1. Assignment #10- Group
coursework (Draft 1)
By:
Luara Pires
Kauana Labaldi
Maria Younes
Debbie Marques

2. Assignment 8: Review
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1HmfHUBJMM

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.

7. Exploring within biology

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

13. Research
Luara’s Research
• ANDROGYNIES AND POLYGENDER
• LAWS AND RELIGIOUS VIEWS.

14. What are Androgyne and Poly gender people?
http://www.scottishtrans.org/Page/Androgyne_People.aspx
Androgyny: Poly Gender:
People that look both 1. People do not feel
genders. comfortable thinking of
Such as Model Andrej Pijab themselves as either male
or female.
2. They believe their gender
identity is in the middle of
both.
3. They call themselves:
androgyne, polygender, gen
derqueer or third-gender
4. They believe there is a third
gender.

15. Problems they may confront.
Some people may therefore
within these communities experience a long period of
that self-definition is the uncertainty
most important criteria.
Others physically transition:
it can be very difficult to • taking hormones but not
work out how to express a having any surgery
gender identity which is • alternatively, having some
neither simply male nor surgery without taking
female hormones.
Some have no interest at all in physically
changing their body.

16. Views within economy
the National Centre for Transgender
Transgender people are targets of Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian
discrimination Task Force found out that:
1. Double the rate of unemployment
in many areas of their lives; this 2. Significant housing instability
marginalization exposes them to
tremendous social and economic
insecurity 3. High rates of poverty
4. Significant losses of jobs and careers
5. Near universal harassment on the job

17. GRAPHS TO SHOW HOW IT IS FOR ANDROGYNIES AND
POLY GENDER PEOPLE AT WORK.
In this graph we can see:
• their chances of getting a
job is really low.
• Being promoted is also ready
hard.
• Some even got fired.
In this graph we can observe that:
• They are discriminated.
• They are forced to choose
between a gender so that they
can get the job.
• They are sometimes not allowed
to get contact with the costumers.

18. Some facts.
Having an androgynous appearance does not
necessarily make a person poly gender.
Being an Androgyne has nothing to do with
sexuality but with identity.
Even LGBT community people tend to assume
that a third gender does not exist.

19. EUROPE
Transgender views with
countries.
SPAIN POLAND UK
March 2007, new law in In 1964 to change one's Have birth certificate
Spain allows transsexual legal gender after their and driving license
people to change their genital reassignment changed.
name and legal gender surgery had been Marriage also allowed.
in 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 Anna Grodzka the first They need only
gender dysphoria MP to undergo the demonstrate that they
symptoms. surgery have suffered gender
dysphoria, and have
lived in the 'acquired
gender' for two years
If there are health risks and intend to continue
its not allowed and age doing so until death.
boundaries

20. Germany Ireland
One can either obtain a change Before it was not possible for a
of name alone transsexual person to alter their
proceed later with a change of birth certificate.
legal gender, if possible or
desired, or obtain both in a
single legal procedure.
a person with only a name After a serious case that the
change has the right to be called government did not approve the
"Herr" or "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
similar from the time before the dropped its appeal and may
change of name may to be introduce legalisation
reissued with the new name recognising one's biological sex
following sex reassignment
surgery.
No minimum age so a name and legal gender
change on one's birth certificate
is now possible.

21. 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.

22. NORTH AMERICA
UNITED STATES CANADA
IN THE UNITED STATES CANADA DIFFERS
IN DIFFERS FROM FROM PROVINCE AND
STATE. TERRITORIES
THE GOVERNMENT IS GENDER
ALLOWED TO CLASSIFICATION
UNDERGO ANY VARIES FROM ONE
JUDGEMENT THEY AUTHORITY TO THE
WANT TO HAVE UPON ANOTHER.
THE CASE.

23. 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: ________________________

24. Research
Maria’s Research
• CROSS DRESSING
• RELIGIOUS VIEWS.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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

29. Religion and transgender
• Religions range from condemning any gender
variant behaviour, to honouring transgender
people as religious leaders

30. 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.

31. 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

32. 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: ________________________

33. Research
Debbie’s Research
• INTERSEX PEOPLE

34. 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.

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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: ________________________

40. Research
Kauana’s Research
• TRANSEXUALS
• TRANSPHOBIA

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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

44. 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.

45. 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.

47. 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.

48. 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: ________________________

49. Interviews
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6K-3cD8_Do

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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)

53. 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: and needing
Debating, sciences, identity, watching help.
Religion: Help with
documentaries, updating knowledge.
catholic school work.
Muslims Sciences.
Judaism Class:
Region: Working
London class

54. 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.

55. 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.

56. 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.

57. 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.

58. 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

59. 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.