Victoria Ramirez Case Study

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This story shared by a girl named Victoria Ramirez who lives in California demonstrates the lack of support and brutal discrimination individuals who transition or who have transitioned face daily because they break the socially norm of the meaning of gender and gender identity. Victoria Ramirez had worked for Barnes and Noble in California for six years. Her problems started when, as Tyson, she began taking hormones to become a woman. Although she still appeared to be manly, she began painting her nails and growing out her hair. The decisions to express feminine attributes was a big part of her transition as this was the beginning of Victoria expressing how she truly felt and believed she should be. However, these expressions, stated by her