Lisa Blamfort Discussion #6

In this essay “Cisgender Privilege, Intersectionality, and the Criminalization of CeCe McDonald: Why Intercultural Communication Needs Transgender Studies” Dr Julia R. Johnson define “transgender” persons who identify as transfeminine, transmasculine, transsexual, Two-Spirit, cross-dresser, genderqueer, same-gender- loving, in the life, female-to-male (FTM), male-to-female (MTF), intersex and more. she argues that her definition is problematic in some contexts because some people of color associate transgender with whiteness and western conception ss of gender binary. But Johnson ultimately settle on using in his essay ‘‘trans’’ because the author wants to alert gender nonconformity and to constantly remind people that gender is known in its interaction with other identity heading.

Johnson defines “cissexual” and “cisgender” If one’s sex identity matches her/his morphology, then s/he is cissexual. If one’s gender identity aligns with sex morphology, s/he is said to be cisgender. she argues that those definitions are significant because they highlight that sex and gender are most often recognize in connection to a solid and socially irrevocable focus when, in fact, the categories of sex and gender are fabricated and executed. CeCe McDonalds’s case does connect to definitions of cisgender and of Cissexual because Schmitz and his friends settled gendered, racialized, and sexed frontier between themselves and McDonald. She also faced cissexism through the court system because she placed men’s prison even though she identified herself as a woman.

According to Johnson the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality does impact McDonald’s life and, in particular, this case against her because her arrest, sentencing, and imprisonment and the way treat trans people of color in the prison system

I believe a trans woman or men can openly secure a job in my field of study because accountant or bookkeeper mostly work behind close, doors our role are prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information. Documents financial transactions by entering account information in a computer, we don’t interact with clients if we don’t want to, we can just make a phone call, it is not like a social worker job.

I learn that the system criminal is not fair to minorities because of People of color, particularly black males, face longer sentences than their white non-Hispanic counterparts for similar crimes. People of color are extremely overrepresented in the juvenile justice system and they are making up more than 60 percent of the people behind bars among 47% black trans people. Black transgender people face awful abuse in jail and prison by inmates and staff. They are lodged according to their gender at birth, instead of their gender identify. They are denied medical care. There is nothing just or fair in the criminal system for black trans and people of color. There’s only barbarism and savagery for them.