In the last decade transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals have become increasingly visible in our families, culture, and public discourse. This course explores the concept of gender identity for people who are curious about the nature of gender, the process of gender affirmation, or changing social dynamics. Participants will learn the unique challenges faced by the TGNC population as well as develop the skills to build inclusive spaces in all spheres of their life. This course was developed under the Joycelyn Elders Chair in Sexual Health Education at the University of Minnesota.
Intersectionality - CeCe McDonald
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What does it mean to identify as Transgender or Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC)?
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Society and Public Policy in the United States
Anti-transgender policy discussions from "Bathroom Bills" to open participation in the military have been on the forefront of national conversation for the last decade. This module will delve into the disparities that transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals face in society at large from healthcare to incarceration and discrimination.
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Rebecca Graetz, EdDInstructor
University of Minnesota - Program in Human Sexuality
Annette McNamara
I think that when, again,
thinking about intersectionality,
intersectional lives, that we as humans
tend to separate the components of an individual.
To, kind of, make ourselves feel easiest about our own ignorances, right?
We can take away the parts of a person's identity that
we are most comfortable with knowing or
not willing to educate ourselves about.
And that's easy for people to do.
I think a lot of times when people see me because I am
a seemingly cis gendered passing person, is cis gendered, for
those who don't know, means a person who
identities as the sex that they were born as, compared to a transgender
person who identifies opposite as the sex that they were born as.
So, for people to see me and
to assume that I'm a cis person, they still see me as a black person, right?
Regardless if I'm cis or trans, that's the very most obvious
thing that a person sees first, is that I'm black.
And then everything else comes after that.
I think that a lot of times we only put into
a person's identity again, what we know or what we're comfortable with.
And that can sometimes be very toxic, right,
because for instance, with my case.
After the incident,
a lot of the spotlight was on the fact that I was trans and not that I was black.
And so a lot of people only heard so much of the story.
And it's a trans woman being attacked.
But there wasn't a lot of, there were a lot of
what was said to me about my race that night.
I was demanded to go back to Africa.
I was called a nigger baby.
So many disgusting epithets that were just thrown at me and
my family that made me think about my life differently, right?
I grew up in South Side, Chicago.
If anybody hasn't ever been to Chicago, it's really segregated.
So I grew up only seeing black people, not even anybody that was Mexican,
or Latin or anything, just black people.
The only white people that I really seen were my school teachers.
And so I never really had to deal
with race or racism in that sense.
And so.
I don't want people to think that it's so
easy to take away parts of a person, to just pick and
choose what they want that's comfortable for them.
And also not to take it upon themselves to create identities for people.
If I tell you that I'm a woman then you should respect that.
And I don't want to go into the ignorant BS around,
well if a person can change their gender, that they can change their race,
that they can change their whole DNA or whatever.
And that's.
A person would know, and I tell this to people all the time, when I go to speak.
Gender, just like race, or class or
any of these things, are social constructs.
They were all created by humans, we know this, right?
We know that there isn't anything that really put into place and
this is for me, this is how I see it, but I think that
a lot of people know about gender based on
the way society enforces it on us, right.
Even from religion, when we look at religion, it's very sexist.
It's very separative.
Women do these things, men do these things.
I mean, the first examples of gender are in the first pages,
I mean, couple of pages of the Bible.
We think about creation, and Adam and Eve,
and Adam obviously is a man because it explains that, and so with Eve.
These ideas that we have on gender, which leads into sexuality,
are based on these mamaless of the gender binary.
Adam and Eve.
The chromosomes theory and
all of these different things that kind of always get debunked.
All of the time, there's always a way out of these stories and
people don't want to see that.
People don't want to see.
I debunk the Adam and Eve story all the time and people get mad about me, right?
And I can just break it down for you just very simply, right?
God created Adam and Eve, right?
Eve ate the apple, they came into consciousness after Adam ate the apple.
And again, it's what's easiest for people, like it's what's convenient for them.
People aren't willing to expand their minds outside of what society
has literally built for them to know, right?
We know that there are so many other stories from that time.
And I can guarantee that at any given point, when humans were created or
existed or whatever the case is, that trans people and
queer people and gender nonconforming people existed, right?
We know this, we know that [LAUGH] sexuality isn't something that,
just a person gets a text message or a memo and say, hey you're going to be gay
tomorrow, or hey, you know what I'm saying, that's not how that works.
And I don't think people are willing to accept that these things that were
put in place for us.
If white society is very close-minded and very blocked off to the larger thing.
And I tell people all the time, we can't see life as black and white.
We can't believe that there's only men and that there's women.
That there's only cat and that there's dog, and we have to understand that there
is a larger area in between of identities, and sexualities, that needs to be
respected, that needs to be acknowledged, and that needs to also be uplifted.
And to move away from this binary that's very toxic and very dangerous, right?
Because we know through the gender binary there are certain things that are uplifted
like rape culture and sexism and unequal pay for
women, compared to men's salaries.
We know that there are so many things that are connected to why
we aren't really progressing in society is because the way that society has done.
They've kind of created these barriers intersectionality,
intersectional lives, and just how these kind of gears.
That's how I kind of look at intersectionality as these different
gears that make this larger machine work.
And we all have our different gears, right.
Again, mines are black, trans, woman,
poor, bisexual.
I have all these different gears and
they're just turning and turning, right?
And they fit together, because we can see
these gears are the things that are my life, specifically.
And when we think of the prison rate, right, back and allowing
abuse that we have seen the people before us who are part of this endure.
And know that we are worth so much more.
And that we are entitled to live and to have these things just like anybody,
and I see that when people who are marginalized, right?
because they can go for trans people, that can go for poor people, that can go for
immigrants, that can go for all these different people.
But we realize that we all intercept, right,
because poor people are the immigrants,
which are the people in our neighborhoods, which are the trans people, right?
Those things intersect, so working around intersectional work is so important.
And I'm just so glad that I'm being a part of it and that the people that I love and
adore and look up to are a part of it.
And that so many people across the world are starting to raise
their voices and demand justice and for everyone.
