In “The Medical Construction of Gender” by Suzanne Kessler, Kessler argues that gender is socially constructed. She conducts an ethnography on intersex babies, the doctors and parents involved, and how society puts constraints on genders. Kessler uses different anthropological methods to prove her argument. One method Kessler uses is a humanistic approach when she puts quotations around “true hermaphrodite” and “natural/normal genitalia” (p.52). This shows that while staying objective, Kessler is also trying to humanize these intersex babies by suggesting that there is no such thing as normal genitalia.
Those two categories have a particular anatomy. If someone doesn’t fit one or the other, then surgeons normalize them. This idea is too simplistic. Sex is more complicated than that. Dreger argues that nature doesn’t draw
First Draft Why is it that more masculine homosexual women get the label of wanting to be the opposite sex? Majority of women that do not fit the category of the type of “lesbian” guys like are often bullied, called a man, accused of wanting to be a man or even are attacked by males. The “lesbian” that guys like are the more feminine women that guys see as pleasure or wanting to be a part of the group. In most cases i’ve personally experienced guys only want something to do with lesbians if they can join in and be a part of their relationship sexually. Most of these things happen because from how I see it, due to being threatened that they believe that lesbians are here to take their place.
The three tiers of scrutiny in equal protection cases have its pros and cons. First, the tiers of scrutiny aid the Courts in the decision making process that are used to as guidelines for consistency in “complex task of adjudication or lawmaking” or to “facilitate adjudication by providing off-the-rack decision rules” . (Stearns; Huq 577). Additionally, due to the establishments of stable and predictable definitions, the three tiered of scrutiny provide financial advantages by decreasing decision costs as well as expedite legal proceedings (Huq 577). On the other hand, a disadvantage of applying the tier of scrutiny is the method of application, the Courts approaches are inconsistent, thereby the results are also inconsistent (Stearns).
For Goodness Sex, by Al Vernacchio, is a welcome relief from the two previous books; Girls & Sex and Man Interrupted, as the focus is about sexuality as a whole; gender, sexual orientation, etc., rather than on the culture of females and males. In a chapter titled “Gender Myths,” Vernacchio (2014) asks the question, “male and female, is that all there is” (Vernacchio, A., p. 112, 2014)? In teaching his class on Sexuality and Society, Vernacchio asks these questions and questions similar, demonstrating that he takes into consideration that there are feelings at stake and keeps in mind the human aspect of sex and sexuality as he is intentionally behind challenging students to foresee and develop their sense of values about sex, instead of constantly being “in the moment.”
Adoption is typically an option that is thought about when the process of conceiving a biological child is out of the question. For some couples it may be infertility, potential hereditary health problems, or that carrying a child would be dangerous to the mother and unborn child. Those are just some issues that would cause a heterosexual couple to contemplate the idea of adopting a child, but what about couples of the same-sex? Same-sex couples do not have the means to reproduce together so many opt for adoption, which sounds easy, but typically is not. Adoption is a long and hard drawn out process for any couple, but for couples that are of the same-sex, they typically get the shorter end of the stick.
Secondly, being a teenager sex education will guide us into gender identity which we treat other people equally by what gender they are such as gay, lesbian, bi sexual or etc. Lastly, this issue will support people being nonjudgmental and
The information about men and their sexual organs is well-documented and the portrayal does not seem to have changed in decades. Yet, the information about women is lacking. Even when I received sexual education training in elementary and high school, there was no discussion about women’s sex organs. There were demonstrations of putting condoms on a penis (via a banana) and plenty of information about male sex organs as whole. Yet, there clitoris was a blip on the radar, only a nub in an area surrounded by reproductive organs, while the ‘G Spot’ did not even exist on the chart.
To answer the first question, I would say that it is very important to try and develop a very open mind and considering that an individual is a counselor religion should really not even get in the way. If you want to be a good counselor I feel your religion should never be too important until maybe a client wants do discuss such topics. Given the scope of issues that may be identified by transgender individuals when seeking therapy, it is important for mental health professionals to educate themselves about this population in order to provide the most clinically appropriate, sensitive and supportive care possible (Maguen, Shiperd, & Harris, 2005). That may be the only thing I would suggest to counselors and specifically Christian counselors, when it comes to working with transgendered clients.
Understanding gender and sexuality as socially constructed categories is important because it helps people understand a certain group. Gender and sexuality is expressed in many categories and people must be careful not to mix people in the wrong category. Simply because one expresses their sexuality different from another person does not mean they should be bashed or treated differently. Sometimes it does not matter what you identify as, who you identify with, people will always judge you, so its best people just do what they want. Putting gender in a category helps others not stereotype them as something they are not.
Freud suggested that the superego acts to perfect and civilize our behaviour and it suppress all unacceptable urges of the id while struggles to make the ego act upon idealistic standards, rather that upon realistic principles. The superego is present in the conscious, preconscious and unconscious. As far as toilet training is concerned, Freud had developed a theory of 'Psychosexual Development '. He developed and advanced this theory focussing on the effects of the sexual pleasure drive on a person’s emerging personality.
Sexuality includes how society views each gender’s relation to sex. Double
PSYCHOSEXUAL THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT This is an assignment given in Adolescence and Learning to explore Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual theory of development. This theory describes how the personality is developed over the course of childhood through various fixations at each stage. The five stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. Each of the psychosexual stages is associated with a particular conflict that must be resolved before the individual can successfully advance to the next stage (McLeod, 2008). According to Freud, a person who successfully completes these stages forms a successful and healthy personality whereas if certain conflicts are not resolved at the appropriate stage fixations occurs which result in failure
Everyone goes through different events that can change how they 're viewed and how they feel in terms of maturity. For me, one event that stands out to me as a turning point is when I can out as pansexual to my family and friends. Pansexuality is the attraction to people of any gender/sex. I "came out of the closet" a few different times so far. Once to my mother, once to my father, and once to the rest of my family and friends on Facebook - publically.
I believe that people are allowed to be whatever they want to be within reason, so in that way I believe that there could be more than just two genders. I also believe that there is a difference between gender and sex, because sex is biological, and gender could be viewed as more of a cultural standard that has been created around people’s physical sex. Though I also believe that people should be allowed to believe what they want, so people should be able to think that gender means male and females, and other people can believe that it means more than that, and that both definitions should be respected even if they aren’t both believed by all. I have grown up with many friends that have identified as different genders than their biological sex, or have fallen in love with people that are outside of the male and female categories, and I respect their lives and decisions. So the way I use the word gender isn’t the way most people think of it due to my experiences and the way I was raised, to be open to new
