Julia R Johnson pushed for the importance and the need of transgender studies within the intercultural communication and how one’s identity is constructed and influenced by the surrounding environment and the influence of certain social groups, and how each one of us can help disturb the power inequality in the society.
According to Johnson ”transgender is persons who challenge gender normative which includes persons who identify as trans-feminine, transmasculine, transsexual, two Spirit, cross-dressers, Chanticleer, same-gender-loving, in the life, female to male, male to female, inter-sex and more”. Julia’s Johnson’s description of a transgender person whose gender identity is not aligned with the gender assigned at birth. Most transgender doesn’t feel that they belong to their body and feel a disconnection to this body physically and emotionally.
Adding this feeling of not belonging and looking for the inner you to the society judgemental opinions and values will eventually create a disturbing atmosphere full of miscommunication, hate, and anger between the transgender and their community.
Julia R. Johnson argues that her definition is problematic because in ”some context some people of color transgender signals witnesses and the corresponding Western conceptions of gender binary transgender is considered an inaccurate deception of the gender identity”.
Johnson has decided to use trans with us asterisk and hyphen to signal gender non-conformity of all kinds.
The prefix Cis in Cissexual ad Cisgender means the same side as. Therefore a cisgender person is someone who’s morphology is aligns with her or his identity. And a cissexual person is someone whose sex identity matches her or his morphology. These definitions are significant because Cisgender and Cissexual people have unearned privileges that represent who they are as a government issue license, they never have to suffer from being a transgender and fighting for their rights like CeCe McDonald or Marsha ( event if CeCe is a transgender she was incarcerated in all men jail). they have no fear of being rejected from the community, their own families, and losing their job, and or health care.
The intersection of race, gender, and sexuality impacted McDonald ‘s case heavily for a lot of reasons:
a-The assumption is that African Americans who come from a poor community with low income are all violent and want to create a disturbance.
b-Being transgender and disturbing the norm of the society that only approves of Cisgender and cissexual people and support them will definitely create more fire and impact her case negatively.
Working in retail and cosmetics, in particular, opened my eyes and my personality to meet and adapt with a lot of personalities and also with transgender, guy, and cisgender people. I believe that this field will always welcome anyone regardless of sexual orientation and gender as long as one is good and professional,s/he will always be welcomed.
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