There is no need for temples, No need for complicated philosophy…

1. There is no need for temples, No need for complicated philosophy… Our own brain, our own heart – is our temple; The Philosophy is kindness…

2. Celebrating Diversity MakabagongKasarian

3. Baby Boy Baby Girl When a person is born, they are immediately classified as a baby boy or a baby girl..

4. And everybody is happy because all is simple and clear…

5. There are males and females.. Female Male

6. You have XX for females and XY for males.. Woman Man and we all live happily ever after.. XX XY

7. Turner SyndromeOnly one fully functional X .. And now we find out there are females who lack sex-determining chromosome..

8. Klinefelter’s SyndromeXXY Syndrome Or males with an extra X chromosome So without their choice - they are also females biologically..

9. Swyer SyndromeXY chromosome pattern in females Natalie Kirk who found out that she had Swyer Syndrome And individuals who have female appearance and female external genitalia but with an XY chromosome. This occurs 1 in 30,000 people because of gene mutation.

10. Is it really just either male or female? Biological Sex… is based on… 1. CHROMOSOME….XX or XY (?)… .. and then sometimes…. ….X only..orXXY also.. 2. EXTERNAL GENITALIA… penisorvagina.. or… both… 

11. Hermaphroditeswith both male and female reproductive organs

12. Is it really just either male or female? Biological Sex… 1. CHROMOSOME….XX or XY… ….X only..orXXY also.. 2. EXTERNAL GENITALIA… penisorvagina.. or… both…  THERE IS MORE DIVERSITY IN BIOLOGICAL SEX! .. who says biological sex truly come only in two forms?

13. Swyer SyndromeXY chromosome pattern in females Jeanne Nollman is married with two adopted teenage children. She is trying to help other children and their parents learn and embrace their “gender” Improved understanding of gender identity led to shift in medical strategies.. Before, what a child looked like from the outside and how they were raised would define their gender. Now, Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Ethics permit people to choose their gender or be both and its ok.

14. ZOE BRAIN (intersex) A Rocket Scientist from Canberra, Australia. He was born in 1958 and is happily married since 1981. He fathered a son in 2001. As he grew older, his physical features turned into that of a female’s. ..he said..“How was I to know I was different?”

15. People like me have been described as the spawn of Satan. Well, how does one argue against that? I can show that I’ve led a pretty decent life, that I’ve contributed to society, that I’ve tried to be a good parent. But society, in return, has largely denied my very existence

16. Intersex “But for my partner….having your husband turn into a woman before your eyes is shattering. And what do I tell my son?This is miraculous, and wonderful, and hilarious, and terribly tragic too.” “So, what am I? After the transition I really wondered about this. Am I male? Am I female? Am I some sort of mix? You know, what the heck, at the end of the day, I’m me!”

17. Intersex a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of male or female • - with ambiguous genitalia • diff. physical conditions like congenital adrenal hyperplasia, progestin induced virilization, androgen insensitivity syndrome etc. • ..aka.. Hermaphrodites

18. Hermaphroditewith bothmaleandfemalereproductive organs

19. Hermaphrodite… from a woman…

20. to a man With both male and female reproductive organs

21. …so… does sex determine gender ? Biological sex.. refer to the biological characteristics that distinguish female from male … chromosomes, gonads, hormonal mix, genitalia Gender… refer to the social, psychological, and cultural definitions of woman / feminine and man / masculine … refers to expectations for men & women.. example…feminine woman... gentle, long hair, soft-spoken, pretty … masculine man… mascular, aggressive

22. Gender ….is dictated by Social Institutions We grow up learning the “masculine” or “feminine” ways of acting.. Family Peers Community School Media Church State but… not all females are feminine and not all males are masculine..

23. …so… does sex determine gender? Biological Sex Gender • physiological characteristics - chromosomes - external genitalia • biologically determined?? • “male” and “female” .. and the intersex… • socialized gender roles - attitudes - behaviors • socially constructed • “masculine” and “feminine” and those in between?

24. Gender… ways of acting… Is gender really just either masculine or feminine? Is gender unchanging or fixed ? Is it really based on biological sex? but… what the culture has divided into “masculine” or “feminine” ways of acting are simply human behaviors, which all people are capable of expressing… … men can be gentle and women can be goal-oriented…

25. Gender as Performance Gender… is a way of acting the body…“one executes it, institutes, produces and reproduces it, wears it, flaunts it, hides it, but always stylizes it in one way or another.” (Butler, 1989) … We ‘do’ Gender…we don’t ‘have’ one.. - gender is something that people ‘do’, it is an accomplishment, a performance… what we present to others, our actuations - it is not something we have.. it is not something inborn, or even internal.. When a woman acts coy or cute, she is‘doing’gender… When a man acts tough and insensitive, he is ‘doing’gender…

26. Dad wears skirt to support dress-wearing son Nil Pickert’s five-year-old son enjoyed wearing dresses when their family lived in West Berlin. Dad said “ I didn’t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts. He didn’t make friends in doing that already and after a lot of contemplation I had only one option left: To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy and dress in a skirt myself.” Father of the Year

27. Dad wears skirt to support dress-wearing son Dad says he’s trying to raise his son to believe he doesn’t have to conform to social expectations just because of his sex. “I’m not one of those pseudo-intellectual daddies that rambles on about studying gender justice, and then, as soon as the child is born, falls back into the comfortable and clichéd gender roles.”

28. Transgendered refers to anyone who blurs traditional gender lines (i.e. transexuals, transvestites, cross-dressers, drag queens, gender benders/blenders, androgynes, etc.)

29. Transgendered • DEAN SPADE • Raised in rural Virginia by a single working mother on welfare, Spade was exposed early to injustice, poverty, and sexism. When she was 14 and his mother died of lung cancer, she was left in the care of two sets of foster parents. • Spade was once arrested simply for trying to use a men's restroom in Grand Central Station. Even though she broke no law, he was held in jail for 23 hours. • "We have to walk through the world with a lot of fear and trepidation, not knowing when someone will victimize us,"he said.

30. Transexual - individuals who have chosen to live as a member of the sex other than their own birth sex some undergo physical changes, while others choose to retain the physical body of their birth sex

31. Transexual Mianne Bagger After living in England for 5 years, from the age of 3, Mianne's family moved back to Denmark where she, and her parents, started playing golf at Holstebro Golf Klub in 1974. Bagger moved to Australia in 1979. In 1995, she had sex reassignment surgery. In 1998, she returned to golf, as an amateur in Australia. She caused media stir in 2003, when she played the Australia Women's Open and attempted to join the Australian Ladies Professional Golf association (ALPG).

32. " she said. "I would not feel comfortable competing if I felt I had an advantage. From what I have experienced and from the medical research I have read, there is no advantage at all. All I want to do is carry myself with dignity.“ " There is a lot of misunderstanding about transexual women in society. I can't blame people for that. Why would people know anything about it? There is not much else I can expect, really. But if they want to talk about it, I am pretty open about my situation, explaining what goes on and what changes happen to the body. I would like people to have all the facts before they judge me."

33. One’s sex is not necessarily relevant to one’s gender performance.. Biological Sex…. is diverse… XX, XY, X, XXY.. Gender… can be any behavior…along the continuum… of feminine to masculine behaviors… Biological sex and gender…. (intersex, hermaphrodite, transgender, transexual) It’s okay for men to cry, to be gentle, loving and kind… in the same manner, it’s alright for women to speak their mind…

34. Sexual Orientation based on the sex (same or other) of the people to whom one is emotionally and sexually attracted to Straight…referring to heterosexual identity … people attracted to the opposite sex.. Gay…usually a term for men attracted to other men Lesbian…a term for women attracted to other women Bisexual…a person who is emotionally and sexually attracted to either male or female serially or simultaneously

35. To Parents who Discover their Child is Gay .... When you hit puberty and your hormones kick in you realize that you find the opposite sex attractive.. Its not different for gay kids, they hit puberty and realize they are attracted to the same sex.. .. It has nothing to do with choice.. You can choose to be a theif or glutton but you cannot alter the way you are made.. Your child has not chosen to feel this way and they just grow up gradually realizing they are different as their sexuality developed.. You’re not so different yourself when you find yourself attracted to the opposite sex..

36. To Parents who Discover their Child is Gay .. Science already proves that there is Genetic predisposition in the growing fetus which is subjected to a certain set of hormones in the womb. .. Ask any gay person and they will usually say they felt different to all the kids growing up which suggest that our sexuality is hardwired before birth.. .. They are good kids but they are made to feel dirty, unworthy and shameful about something they have no control over..

37. To Parents who Discover their Child is Gay .. Adolescence is such a difficult time as it is for everyone and yet - gay children have to face the added fear of rejection, perhaps even scorn and abuse.. .. Every Religion basically conveys loving one another, being good people and making your own life and other people better.. .. Remember the golden rule.. .. Take it to heart.. .. Live it!

38. Biological Sex – Gender – Sexual Orientation To whom one is attracted to.. …could be of the same sex or of the opposite sex… XX, XY, XXY, X, Intersex, Hermaphrodite Gender… can be any behavior…along the continuum… of feminine to masculine behaviors… malemasculineattracted to aman female feminine attracted to awoman malefeminine attracted toman/woman femalemasculine attracted to aman hermaphroditefemale-maleattracted to aman

39. When Cynthia was born, doctors took their best guess as to whether she was a girl or a boy, and a surgeon altered her ambiguous genitalia to match. Cynthia hasbreasts, a vagina,and the Y chromosomeof a man. She was born with the chromosome; thebreasts are largely the result ofhormone therapy and the vagina is partially a surgical creation.

40. Her father seemed to bear a burden of anxious guilt for years, she says. Her mother “was an emotional basket case about anything about me.” And the price they paid to protect her was to uproot themselves and leave both sides of the family behind in Chicago. “I love my dad and I’m very interested in keeping my relationship with him,” she says. “But there’s a chasm with my dad. He loves me and he wants to have a relationship, but there’s this space between us. It’s his shame, his embarrassment, his pain. It’s ‘Look what we did to you.’”

41. Intersex Four decades after being assigned to the female gender, Cynthia has entered a many-layered coming-out process. It entails gradually letting people at work understand that “there’s a reason I never have a time of the month when you see me take my purse into the ladies’ room with me.”

42. And then I fell in love… with…. Farrah.. My father was like.. ‘You’re a girl.. People will think you’re a weirdo.’ I was like.. ‘What do they have against Farrah?’ You realize now that I am an XY individual, so I was just being an average guy. But it looked to him like I was into something homoerotic. Andit was just my body telling me what I liked.”

43. Are they differentcompared to us?

44. So what if they are different???

45. So what if you are different?

46. INSIGHT, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine , familiar and exotic , new and old, side by side, Learning… by letting them speak to one another – Mary Catherine Bateson It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change..

47. At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. – Friedrich Nietzsche You are a unique being.. No one will ever be like You.. Just Stand Up! 

48. There is no need for temples, No need for complicated philosophy… Our own brain, our own heart – is our temple; The Philosophy is kindness…

50. Season Three of Korea’s Next Top Model features among its cast of aspiring fashionistas Choi Han-bit, who is transgender. Ee Choi, 26, studied traditional dance in college. With the support of Choi’s parents, she received gender-reassignment surgery six years ago and changed her name, which means “ray of sunshine.”