3. Exploring the topic.
Causes
Religion Dangers: how it
Laws
affects
Trans-phobia Political views
Sex change Media, education
surgeries and family
representation
Representations Transgender
Scientific
Perspectives explanations
Intersex Cross-dressing
Society views Transvestites
sexism
Androgynies Poly gender
4. Exploring
Intersex people
• People who are born Trans-phobia
with both XX and XY • Refers to a fear of
cells
• Person born with
transsexuals or
reproductive or sexual transgender people
definitions of female or • Cause of trans-phobia is
male still unknown
• Scientists see it as a • Likely to be because of
disease the fragile nature of
gender identity
Exploring.
Laws
• Nearly all countries in
Europe now allows
people after a sex
change treatment to
change their passport
Cross dressing
and their driving • people who dress the
license. opposite way according to
• In Saudi-Arabia the gender
transsexuals get • matter of comfort and style
violated if they show • may cross-dress to disguise
their chosen identity. their physical sex
5. Gender Dysphoria
What is gender Dysphoria?
• They have a strong desire to live
Gender dysphoria according to their gender
is a condition in identity, rather than their
which a person biological sex.
feels that there is a • Some people undergo treatment
mismatch between so that their physical appearance
their biological sex is more consistent with their
gender identity.
and their gender
identity
For example, a person
may have the anatomy
of a man, but gender
identify as a woman.
6. Exploring.
NOTES DONE IN
MEETINGS.
DECIDING ON
DEBATES.
8. EXPLORING
• A man dressing up as a girl
or a girl dressing up as a
man
• Some do it for
entertainment (drag
queen, drag king
) and some do it to hide
their identity
• A person who identifies
themselves as not being the
sex they were born with
• Gender not associated to the • Person born with a
• People don’t feel
gender they feel they are. reproductive or sexual
comfortable in
anatomy that doesn’t fit the
describing their gender
typical definition of female
• Identify gender as
or male
being in the middle of
• People may be born with
male and female
some XX cells and some XY
cells.
9. POTENTIAL TOPICS
Categories devison.
Can androgynies be
considered to have Socialisation.
transgender?
Is the Transgender
intersex
Is cross dressing
umbrella completely Biological matters
also a way of correct?
transgender?
Transsexual woman
Cross dressing
Poly gender Hormone treatment
Transsexuals man
How does it
appear?
Scientific
Sex change
explanations
10. POTENTIAL TOPICS
1. How are transsexuals seen in society?
How does it feel to
Views within Transphobia
be confronted? Laws set up to help or
the religion,
to go against.
How does it feel
Countries
to confront society sexism False
views
? opinions
How are transsexuals
discrimination seen in society?
aggressive
Afraid of speech
offensive
Are people
acceptance
truthful
freedom confusion Attention seeker
with their
opinion?
independence Free choice
11. POTENTIAL TOPICS
Embarrassment Physiologists
18 being legal treatment
Feeling trapped
age.
Young people
under 16 are Parents/guardian
not mature consent.
enough for this What age should
decisions transgender
treatments be Sometimes
allowed? there is a
Doctors trend of being
approval a certain way.
Peer influence
Feeling left out Having loads
of brothers
and being
only girl or
the opposite.
12. FINAL CHOSEN TOPIC
View from
Views from people
transsexuals judging?
Different
Man being more
Muslim catholic Judaism countries
against.
How does it feel to
be confronted? Laws set up to
Views within the
help or to go Transsphobia
religion.
How do they decide against.
to show their identity.
Countries
How does it
sexism views
feel to
False opinions
confront
society ? How are transsexuals aggressive
seen in society?
discrimination
Afraid of
offensive speech
Are people
acceptanc
truthful with
e
their opinion? freedom confusion Attention
seeker
independence Free
choice
14. HOW THEY FEEL BETWEEN BOTH
GENDERS.
AN ANDROGYNE
MODEL CALLED
ANDREJ PEJIC
15. What are Androgyne and Poly gender people?
http://www.scottishtrans.org/Page/Androgyne_People.aspx
• people find they do not feel comfortable thinking of themselves
as simply either male or female.
• they feel that their gender identity is more complicated to
describe.
• Some may identify their gender as right in the middle between
male and female, while others may feel mainly male but not
100% male or vice-versa
• they may entirely reject defining their gender in terms of male
and female in any way.
• They call themselves: androgyne, polygender, genderqueer or
third-gender
16. • within these communities that self-definition is
the most important criteria.
• it can be very difficult to work out how to express
a gender identity which is neither simply male nor
female
• Some people may therefore experience a long
period of uncertainty about how they relate to the
highly gender-stereotyped world around them.
• Some have no interest at all in physically changing
their body. Others may wish to partially physically
transition (for example taking hormones but not
having any surgery or, alternatively, having some
surgery without taking hormones).
17. • others will follow the same transition route as
transsexual people do but reject identifying
simply as the gender they transition to.
• Occasionally, the desire to transition might
fluctuate over time.
• Their minds change a lot a they can be
considered confuse.
18. Views within economy
• Transgender people are targets of discrimination in
many areas of their lives; this marginalization exposes
them to tremendous social and economic insecurity
• the National Center for Transgender Equality and the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force launched a six-
month data collection process:
-Double the rate of unemployment:
-Near universal harassment on the job
-Significant losses of jobs and careers
-High rates of poverty
-Significant housing instability
19. GRAPHS THEY HAVE PRODUCED.
IN HERE IT CAN BE SEEN THAT HERE IS A LOT OF DISCRIMINATION DUE TO
THEIR CHOICES.
THIS CAN ALSO SHOW DISCRIMINATION THAT THEY
ARE RECIEVING.
20. Some facts.
• In contrast to what people thing , having an
androgynous appearance does not necessarily
make a person Androgyne.
• Being an Androgyne has nothing to do with
sexuality but with identity.
• This means that they cannot be considered gay.
• Even LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual and
Transgender) people tend to assume that a third
gender does not exist.
22. The law of Transgender views with each
Transsexuals within
EUROPE countries.
continent.
SPAIN POLAND UK
March 2007, new law in In 1964 to change one's Have birth certificate and
Spain allows transsexual legal gender after their driving license changed.
people to change their genital reassignment Marriage also allowed.
name and legal gender in surgery had been
all documents conducted
This doesn’t matter if In 1983- Court said that Parliament passed
they have undergone the some cases, when the the Gender Recognition
surgery. preferred gender was Act 2004, which
leading, it is possible to effectively granted full
change the legal gender legal recognition for
even before genital transgender people.
reassignment surgery.
There needs to be gender Anna Grodzka the first They need only
dysphoria symptoms. MP to undergo the demonstrate that they
surgery have suffered gender
dysphoria, and have lived
in the 'acquired gender'
for two years
If there are health risks its and intend to continue
not allowed and age doing so until death.
boundaries
23. Germany ireland
One can either obtain a change of Before it was not possible for a
name alone transsexual person to alter their
proceed later with a change of legal birth certificate.
gender, if possible or desired, or
obtain both in a single legal
procedure.
a person with only a name change After a serious case that the
has the right to be called "Herr" or government did not approve the
"Frau" (Mr. or Mrs.) documents change, and it was
proved that Ireland was going
against the law of 2004 in Europe
they changed.
Job references, certifications and The Government has since dropped
similar from the time before the its appeal and may introduce
change of name may to be reissued legalisation recognising one's
with the new name biological sex following sex
reassignment surgery.
No minimum age so a name and legal gender change
on one's birth certificate is now
possible.
24. AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
The Constitution of South Africa forbids discrimination on
the basis of sex, gender and sexual orientation.
allows a transgender person who has undergone medical
or surgical gender reassignment to apply to
the Department of Home Affairs to have the sex
description altered on their birth record.
Once the birth record is changed they can be have a
new birth certificate and identity document, and are
considered "for all purposes" to be of the new sex.
Thus the transgender person is not required to have had
genital surgery in order to have the sex description
altered.
25. NORTH AMERICA
UNITED STATES CANADA
IN THE UNITED STATES CANADA DIFFERS FROM
IN DIFFERS FROM STATE. PROVINCE AND
TERRITORIES
THE GOVERNMENT IS GENDER
ALLOWED TO UNDERGO CLASSIFICATION VARIES
ANY JUDGEMENT THEY FROM ONE AUTHORITY
WANT TO HAVE UPON TO THE ANOTHER.
THE CASE.
26. Y N Type of Resource How did you use this resource (brief bullet points)
Wikipedia
X gained some research about laws
articles on line
X to learn more about polygender and Androgynies
X newspaper articles
to see who Andrek Pijab is
youtube videos
X NOT USED
X information from various textbooks
NOT USED
periodicals (library)
X NOT USED
books (library or bought)
X NOT USED
vimeo videos
X NOT USED
TED videos
X I looked into some videos of the difference between sex and identity.
slideshare presentations To see graphs
X
X blogs
NOT USED
social media such as twitter
X NOT USED
phone interview with expert
X NOT USED
in-person interview with public
X We interviewed about 4 people
in-person interview with expert
X NOT USED
other: ________________________
.
other: ________________________
28. Background on cross-dressing
• Cross dressing is when someone a male
dresses up to be a female or vice versa
• It has been used for purposes of disguise
• Some people automatically connect cross-
dressing behaviour to transgender identity
however the term cross dressing itself
does not imply any intentions.
29. History of cross-dressing
• Cross dressing has existed throughout history
• There are many examples in Greek, Norse and
Hindu mythology
• There is a rich history of cross-dressing found
in folklore, literature, theatre, and music
• Some women have cross-dressed to take up
male-dominated or male-exclusive
professions, such as military service.
30. Drag queens
Two transgendered people are
pictured to the left, one being Chris,
and one being Margaret. Chris was
male at birth, but has undergone
sex reassignment surgery to change
her physical form, while Margaret
identifies as a woman but has not
undergone any surgery
Transgender people who live their
lives as a member of the gender
they identify with are not cross-
dressing, unless they choose to
wear clothing associated with a
gender they do not identify with.
31. Different kinds of cross dressing
• Some people cross-dress as a matter of comfort or style.
• Some people cross-dress to shock others or challenge social norms.
• Both men and women may cross-dress to disguise their physical sex.
• Some performers cross-dress to play roles written for members of the
opposite sex.
• DRAG
• This is a special form of performance art based on the act of cross-
dressing.
• Drag queen: usually a male who performs as a exaggerated woman.
They usually wear showy dresses, high heeled shoes, heavy make up
and a wig
• Drag king: matching part of the drag queen but usually for much
different audiences. They are females who usually adopt a masculine
personality. They may imitate a male film or pop-music star
32. Religion and transgender
• Religions range from condemning any gender
variant behaviour, to honouring transgender
people as religious leaders
33. Christianity
• The New Testament is more unclear about gender-
variant identities than the Old Testament is
• Sex-change procedures do not change a person’s
gender in the eyes of the Church
• It is said that “it does not change the personality. If the
person was a male, he remains male. If she was female,
she remains female”
• Some Christian denominations accept transgender
people as members and clergy.
• The Church of England has kept a transsexual woman
as a priest.
34. Islam
• There are two types in Islam:
• The first is a person who innates these characteristics, they
did not put them on by themselves and therefore there is
no guilt, no blame and no shame. As long as the person has
not performed any act or any form of prostitution.
• The second type acts like a woman out of immoral
purposes and there they are a sinner and they are to
blame.
• Iran is a Muslim country however they have carried out
more sex change operations than Thailand.
• The government even provides up to half the cost for those
needing financial assistance and a sex change is recognised
on the birth certificate
35. Y N Type of Resource How did you use this resource (brief bullet points)
X Wikipedia To find out about cross dressing
X articles on line
to research how it might start.
X newspaper articles
NOT USED
X youtube videos
to some videos of cross dressers.
information from various textbooks
X NOT USED
periodicals (library)
X NOT USED
X books (library or bought)
NOT USED
X vimeo videos
NOT USED
TED videos NOT USED
X
X slideshare presentations
NOT USED
X blogs
to see organisations
social media such as twitter
X NOT USED
phone interview with expert
X NOT USED
in-person interview with public
X to gain interviews for this presentation
X in-person interview with expert
NOT USED
other: ________________________
other: ________________________
37. How it first appeared
• First came from the greek godess Ninmah and father god Enki.
• In Europe, the term 'intersexual' was first to be used before the
Second World War.
• the term 'hermaphrodite' was replaced by the term 'intersex' that
came from British specialist Cawadias in the 1940s.
• Since the rise of modern medical science in Western societies,
some intersex people had their genitalia surgery done to become
either female or male.
• Existence of physical sexual variation in human beings has
increased.
38. What are intersex people ?
• Incomplete or unusual development of the internal reproductive
organs
• External genitals that cannot be easily classified as male or female
• Inability of the body to respond normally to sex-related hormones
• People with both sexes
• Nowadays doctors try to be more understanding towards intersex
people and give them a choice of what gender they want to be.
http://www.apa.org
39. Symptoms
• The person has the chromosomes of a woman, the ovaries of a woman, but outside genitals that appear male. (vice versa)
• Ambiguous genitalia at birth
• Micropenis
• Clitoromegaly (an enlarged clitoris)
• Partial labial fusion
• Undescended testes (which may turn out to be ovaries) in boys
• Labial or inguinal (groin) masses -- which may turn out to be testes -- in girls
• Hypospadias [the opening of the penis is somewhere other than at the tip; in females, the urine canal opens into the vagina
• Unusual appearing genitalia at birth
• Delayed or absent puberty
• Unexpected changes at puberty
WWW.ISNA.ORG
40. Causes
• XX Intersex : female foetus having been exposed to excess male
hormones before birth.
• XY intersex : The person has the chromosomes of a man, but the
external genitals are incompletely formed, ambiguous, or clearly
female.
• True Gonadal Intersex . Here the person has both ovarian and
testicular tissues. In this case the person might have one ovary and
one testis.
• Complex or Undetermined Intersex Disorders of Sexual
Development : both cases have an extra sex chromosome, either
an X or a Y. Have XXX or XXY chromosomes.
Nytimes.com
41. Treatment
• Child should assign a gender as quickly as possible (based on the
external genitals rather than the chromosomal gender)
• Prompt surgeries are often recommended
• Ovaries or testicle tissues from the other gender would be removed
• Easier to reconstruct female genitalia than functioning male
genitalia
• If the "correct" choice is not clear, the child is often assigned to be a
girl. (easier)
Nytimes.com
42. Y N Type of Resource How did you use this resource (brief bullet points)
X Wikipedia To research about intersex
X articles on line
X to find out about the symptoms
newspaper articles
X NOT USED
youtube videos
X to hear the doctors views.
information from various textbooks
X NOT USED
periodicals (library)
X NOT USED
books (library or bought)
X NOT USED
vimeo videos NOT USED
X
X TED videos to hear about doctors.
slideshare presentations
X NOT USED
blogs
X Transgender organisations
social media such as twitter
X NOT USED
phone interview with expert
X NOT USED
in-person interview with public
X yes , to gain interviews about personal opinion
in-person interview with expert
X NOT USED
other: ________________________
other: ________________________
44. Transsexuals
Transsexualism describes the condition in which an
individual identifies with a gender inconsistent or not
culturally associated with their assigned sex, i.e. in which a
person's assigned sex at birth conflicts with their
psychological gender.
Gender not associated to the gender they feel they are.
Transsexualism describes the condition in which an
individual identifies with a gender inconsistent or not
culturally associated with their assigned sex, i.e. in which a
person's assigned sex at birth conflicts with their
psychological gender.
45. Transsexual Women
• A male-to-female (MTF) transsexual woman
(trans woman) is someone who was labelled
male at birth but has a female gender identity,
and therefore changes to live completely and
permanently as a woman.
• Transsexual women can be distinguished from
other transgender people by the extremely
strong need which transsexual women have to
live completely and permanently as women in
contrast to their original birth label of male.
46. Transsexual Men
• A female-to-male (FTM) transsexual man (trans man) is
someone who was labelled female at birth but has a
male gender identity, and therefore transitions to live
completely and permanently as a man.
• Transsexual men seek to bring their physical bodies and
gender expressions into better accordance with their
strong gender identities so that their identities as men
finally become clearly visible to their friends, families
and colleagues. However, some may be restricted by
their personal or social circumstances in their ability to
achieve this. Transsexual men often experience
significant emotional distress, usually referred to as
gender dysphoria, if unable to live fully as men
http://scottishtrans.org/Page/Transsexual_Wo
men.aspx
47. Trans-phobia
• Definition: Tranphobia is an irrational fear of, and/or
hostility towards, people who are transgender or who
otherwise transgress traditional gender norms. Because
lesbians and gay men often transgress gender norms, it is
often associated with homophobia.
• The cause of transphobia is still a subject of research and
debate, but it likely reflects the fragile nature of gender
identity
• People who are quietly struggling with their own gender
identity, and people for whom gender identity is especially
important, might be frightened--even angry--when
confronted with the fragility of gender.
48. Trans-phobia
• Transphobia refers to the fear, hatred of and
prejudice against people who are transsexual
or transgender
• If you live with a disability, transphobia results
in very particular kinds of barriers to sexual
expression, which includes the way you
experience and express your gender identity.
49.
50. Social Justice Terms
Working Terms and Definitions
• Androgyne: A person with physical traits of male
and female.
• Biphobia: Fear or hatred of people who are
bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, or
nonmonosexual. Biphobia is closely linked with
transphobia and homophobia.
• Sexism: The cultural, institutional, and individual
set of beliefs and practices that privilege men,
subordinate women, and denigrate values and
practices associated with women.
51. Y N Type of Resource How did you use this resource (brief bullet points)
X Wikipedia To find out about transsexuals
X articles on line
to get peoples opinions
newspaper articles
X NOT USED
X youtube videos
to watch previous interviews
information from various textbooks
X NOT USED
periodicals (library)
X NOT USED
books (library or bought)
X NOT USED
vimeo videos
X NOT USED
X TED videos
To see a transsexuals’s point of view.
slideshare presentations
X NOT USED
blogs
X to see organisations
social media such as twitter
X NOT USED
X phone interview with expert
NOT USED
in-person interview with public
X to gain interviews for this presentation
in-person interview with expert
NOT USED
other: ________________________
other: ________________________
53. What is the purpose of the
documentary?
• Inform people more about transgender
• Stop discrimination
• Show transsexual’s point of view
• Try get people to be more open minded about
this topic
• Hear the societies opinion on this topic
54. What would people learn about this topic
from your documentary?
• The reasons of why a person may be a
transsexual
• Transsexuals are humans just like us
• The debates within the transgender umbrella
• The differences between transsexuals, intersex,
cross-dressing and polygender people
55. What style of documentary is it?
(According to bill Nichols theory)
Informative :
• Informing the audience about transgender
• Aim is for the people who watch the
documentary to get a wider knowledge about
this topic
• We are going to be showing both views for
and against (not biased)
56. Audience
Secondary Audience
Why?
Age: start learning
about the topic.
12-17 Target audience.
Age: 18-25
Gender: Male and Female Interest:
Gender: Might be
Religion: Christians, Muslims, Judaism
Male and going
Region: London
Female through this
Class: working, middle and high class.
Interests: Debating, sciences, identity, and needing
watching documentaries, updating help.
Religion: Help with
knowledge.
catholic school work.
Muslims Sciences.
Judaism Class:
Region: Working
London class
57. Niche or Mass audience?
Mass Audience
Why?
• We need societies opinions
• Make people aware of it.
• Make it a topic that people learn about.
• It can have to do with a big number of society.
58. Why is it important for people to learn
about this?
• The target audience age because its roughly
the age where your gender identity is formed.
• The secondary audience because people
might be going through a time of confusion
and that might help.
• So that people can understand other views,
and become more opened minded.
• So that Transgender is not seen as something
of another world.
59. What style of Documentary is it?
According to Bill Nichols theory our documentary
would be...
Observatory:
People are going to observe different types of
opinions expressed by the public. The presenter
will not persuade, will just observe.
Informative:
The content of the documentary are going to be
very informative, and will teach people things.
Also will have a debate which will inform people
of sides of the view.
60. Structure
EPISODE 1 EPISODE 2 EPISODE 3
Explain what is Historical what age should it
transgender, the evidence, the be legal to have
different umbrella theory the surgery. Views
categories within and if its within different
it. Societies views completely countries, and
on this topic. correct. If it’s a about the sex
sexual matter or a change surgery.
case of identity.
61. What channel would it be put on and why?
• We would choose channel 4 because
their documentaries are usually aimed
at an audience who are aged 16+
• Also their documentaries are mostly
participatory and informative and
that’s what our one is
62. What time would it be on and why?
• The time we would be showing it at would be
9 o’clock as there would be explicit content
and a subject that may be too much for
people aged under 16
• Also children who come back from school
would normally watch from 4-7 so they would
be asleep for when this documentary would
be showing.
