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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

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

Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006.

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.

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.

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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. 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. Sean Cahill

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

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.
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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.

Great draft! I really like how in one of the sources you are able to read a personal article

of somebodys experience with being transgender. You seem to use a lot of valuable and

useful sources that pertain to your topic and brings different insights and examples of true

cases of people who have been through it. Id like to hear more about the government

side of this topic, like different laws and opinions of people who dont agree with people

going through change. Cant wait to read the paper!