Civil Rights And The Transgendered Community

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...of an individual's political, social and religious adherence is tentative at best. Acceptance of these characteristics is, in fact, subject to controversy, injustice, and even oppression. Gender, of course, is culturally constructed and categorized around meaningful social differences in male or female qualities. Transgender behavior, however, runs counter to that categorization and thus serves to disrupt societal order an expectation. As a consequence, society often reacts in a negative manner and the civil rights of the transgendered individual have the potential to be violated. While some progress has been made in this phenomena, the entirety of issues of discrimination against transgendered individuals is yet to be resolved.
To demonstrate the contentions presented above it is first necessary to explore the definition of "transgender". The term transgender is more and more often being used instead of the more familiar term, "transexualism". The condition that these terms describe is often referred to as gender dysphoria by the medical profession. It is a condition which is labeled a psychiatric disorder and a medical pathology (Levine, 1994). As would be expected, the...

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