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Annotated Bibliography

Gender Issues: Gender Dysphoria

Alexandra Uribe

Professor Malcolm Campbell

English 1104

March 15, 2017

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Annotated Bibliography

Cahill, Sean, and Sarah Tobias. Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Families. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2007, muse-jhu-

edu.librarylink.uncc.edu/book/7271. Accessed 2 Mar. 2017.

This book goes in depth about the laws and policies that affect LGBT families and sheds

light on the lack of protection these families receive. The authors use information from

demographic research as well as the U.S. census. The authors argue that these laws are

unjust and immediate action needs to be taken in order to create a just society. In this

book, the authors talk about family rights, health care, and unequal treatment including

pensions and social security. Transgender families have an extreme lack of legal

protections. There is no non-discrimination law that includes gender identity, also fifteen

percent of transgender people live in poverty. This book shows the dynamics of these

families, the lack of legal protections for their families, their relationships to their

children, and other important issues that affect the transgender community. The authors

also address opposition to those in support of transgender families by showing research

results including the effects on the children of transgender parents, racial differences and

parenting rates, income, etc. A study included in the book shows that having transgender

parents has no effect on children. Sean Cahill is Director of Health Policy Research at the

Fenway Institute, where he works on LGBT health policy, HIV policy, elder policy, and

youth issues and Sarah Tobias is an LGBT activist who has a Ph. D. in political science.

Currah, Paisley, Juang, Richard M., and Minter, Shannon. Transgender Rights. Minneapolis,

Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006.

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This book gives a great understanding of what being transgender really means. It

introduces all political, social, and legal issues transgender men and women and their

families face. The authors also go into great detail about the rights that transgender have

and the laws that affect their families as well as themselves. The primary reason this book

was written was to help give those in doubt a new perspective on what being transgender

really is. The authors collected their information from number of sources and have had

first-hand experiences with the transgender movement.

Paisley Currah is the executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the

CUNY Graduate Center and one of the founding board members of the Transgender Law

and Policy Institute and is devoted to transgender issues. He is also a coeditor of TSQ:

Transgender Studies Quarterly which is a non-medical academic journal. Richard M.

Juang is cochair of the advisory board of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

He is also a member of the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association. Shannon Minter is

the Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and has led many cases

affecting the LGBT community. All of the authors have had a major impact on the LGBT

community and built a better understanding for others affected through transgenderism.

Stein, Marc. Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America, vol.

1, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004, pp. vii-xii. Gale Virtual Reference Library,

librarylink.uncc.edu/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?

p=GVRL&sw=w&u=char69915&v=2.1&id=GALE

%7CCX3403600007&it=r&asid=2da37aca796b06434aaa7a53b1e06b67. Accessed 13

Mar. 2017.
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This book is one of the best sources of information I have found. This book covers over

400 years of LGBT history and culture, while providing hundreds of personal

experiences. This book goes into great detail about every group of the LGBT community

however I just picked out information that pertained to my individual topic. This book

also covers economic issues, healthcare issues, and many other aspects relating to the

topic and how if affects each individual. This book includes just about anything you

could think of pertaining to the LGBT community including how different races and

religions generally feel about gender dysphoria, statistics about populations with

transgenderism, and laws and politics affecting their community. This source provides

you with everything you need to know about transgenderism from what it means to be

transgender to the way it is viewed by societies. This source also includes a timeline of

transgender progress, how it was viewed at a specific point of time, and laws that have

been passed/ proposed. This book is helpful for anyone curious about the LGBT

community.

Zales, Erika. Personal interview. March 2017.

Throughout several interviews, I was able to find out many details on an individuals

personal experience of being transgender. Erika was born a male but never felt like she

was in the right body. She grew up in a conservative catholic family. As a child she

explained to me how she would dress up in her sisters clothes and feel like thats what

she was meant to be in. Growing up, her parents shunned the thought of having a

transgender child and she began to try and hide her feelings. In these interviews, I get to

hear first-hand experiences on coming out to her family, her journey through

transitioning, and the bullying she received growing up. She was also living in Orlando
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during the time the Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting happened. The event was a horrific

hate crime against the LGBT community where 49 people had lost their lives. I got to

hear about how she felt during that time and how unsafe she felt during the time after.

Interviews are a great source of information while researching and I believe the

information I gathered really strengthened my writing. Everyone has a different

experience with their transgender journey from coming out to transitioning, but it was

very interesting to me to hear an individual story and ask any questions I wanted to know

about her particular experience.