Centering Intersectional Differences

Centering Intersectional Differences
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Centering Intersectional Differences
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Centering intersectional differences can bring justice to transgender people. Notably, intersectionality entails gender oppression that individuals experience due to social categorizations, such as race, marital status, gender, social and economic statuses, and sexual orientation. Stryker portrays challenges that transgender people encounter in society due to their sexual identity. Society recognizes gender as either being a male or female. Some of the problems transsexual individuals face include employment discrimination, undocumented workers, state surveillance, racism, population profiling, and denial of proper healthcare and social services. The diversity of embodiment in social categories should not be a reference point for all injustices faced by transgender individuals. Whether male, female, or transsexual, justice should prevail.
We learned several DOC concepts in the past quarter and some strategies that help the author to argue about justice. I chose the text written by Susan Stryker to argue for justice. Using the strategy "centering intersectional differences," Stryker mentions transgender feminism as a framework for justice. In her article "Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question," she talks about the situation of transgender groups and the social problems faced by these people and their inner psychological changes. From some example Stryker faced in real life, she pushes us to think more about feminism, gender, and identity differently." More kinds of intersections (Strom, 2021). This reminds me of the strategy "centering intersectional differences." As I recall what I learned last quarter in the "doc concepts explained," the definition of intersectionality is "the shifting interaction among categories and ideologies related to gender, class, and race in a specific culture in a specific historical period." And in my opinion, "intersectionality" is a branch theory concept of feminism. Indeed, it shows the gender oppression experienced by an individual, which often has the oppression intersected with other intersections from different dimensions, such as gender, sexual orientation, economic and social statuses, race, and marital status (Zhu, 2020). Stryker depicts that "central intersectional differences" make individuals realize that the diversity of embodiment in social categories should not be either a man or woman since it violates the justice of transgender people.
Society holds various stereotypes on specific individuals due to the differences in gender, race, marital status, social and economic status, and sexual orientation. In other words, a person is obliged to identify as either a man or woman. If one is transgender, the individual faces all forms of discrimination, and in most cases, the person struggles to try to fit in society. Stryker shows that it is not simple to live through her own real-life experiences without identifying as either a male or female. At some point, she says that "my transsexual body is different from most other bodies, and while this difference does not impair me, it has been medicalized, an...