Learning Transgender: From the Outside Looking In - Couverture souple

Ulsamer, Bertold

 
9798479062636: Learning Transgender: From the Outside Looking In

Synopsis

Transgender is not familiar to all people, for some it is new and somehow incomprehensible. It was the same for me. But I wanted to understand more about it. This book contains my journey into the uncharted territory of transgender and some of what lies nearby.
This is a book for readers who also want to understand more about what is behind transgender and why some of it is so controversial.

These are the questions I asked myself:

  • Why is transgender coming to the forefront, especially in this day and age?
  • What is a man? What is a woman?
  • Do you have a gender or has it been "assigned" to you?
  • What are possible causes when someone feels he or she has been assigned the wrong gender?
  • How can sports solve the dilemma of trans women?
  • What if someone wrongly thinks he or she is transgender?
  • What if transgender becomes fashionable among teens and children?
  • Where do the huge waves of general anger and outrage in society come from?
  • Does "victim culture" describe what is happening in American universities?
  • How to deal with pain and anger from personal history?
  • What's behind deadnaming, microaggressions, and trigger warnings?
  • Are arguments about transgender perhaps distracting from other issues? From which ones?
  • Is there a spiritual dimension of transgender?
I am not a biologist, not a sociologist, not a philosopher, not a historian, certainly not a gender researcher (all of this also not in the feminine, but only in the so limited masculine form!). What I bring to the table: my expertise as a psychologist and therapist, my life experience, and my relatively practical "common sense" (if such a thing even exists). Methodologically, I've spent a lifetime educating myself in psychology. You'll find some of that here.

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