Sometimes Transgendered Individuals Are Annoyed When Their Genders Are Treated

question 60

Multiple Choice

Sometimes transgendered individuals are annoyed when their genders are treated as a matter of "performance" and not as "natural" like other people's genders. This is annoying because:

• A) in reality, there is no element of "performance" to transgendered people's genders.
• B) transgendered people are the only ones who have to perform in this way, and it's condescending and rude to emphasize difference.
• C) most people enact gender in the same way transgendered people do.
• D) transgendered people have to suffer much more discrimination than everyone else.
• E) transgendered people have such radically different genders from everyone else that no one understands their genders.

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