuality classified as an illness
a basis for them to:
- legally persecute homosexuals,
- imprison, and
- commit them to a mental
institution
Example:
Alan Turing (father of modern computing)
- prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts.
- was sentenced with chemical castration
treatment,
- died through cyanide poisoning
 Through extensive research, 1973

 The APA removed homosexuality as a psychiatric

disorder /sickness
 This decision was after many years of struggle from the
gay and lesbian liberation movement.
 APA finally declared that being attracted to people of
the same sex is a natural variation of the human
experience
 With the acceptance to LGBT, new terms and labels
have been used to cater to everyone.
 The ABC’S of the LGBTQIA+

Lesbian - Women who are emotionally and sexually attracted to women

Gay - men who are emotionally and sexually attracted to men.

Bisexual - who are emotionally and sexually attracted to men & women
Transgender - when your gender identity (how you feel) is different
from your physical sex (male/female)

Queer - Used by people who celebrate all gender identities

Intersex - who were born with sex genitals and chromosome

patterns that do not fit typical male or female body
Asexual/Ally - who do not feel sexual attraction to anyone, but it
does not mean that they do not engage in
romantic or sexual relationships
Allies - straight people who are fighting for LGBT right

Plus+ - Refers to all sexualities that do not fit in the LGBTQI

spectrum
 MOREMS OTHER TERMS

Androgynous - People whose gender expression (their physical

appearance) may or may not be distinctly male
or female.
Gender - Your internal sense of being masculine or
feminine or neither
Gender identity - How you feel- man, woman or neither
Gender expression - How you express your sense of being
male or female or neither, maybe
through hairstyle, clothes, etc.
Sexual Orientation - Your emotional and sexual attraction to a
person.
Sex assigned at birth - Your given sex when were born based on
your sex organ.

Cisgender - When your gender identity matches with

the sex when were born based on your
sex organ.
Non-binary - People who do not feel like a boy or a
girl; they may feel like they are both or
neither, so sometimes they use the
pronouns they, them and theirs
 Many Identities Under this Term

FTM-female to male - A person whose biological sex is female and has

transitioned to living his life as a male

MTF-male to female

Crossdressing - Some people want to dress as the opposite gender

from time to time, unlike the transsexual, they are
identifying with their biological sex
 PAP Philippine Psychological  Lesbian, gay and bisexual
Association of the Philippines orientations are normal variants
2011 of human sexuality

 PAP Code of Ethics (2010)  calls upon Filipino Psychologists

to ”respect the diversity among
persons and peoples”.
Drag kings and queens - These are people who dress as the
opposite gender for entertainment
which they do out of passion or for work
Gender queer - These are the people who feel like their
gender does not fit the gender binary
view that is limited to the male or
female category because they feel
that these are too restrictive.
 Descriptions of the Most Important
Problems Youth Currently Face

Most Important Problems Most Important Problems

Identified by LGBT Youth
Non- accepting families
School/Bullying Problem
Fear of being out or open
Identified by Non-LGBT
Youth
Class/Exams/Grades
College/ Career
Financial pressures related to
college
 FAMILY AFFAIRS
 Family affairs - LGBT guardians failed to protect them or may
abuse them
 Religion/Spirituality - Same-sex marriage are not allowed
- Immorality of same-sex relationship
 Government - denied the transgender people to
change their gender in the government
documents.
 School Experiences by LGBTQ+

 Can cause deep and lasting

• Bullying harm
 Curtail student’s rights to
education
• Discrimination

• Lack of access to LGBT-related

information

• Physical or sexual assault

 LGBT IN EMPLOYMENT

 Discriminatory practices  Process of hiring

 SOGIESC discrimination  Assigning of wages
 Granting benefits and
promotions
 Retention of employees
 Assigning of shifts/forfeit the
legal benefits that those who
can marry enjoy
 OTHER DISCRIMINATION

 Health concern Issue of HIV

Deprivation of their right to health
and information
example- fail to include deaf
LGBT people(no Fil language
interpreters who can offer
counseling services at HIV testing
centers)
 Understanding Transgenderism

Who is transgender?
The APA (American Psychiatric Association) defines
transgender as
an”umbrella “ term for persons whose gender
identity, gender expression, or behavior
does not conform to that typically
associated with the sex they were assigned
at birth.
 This means that a transgender does not feel
comfortable in their biological sex.
 This feeling or gender identity is not something that
changes through time, but is a feeling that they have
since childhood.
 This create a problem to heteronormative society
wherein everyone is expected and forced to fit in the
boxes of male masculinity and female femininity.
 There are transgender choose to have a
“hormonal replacement therapy or sex
reassignment surgery”

 Medical advancements have helped

transgender people live a full life

 It can be a long, difficult and expensive process.

 TRANSITIONING PROCESS

Psychologist
- can guide when a person wants to go through
hormonal replacement therapy most especially
permanent changes like sex reassignment surgery.
- implications of their self-medication

Some cannot or do not want to go through these

because of personal, economic or cultural reasons.
Transitioning to another gender is a very challenging process
because of:

1. Social stigma
2. Discrimination
3. Medical cost
4. Accessibility of medical treatment and support
5. oppressive laws
6. threat of violence from prejudiced people
References:

 Peralta, et.al. (2019) A Course Module for Gender and Society: A

Human and Ecological Approach. Rex Book Store, Inc. ,Manila
 www.hrw.org
 Discrimination Against LGBT Students in the Philippines/HRW
 https://www.undp.org>docs PDF
 Being LGBT in Asia: The Philippines Country Report