This essay focuses on prejudice against transgender people. Two basic concepts you should know- “Gender identity” and “Physical sex”- To know transgender,
The Act on Special Cases for Persons with Gender Identity Disorder, which is a law concerning the procedure for changing the family register, is contrary to international human rights law and international medical best practices.
Sure, some transgender people have been diagnosed with a “gender identity disorder” (GID) and want medical treatment as stipulated by the law, but many don’t. It shouldn’t be asked. And, in addition, a set of medical requirements fosters widespread prejudice against transgender people. Two basic concepts you should know- “Gender identity” and “Physical sex”- To know transgender, you first need to know two concepts. It is gender identity (mental sex) and physical sex (body sex) (Fleming, et al, 2018).
1. Gender identity
This literally refers to “self-identified sex.” For example, if you think of yourself as a woman, you can explain that your gender identity is a woman. However, gender identity is not limit to “male” and “female”. For example, there is gender identity such as “neutral” and “asexual”, which is sometimes call X-gender (Fleming, et al, 2018).
2. Physical sex
Physical sex refers to sex in the body structure .
This is often explain as the same gender as the family register, but currently. It is in Japan there are only “male” and “female” genders in the family register, but there. They are only two physical genders. Is not believe to be. For example , it is called DSD (Disorders of Sex Development), which is a state of the body that has develop partly differently from the structure of the body that is consider by society to be like this for men and this for women. There is also a case (Kinney & Muzzey, 2021).