Transphobia

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Transphobia refers to the fear, hatred, and discrimination that people who are transgender may face based on their gender identity and expression.

Gender identity: Understanding the concept of gender identity as a personal, internal sense of one's own gender, which may or may not align with the sex assigned at birth.
Gender expression: Understanding the ways in which individuals express their gender, which can include clothing, mannerisms, speech patterns, and other cultural and social cues.
Sexuality: Understanding the different ways in which individuals experience and express their sexual orientation, which can include attraction to people of the same or different gender identities.
Transphobia: Understanding the ways in which prejudice, discrimination, and violence are directed toward individuals who do not conform to normative gender roles or identities.
Intersectionality: Understanding the ways in which different forms of oppression, such as sexism, racism, heterosexism, ableism, and classism, intersect and compound one another.
Transgender healthcare: Understanding the medical and psychological aspects of gender transition, including hormone therapy, surgery, and counseling.
Legal issues: Understanding the legal frameworks and protections for transgender individuals, including employment discrimination, hate crime laws, and healthcare access.
History and culture: Understanding the historical and cultural contexts of transgender identities, including the ways in which they have been perceived, represented, and marginalized in different societies and time periods.
Allyship: Understanding how to be an effective ally to the transgender community, including taking action to support transgender rights and challenging transphobic attitudes and behaviors.
Self-care: Understanding the importance of self-care and mental health support for transgender individuals, including coping strategies for dealing with societal stigma and discrimination.
"Transphobia consists of negative attitudes, feelings, or actions towards transgender people or transness in general."
"Transphobia can include fear, aversion, hatred, violence or anger towards people who do not conform to social gender expectations."
"It is often expressed alongside homophobic views and hence is often considered an aspect of homophobia."
"Transphobia is a type of prejudice and discrimination, similar to racism and sexism, and transgender people of color are often subjected to all three forms of discrimination at once."
"Transgender youth may experience sexual harassment, bullying, and violence in school, foster care, and welfare programs, as well as potential abuse from within their family."
"Adult victims experience public ridicule, harassment including misgendering, taunts, threats of violence, insisting that they must change their physical bodies to comport with societal perceptions of gender, and false arrest; many feel unsafe in public."
"Some are refused healthcare or suffer workplace discrimination, including being fired for being transgender."
"They also suffer discrimination from some people within LGBT social movements, and from some feminists."
"The stress created by transphobia can cause negative mental health outcomes which may lead to substance use disorders, running away from home (in minors), and a higher rate of suicide."
"In the Western world, there have been gradual changes towards the establishment of policies of non-discrimination and equal opportunity."
"The trend is also taking shape in developing nations."
"Campaigns regarding the LGBT community are being spread around the world to improve social acceptance of nontraditional gender identities."
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