Literature Review

Literature Review

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Literature review

With the passage of time, social taboos started getting popularity on the various public forums and it has been seen that things that were unacceptable in past were accepted by few of the nations, countries and societies. In the modern age, when all the things that challenged our social and traditional norms in past started getting promoted by certain groups. In the present age, terms like gender, sexuality and gender sociology etc. are becoming more common than ever before, as people and researchers become familiar with these terms that started taking more interest in such topics as being new they wanted to explore more about these terms (Carobene,et,al,2014). Many of the researchers worked upon these terms and concepts for letting people know about things that they were mostly unfamiliar with. This fact must be taken in account that it is not at all easy thing to initiate research on Trans, transgender and Homosexual community. In most of the societies, these things are still not acceptable.

According to Gabi Calleja, a numbers of Council Directives have been sent to the Maltese legislation in order to protect the certain groups of individual from discrimination. These legislative changes were made for making two Equality Commissions. Both of the commissions that have been made were specially protecting the rights of Trans, Trans genders and Homosexuals from any sort of gender discrimination. LGBT has been the most part of the discussion that was arranged by the jury of the commission. In this article, the author also claims that it is a sensitive issue and most of the time; authorities show no or less interest for discussing on such topic.

There are many researchers who worked upon these topics i.e. Trans, transgender and homosexuals. Major contribution was made from Judith Butler who played a significant role for making people understand that there are many people like Venus who by birth was a man but wanted to change the traditional norms. Venus wanted to live life of a female by mentioning this in her research Judith pointed towards the conception of transgender (Prosser,et,al,2013).

There has been seen a research made on the same issues as people have many concerns regarding the rights of homosexuals and Trans genders. According to Whittle, it is the responsibility of the authorities to look into the sensitive matters of homosexuals and trans genders, such as they should be protected regarding their privacy (Pflum,et,al,2015). One of the most important issues that have been highlighted by most of the researchers and especially by Whittle is about the providing protection to their privacy and personal life. Matters like birth and gender identity are more sensitive. One of the most threatening challenges that are being faced by Trans, trans genders and homosexuals is that even today they are not accepted in most of the societies so they cannot claim for their rights but someone has to stand for providing them all their basic rights that they deserve.

Different researchers focused on various aspects and challenges that are being faced by Trans, trans genders and homosexuals likewise another major study could be looked upon for knowing how these people are surviving in societies where they are inhumanely treated. Ruth Neustifer in her reference to the homosexuals, claims that there is need of more research on such groups as this reality cannot be denied that there exist such population, so for knowing more about them, people requires more information about them so that best ways of treating them could be find out. Another major concern that has been highlighted by Ruth is that an older person who belongs to homosexual population must be treated with respect and should be given adequate support and services.

There is another area of research that needs to be explored as far as trans, homosexual and trans genders are concerned and according to Kimmel, Rose and David these areas are focused on reducing the impact of ageism so that positive role models in homosexual community could be presented and people of that community could follow them (Drescher,et,al,2014). They also mentioned that there are multiple reasons for doing research in this area as it would increase intergenerational knowledge and contact in homosexual community.

This fact cannot be denied that community of Trans, trans genders and homosexuals is emerging as a community whose number is getting increased rapidly and this is because people who were afraid of society in past, are no more afraid of showing their real side to the world by raising voice for their rights. There is another research that is popular for holding the attention of people. This research was done Savage and Miller. In this research they have spotted light on unique areas that used to be major root cause of various issues for last few decades. They pointed towards the sensitivity of such community and increasing ratio of suicides committed by homosexuals, Trans and trans genders (Butler,et,al,2000). They have also pointed towards the isolation of teen gays and lesbians by quoting that homosexuals and Trans are becoming a victim of suicide and isolation. For protecting them there has been launched an online campaign by a gay activist Dan Savage and her husband Terry Miller. She started an online campaign called “It gets better” for encouraging the homosexual teenagers so that they could be protected from bullying. In this campaign this couple invited people for supporting and protecting this population that is unable to protect its own rights by posting online videos that would give a clear message to the trans genders and homosexuals that it is fine to be unique and belonging to another community. There was seen many people who joined this couple and supported their online campaign on their online forums.

References:

Butler, J. (2000). Longing for Recognition Commentary on the Work or Jessica Benjamin. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 1(3), 271-290.

Carobene, M., Bolcic, F., Farías, M. S. D. R., Quarleri, J., & Ávila, M. M. (2014). HIV, HBV, and HCV molecular epidemiology among trans (transvestites, transsexuals, and transgender) sex workers in Argentina. Journal of medical virology, 86(1), 64-70.

Drescher, J., & Byne, W. (Eds.). (2014). Treating transgender children and adolescents: An interdisciplinary discussion. Routledge.

Pflum, S. R., Testa, R. J., Balsam, K. F., Goldblum, P. B., & Bongar, B. (2015). Social support, trans community connectedness, and mental health symptoms among transgender and gender nonconforming adults. Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity, 2(3), 281.

Prosser, J. (2013). Judith Butler: Queer feminism, transgender, and the transubstantiation of sex. In The transgender studies reader (pp. 273-296). Routledge.