Hormones 2016

Transphobia
• The refusal to acknowledge a trans persons true gender,
• Refusal to use the correct name for a trans person,
• Repeated and deliberate mis-gendering of trans people,
• Exclusion of trans people from activities, services or conversations
(LGBT+, 2016).
Transphobia has been defined by the UK Crown Prosecution Service as -
"The fear of or a dislike directed towards trans people, or a fear
of or dislike directed towards their perceived lifestyle, culture
or characteristics, whether or not any specific trans person has
that lifestyle or characteristic. The dislike does not have to be
so severe as hatred. It is enough that people do something or
abstain from doing something because they do not like trans
people."
Transphobia and prejudice against trans people are sadly all too common in
our society and trans people often meet with discrimination and prejudice
when they’re trying to get on with their lives and perform everyday
activities (LGBT+, 2016).
Transphobia is fear, discrimination or hatred against transgender people or
people of non-binary gender.
Transphobia is often closely connected with homophobia and is justified
for the same reasons that homophobes use to justify their hatred of
gays (religion, prescriptive gender norms, etc.). Indeed, many clueless
homophobes conflate homosexual people with transgender people and
cross-dressers. Transphobia also manifests itself in some schools of radical
feminist thought, as some feminists resent the idea that people who aren’t
"really" women might make claims as women.
On a societal scale, it can manifest itself in any number of ways, from
systemic discrimination against transgender people in housing, healthcare,
and employment, to a relatively high murder rate, to a series of demeaning
depictions in the mass media.
Media and police
Transgender people are regularly discriminated against by the media
and police. Both the media and police when involving a transgender
person invariably use the descriptor "transsexual" or "transvestite" (with
its associated archaic psychiatric baggage) in place of transgender.
Transgender people face high rates of rape and deaths in custody while in
prison. The media, in going for sensationalised stories, typically publish the
transgender person’s previous name without permission even if they have
legally changed their name and that name change is protected by privacy
laws. An individual’s gender identity is suggested in these stories to be
fake or a fraud by connotation, with the intention to deceive.
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