Assignment #8- Draft 2By:Luara Pires

How gender is created?

Research on topic.

Possible debates.

What age should the treatment should be allowed?

Pro. Con .Some times a young person might be confused and go through the treatment.This would help.

For those that are completely sure it going to be unfair, and they would have to suffer. No free choice.

Can it be argued that gender dysphonia could be input unto you?

Pro. Con .

Children, by their looks and activities, toys they are given . ( socialisation)

Scientif explanations of chromosomes and gene

Is this right or wrong?

Pro. Con .Scientific explanations of how the person feels ( right).

Religion, you should be how you are born, and act within your gender roles. Reproduction.

Layout of Documentary

Gender Dysphoria

Episode 1:   How gender is created. Nature vs. Nurture.

Episode 2:   How can toys and activities determines  you gender.

Episode 3:  The media, family, education and workplace influence. Episode 4:  Gender Dysphoria. 

Gender Dysphoria

Gender dysphoria is a condition in which a person feels that there is a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity

For example, a person may have the anatomy of a man, but gender identify as a woman.

• They have a strong desire to live according to their gender identity, rather than their biological sex.

• Some people undergo treatment so that their physical appearance is more consistent with their gender identity.

What is gender Dysphoria?

Some symptoms.

The symptoms of gender dysphoria can appear at a very young age. For example, a child may refuse to wear typical boys' or girls' clothes, or dislike taking part in typical boys' or girls' games and activities

In most cases, this type of behaviour is just a normal part of growing up, but in cases of gender dysphoria, it persists into later childhood and through to adulthood.

Adults with gender dysphoria can feel trapped inside a body that does not match their gender identity. This can cause feelings of discomfort and anxiety

More informationIt is estimated that 1 in 11,500 people experience gender dysphoria.

Scientific explanation.

Boys are XYGirls are XX• When this chromosomes get together it already produces the sex cells, Which

immediately sends a message to the brain and the foetus is already born knowing what gender they are .

• However children with gender dysphoria is when this happens , but the message isn't send to the brain properly, therefore they are mixed between their sex and their gender.

Another possibility.

one in 100 or so babies is born with some kind of sex differentiation anomaly

This can be caused when the pregnant mother has additional hormones in her system, which she has absorbed from, say, medication or the environment, and which she has passed on to the foetus, or the foetus,

With this it can cause strange chromosomes pattern.

Such as :47,XXY, 47,XYY, 45,XO, 49,XXXYY

This can also cause gender dysphoria.

Gender dysphoria in children.

• Very rarely, children may express this incongruence between gender identity and the genital sex.

• Symptoms of unease with the assigned gender role• If these children are unable to express their awkwardness, their discomfort may

grow through adolescence and into adulthood• as families and society, in ignorance of their primary gender identity, relentlessly

reinforce gender roles in accordance with their physical appearance alone

• However, some children are able to express a strong cross-sex identification, and sometimes insist on living in the opposite role. Such as wearing the other gender clothing and habbits.

Some effects.

• Those who are not treated in adolescence may continue to struggle to conform they may start on relationships, marriages and parenthood in an attempt to lead ‘normal’ lives

• however, they may be unable to continue with the farce of presenting themselves as something they know they are not

• This sometimes lead people into depression and it serious cases suicide.

Legal Issues.• If you have undergone the treatment know as transition, which is- Living a year in the gender you prefer- Surgery Then you are known as a transsexual with this legal rights come along.

• In the UK, driving licences and passports may be re-issued according to the individual’s post-transition gender status.

• The Gender Recognition Act (2004)has been in operation since 2005. This Act enables trans men and women to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate and (as long as the birth was originally registered in the UK) they may obtain a new birth certificate.

• They are now able to marry in their newly recognised gender.

• The Sex Discrimination Act (Gender Reassignment) Regulations protect trans people against discrimination in the workplace.

This is how some children can be forced away from gender dysphonia, and sometimes this is how they start to find out.

Gender stereotypes.

Gender stereotypes.• Roughly at the age of 3 children already know their gender roles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VqsbvG40Ww

Kids were asked questions about gender roles.

Children had to choose which doll does which type of job.

Is there inequalities

within Multiculturalism

in London?

Inequalities within multiculturalism?

DebatesWas the ban of hijab in France a Islamophic act, and was it right?

Is islamophobia just racism within a religion?

Are Muslims the ones that caused all of this?

PRO CON

PRO

PRO

CON

CON

Obey by the rules of the country and culture.

Free choice, and respect for religion.

Yes as it is the religion that makes them do what they do.

The way they look linked with the way they act.

They act the way they do and there is the consequence, so they created islamophobia.

The media created this and that’s what brought fear of Muslims to the world.

Layout of the documentary Inequalities within multiculturalism.

Episode 1:

 The different cultures in London, habit and living standards.

Episode 2:

Success within foreigners. ( effort)

Episode 3:

The representation of woman in different cultures.

Episode 4:   Islamophobia

Islamophobia

What is Islamophobia?

• Islamophobia represents the prejudice against, hate or fear of, Muslims.

• The term dates back to the early 1900s, but its modern use originates during the late 1980s or early 1990s

• It is considered the fear and dislike of all muslims.

Some information• Islamophobia is anti-Muslim feeling and violence

are based on “race” and/or religion.• Islamophobia may also target people who have

Muslim names, or have a look that is associated with Muslims. i.e.: in the London bombs in 2006 where the police shot an innocent man , just because they though he looked Muslim.

According to Alan Johnson, Islamophobia sometimes can be nothing more than prejudice or racism "wrapped in religious terms."

Some views on Islam• Islam is seen as a huge alliance, fixed and unresponsive to change.

• It does not have values in common with other cultures, is not affected by them and does not influence them.

• It is seen as inferior to the West. It is seen as brutal, irrational, primitive, and sexist.

• It is seen as violent, aggressive, threatening, supportive of terrorism, and engaged in a clash of civilizations.

• It is seen as a political ideology, used for political or military advantage.

• Criticisms made of "the West" by Muslims are rejected out of hand.

• Aggression towards Islam is used to justify discriminatory practices towards Muslims and exclusion of Muslims from mainstream society.

• Anti-Muslim aggression is seen as natural and normal.

A sociologist Isabel maranci says the following about Islamophobia.

•The increasing Islamophobia in the West is related to a rising denial of multiculturalism.

•Islam is widely regarded as the most resistant culture against Western, democratic values and its Judaeo-Christian heritage.

• "Islamophobia is a ‘phobia’ of multiculturalism and the effect that Islam can have in Europe and the West through cultural processes.

A Yemeni response to cultural islamophobia

•hundreds of Yemenis gathered in front of the American Embassy.

•The angry protesters succeeded in climbing the walls of the embassy and to set some cars in its parking lot into fire. The protest left three people killed and more than 30 wonded according to some media reports but no causalities among the Americans

Islamophobia website• The islamophobia website is a Muslim website where

they are trying to defend themselves and as well bring peace.

• There are videos uploads with some debates.• And there are also a link to where you can donate

money to stop islamophobia.

Islamophobia in Britain. PAST

FUTURE ...The day will come when: ( Muslims hope.)

1 British Muslims participate fully and confidently at all levels in the political, cultural, social and economic life of the country

2 Islamophobic behaviour is recognised as unacceptable and is no longer be tolerated in public. Whenever it occurs people in positions of leadership

3 Legal sanctions against religious discrimination in employment and servicedelivery offences aggravated by religious hostility are dealt with severely

4 The need of young British Muslims to develop their religious and cultural identity in a British context is accepted and supported

How is manifestation of anti Muslim in Britain.

• attacks on mosques and desecration of Muslim cemeteries

• widespread and routine negative stereotypes in the media, including the broadsheets, andin the conversations and ‘common sense’ of non-Muslims.

• people talk and write about Muslims in ways that would not be acceptable if the reference were to Jewish people, forexample, or to black people

• negative stereotypes and remarks in speeches by political leaders.the claim that Muslims more than others must choose between ‘the British way’ and ‘theterrorist way

•verbal and physical attacks on Muslims inpublic places