PHIL285.04

After doing the reading by Julia Serano I was very interested in how she shared her experiences living both as a men and women. It actually reminded me a lot of the Ted talk that we watched by Paula Stone Williams in the beginning of the semester. One of the main points that I think Serano hits is that transgender women are very marginalized in our society due to the fact that there is such a dominant male culture within our society. If you nail ask too much like a female he is deemed weird. This may mean in the way he acts, dresses, or in the way he speaks. If a woman acts to manly she could be looked at as weird as well. So for a transgender woman our culture makes it very hard for them to express fully who Who they want to be. Both Serano and Williams discuss how transgender women are not properly portrayed to the world. There are many women and male activist out there who are not in support of transgender woman. Serano believes that we need to fight for everyone’s rights that we ne...

While reading Asta’s work I found it hard to understand at some points and found that I was slightly confused. However, after reading her work I think that she is trying to argue that gender is something that we are born with and not something that our society has created. Many of the other authors that we have read have argued that gender is created by our society. In other terms that we are not born with a gender and rather that our surroundings are what helps us identify ourselves and in turn create a gender. Asta argues that married people are normally legally married but some people who are not married and call themselves married even though it is not legal. Meaning that society is going to say they are not married and the perception of how we identify ourselves is great but people are going to treat you how they perceive you to be. I struggle with this concept as I am not fully convinced this is accurate. I think that I agree with some of the other authors that we read that gende...