Transgender

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Transgender
putting into question the categories of female
and male
Challenge to easy notions of binarity
from Clothes make the man

• by
• Kanamaru,Kyohei
• Keller,Megan
• Kim,Young Jung
• Klika,Moorea Alexandra
• Logan,Chelsea Renee

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media representations
Table of Contents
media portrayals of transgender individuals
Cross Dressing
hermaphrodites
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media representations
Table of Contents
media portrayals of transgender individuals
Cross Dressing
hermaphrodites
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Definition

• Transgender (definition) - a person appearing
  or attempting to be a member of the opposite sex,
  as a transsexual or habitual cross-dresser.
• Transgendered - Appearing as, wishing to be
  considered as, or having undergone surgery to
  become a member of the opposite sex.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vC3M9xljxVe8
  (first 20 sec)

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To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julia Newmar

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vbb2zwpBiyuA
  (30120)

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Its Pat

• this video shows how this movie makes fun of
  transvestism as the neighbor tries to figure out
  if Pat is a man or a woman throughout the film.
  In this scene she falls and says ouch, my
  nuts and he thinks that proves that she is a man
  but she is literally talking about the peanuts
  that were in her pants.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vnH_NgtblE6Q

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Chandlers Dad

• Is a drag queen. The title of her show is Viva
  Las Gegas.

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Transamerica

• Felicity Huffmans character a man named Stanley
  Schupak who becomes Bree Osborne. This film
  delves on the serious issues of going through the
  surgery including Bree visiting a therapist and
  having problems with her mother excepting the
  changes.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4a7HXgYou-8
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Ugly Betty

• the character of Alexis Meade played by Rebecca
  Romijn is a male-to-female transsexual.

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Middlesex

• The struggles the main character of Caliope goes
  through as an intersexed person. He has a
  recessive gene that caused him to be born
  Calliope and later Cal. Calliope is raised as a
  girl and later becomes Cal (a man). She runs away
  from home when her parents and doctors want her
  to have sex re-assignment surgery.

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media representations
Table of Contents
media portrayals of transgender individuals
Cross Dressing
hermaphrodites
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Candice Cane, Dirty Sexy Money

• Born Brenden McDaniel
• Now plays Carmelita, Billy Baldwins love
  interest on Dirty Sexy Money
• Is a transsexual woman playing a transsexual
  woman
• Is powerful, sexy and breaks barriers.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vcW4yjJtPuy4

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David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust

• Musician in the 70s and 80s
• Always on the cutting edge of fashion
• Had an alter ego named Ziggy Stardust, who was
  introduced in 1972
• Can be considered a Drag Queen due to the
  ambiguous clothing and out of this world makeup
  he wore for performance
• David Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll
  Hall of Fame in 1996.

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• Manifested in Ziggys songs they perceived the
  true depth of the meaning of the word truth.
  And so they demanded more and more, until they
  tapped the very source of this fragile creature
  and sucked out his energy, channeling it through
  the crowds to reach the hysteria. Demanding more
  and more... until finally the truth had become
  like shattered fragments of glass, and his soul
  had been ravaged. And there was nothing left to
  mark his passing except tiny grains of Stardust
  which was swept up by the wind and sprinkled into
  the coloured hair of children all across the
  planet Earth...." Unknown source

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Miss J. Alexander, ANTM

• Resident runway coach and self-proclaimed diva,
  on Americas Next Top Model
• Teaches the contestants on the show how to work
  the runway and is a judge on the panel
• Is an expert in his field and happens to dress as
  the opposite sex most or all of the time

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media representations
Table of Contents
media portrayals of transgender individuals
Cross Dressing
hermaphrodites
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Definition

• Act of wearing clothing commonly associated with
  another gender within a particular society.

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Facts about Cross-dressing

• Does not equal to gender identity.
• Most of cross dressers are heterosexual
  (Clothes make man)
• Equals.
• Gender Performance
• Performances in according with a script (The
  Queen of Queer)

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Camouflage
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How it goes beyond the binary?

• Anti-hegemonic, works against stereotype.

• Challenge to easy notions of binarity.

• putting into question the categories of female
  and male.

from Clothes make the man
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Misunderstanding
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media representations
Table of Contents
media portrayals of transgender individuals
Cross Dressing
hermaphrodites
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Definition

• Hermaphroditism
• Any individual organism that possesses both
• male and female reproductive organs during
• their life span.

Reclining Hermaphrodite 1st-century BC sculpture
Premnas biaculeatus, a protandrous hermaphrodite
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Facts about Hermaphroditism
There are two different categories of
hermaphrodites
- Synchronous Hermaphrodites An organism
which possess both active male and active female
reproductive organs at the same time
- Sequential Hermaphrodites Both male and female
reproductive organs are possessed but only one
is active.
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Hermaphroditism in Media

• Shows
• House MD
• -South Park

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Hermaphroditism in Media pt. 2
Celebrities Ciara - rumored to have been a
hermaphrodite Until the age of 11. Jamie Lee
Curtis - Also rumored to have been A
hermaphrodite.
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Conclusion
putting into question the categories of female
and male
Challenge to easy notions of binarity
from Clothes make the man

• Strong Connection with Caucasia
• Construction, not Innate
• Judith Butler
• Script
• Garber
• Category Crisis (failure of definitional
  distinction)