The Evolving Roles of Gender Identity and Expression in Society

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[Name] April 15th, 2021 RHE 309 Headnote In the early lives of the 1960s there were known gender roles, as a woman you knew you were to stay home, look after the kids and cater to the husband and as a man you were to go out and provide for your family. However, since then newer generations are evolving and changing those stereotypical ways of living. Gender identity/gender equality means more than sex/biological differences, thus combining the stereotypes attached to the traditional approach to the roles of a woman and men in society, the Routledge article, “From ‘Gender equality and Woman’s Empowerment’ to Global Justice: Reclaiming a transformative Agenda for Gender and Development,” supports and highlights those facts. However, in doing this research I questioned if the older generations have a hard time with this changed and how lgbtq+/other genders were feeling about this change because many have been kept quiet since then and now it’s a whole new world. The research “Measuring Transgender Individuals’ Comfort With Gender Identity and Appearance: Development and Validation of the Transgender Congruence Scale,” helped to understand that both the notion of gender identity and the forms of gender expression used in everyday life are important elements for understanding the human rights problem faced by transgender persons. There still is a lot more developing in terms human rights laws being looked at and being revised, options being added for gender fluent people. New York Times article, “Passports Could Include a New Option for Gender Identity’, and The Washington Post article, “Supreme Court to decide if Anti-Discrimination Employment Laws protect on Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”, both give evidence to that. My paper will analyze the change that the newer generation is having on society today and how discrimination against gender fluent people is still here today. Kozee, Holly B, Tracy L Tylka, and L. Andrew Bauerband. “Measuring Transgender Individuals’ Comfort With Gender Identity and Appearance: Development and Validation of the Transgender Congruence Scale.” Psychology of women quarterly 36.2 (2012): 179–196. Web. In this article a studies will be done to try to try to understand how transgender people feel congruence between external presentation and internal self. The article describes how transfeminists believe that although a transgender might experience some oppression, it’s not enough to be a woman or a man. So they do this study is being done to see if transgender individual really are happy with their appearance and gender identity within themselves and if they accept it. For these studies they used an instrument called the Transgender Congruence Scale (TCS), which consists of , in study 1 they took the TCS and referenced it to a book that provides summaries of the transgender experience in Westernized regions. In study 2 the first TCS is being compared to a different TCS to see if the results from the first one is true, except the second TCS is from individuals who are still processing their gender identity. O’Halloran, Kerry. Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and International Human Rights Law : Common Law Perspectives / Kerry O’Halloran. New York ;: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. Print. In this book, O’Halloran, discusses how some of the most heinous crime can be committed against a person because of their own sexual orientation or gender identity and the outcome of justice being served is slim because the LGBTQ+ community are still being discriminated against and they are not taken seriously. O’Halloran, goes into explain different reasons why someone with a different sexual orientation is automatically discriminated against, whether it be religious views or political views. Those topics include; Religious and moral discourses; ‘Scientific” discourses; Political and ideology discourses; Decriminalization and continues criminalization etc. Furthermore, the book goes into speaking in how the law is written and meant for all of us human beings to live how we chose and if these basic human rights are not respected than that must mean that all other rights are not respected Safronova, Valeriya. “Passports Could Include a New Option for Gender Identity.” The New York times 2021: D3–. Print. In this editorial, activists are pushing for passports to add an...