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Abstract
The reason for this report, the individual’s journey of transitioning towards his or
her desired gender rising issues will be looking in to why transgender teens and
adults take their own lives and reason or the causes and why.
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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 2
2.1 The Purpose Of This Report....................................................................... 2
2.2 Issues To Be Discussed And Their Significance ..................................... 2
3 Research Methods ............................................................................................. 2
4 QUESTIONS........................................................................................................ 2
4.1 Questionable Issues ................................................................................... 3
5 POINTS OF VIEW ............................................................................................... 4
6 ASSUMPTIONS .................................................................................................. 5
7 INFERENCES...................................................................................................... 5
8 CONCEPTS ......................................................................................................... 5
8.1 The definition of transgender..................................................................... 5
8.2 The laws that each person has rights. ...................................................... 6
9 IMPLICATIONS ................................................................................................... 7
10 Treatments ...................................................................................................... 8
10.1 Gender reassignment surgery ................................................................ 8
10.2 Hormone Injections ................................................................................. 9
10.3 Hormone pills ........................................................................................... 9
11 Transition Completed................................................................................... 11
11.1 Male to Female ....................................................................................... 11
11.2 Female to Male ....................................................................................... 11
12 Conclusion .................................................................................................... 12
13 References .................................................................................................... 13
13.1 Other Related Sources .......................................................................... 13
14 Appendices ................................................................................................... 13
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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2 INTRODUCTION
2.1 THE PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT
The purpose of this report is to prevent further psychological depression by having
treatments, which may include surgery.
Teenage and adult trans genders taking their own lives? One percentage is caused
from being bullied, and the other percentage is caused by being on the surgical
waiting list.
3 RESEARCH METHODS
Literature in Google scholar, online journals, essays, online journals, websites and
Doctors findings.
4 QUESTIONS
What hormone treatments the individual will receive?
What is transgender?
They will receive all information that is relevant to his or her needs.
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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having Behaviour that has been identified as Suicidal and committing Suicide
internationally. In India, thirty one percent have taken their life, compared to fifty
percent have attempted suicide before turning the age of twenty. (Virupaksha,
March 2017 article -Why transgender youth suicide rates in New Zealand are so
individual's equals rights to express their gender identity in any shape or form
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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5 POINTS OF VIEW
The pros and cons of other people’s Points of view.
They see themselves as the true gender, the opposite to the gender he or she
Someone in my class (can not be named due to privacy laws) who is transgender
male, (or trans-male, for short) in his point of view he stressed to me the word
‘Transgender’ is offensive and should not used. So, in his case, I can only assume
And only the term Gender Dysphoria (formerly- Gender Identity Disorder) should be
allowed.
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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6 ASSUMPTIONS
The transgender individual’s family and friend’s acceptance.
What will be the end results?
7 INFERENCES
Having further psychological depression if the individual transgender does not
The only Inferences will be from people and religious groups who are against
such matters.
8 CONCEPTS
8.1 THE DEFINITION OF TRANSGENDER.
In the NEW YORK (Reuters) Article ‘Born This Way? Researchers Investigate the
Science of Gender Identity’ By Daniel Trotta, the reporter has stated geneticists
within a group of five research institutions in five countries, studying a most important
research project an attempt to unravel gender identity by investigating a transgender
individual’s DNA for signs whether or not transgender people really are "Born that
way". (Trotta, 2017)
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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The Human Rights Commission report that was published in January 2008
titled To Be Who I am (Maori- Kia noho au ki tōku anō ao) the report is an inquiry
about transgender persons who have experienced discrimination
The Inquiry was conducted under Section 5(2) (h) of the Human Rights Act
1993 by which the Commission may:
“inquire generally into any matter, including any enactment or law, or any
practice, or any procedure, whether governmental or non-governmental, if it
appears to the Commission that the matter involves, or may involve, the
infringement of human rights”.
Terms of Reference
(c) The barriers faced by transgender people when attempting to gain full
legal recognition of their gender status.
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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The data for the report was composed from many Gender Dysphoria people from
different ages, the youngest aged eleven and the oldest aged late seventies, and
(not excluding) from all walks of life. Such as tradespeople, managers, sew workers,
health professionals and many other occupations. Some gender dysphoria people
gender queer people. While others just wanted to be preferred as a man or woman.
9 IMPLICATIONS
A person’s gender by birth implication of immediate changes to transition to their
From an early childhood, that young person’s idea of his or her true gender
based on external and internal factors. If that person was born female, but has
more male chromosomes, this means she is a tomboy, and she’s feels she
transmasculine. The same also applies to a baby born who has female
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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10 TREATMENTS
10.1 GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERY
During my research of my topic report, I discovered from NZ Government of Heath
website - www.health.govt.nz. Information about Gender reassignment surgery
which clearly states, there are four phases the individual must go through after he or
she has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, his or her readiness for the
operation.
Both Phase one and two can be performed at the same time during transitioning.
This may include other surgeries such as breast and hip Enhancement/Removal
which are achievable at almost any local cosmetic surgery clinic.
The NZ Ministry of Health only fund three surgeries every year (And yet there are
one hundred people on the waiting list each year) but for the gender reassignment
surgery now gets referred to overseas public hospital like in Thailand by your general
practitioner (Doctor) or and specialists, but this may take longer to get a referral.
compared with receiving plastic surgery from private hospitals & specialists are or
can be very expensive, but you will receive the same care and treatment a lot
sooner.
Adam Dudding mentioned in his (2014) stuff news article Dr Peter Walker aged 72
after 22 years was New Zealand’s only gender reassignment surgeon, retired in
2014. (Dudding, 2014)
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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According to an ABC News Article ‘Why some Transgender Woman who wish to
transition are using Black Market Drugs’ dated 10th May 2016 By Olivia Smith and
Justine Quart. Smith & Quart (2016) story is about one such person a 18 year old
trans-woman named Ivana Black, who travelled one hundred miles to sit on a couch
in a strangers home of a woman who lived there, trusting and putting her life in the
strangers hands, Quart waiting for her shot which she paid USD$40. Advance it is
one of many risks someone like Ivana Black will take of getting an illness like HIV,
Ivana Black now lives as a woman today. (Smith & Quart, 2016)
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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Female to Male
Testosterone (pictured) and others are not subscribed like muscle enhancers/
development.
4. Figure 4 Testosterone
https://www.supplements.co.nz/products/balance-tribulus-20-000-60caps
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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11 TRANSITION COMPLETED
11.1 MALE TO FEMALE
Name: Sona Avedian. A former US Marine named Matthew
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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12 CONCLUSION
My conclusion is what all transgender peoples journey, What type of treatments they
receive what they put up with such as being bulled, discrimination to taking his or her
own life, also other reasons or the causes such as delays the rising issues will be
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256
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13 REFERENCES
DUDDING, A. (2014, October 26). NZ's only sex change surgeon retires. Retrieved
November 02, 2017, from http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/10664572/NZs-only-
sex-change-surgeon-retires
Trotta, D. (2017) Born This Way? Researchers Explore the Science of Gender
Identity. US News, https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2017-08-03/born-
this-way-researchers-explore-the-science-of-gender-identity
Virupaksha, H. G., Muralidhar, D., & Ramakrishna, J. (2016). Suicide and Suicidal
Behavior among Transgender Persons. Indian Journal of Psychological
Medicine, 38(6), 505–509. http://doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.194908
14 APPENDICES
Arts 210 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. Assignment One Gender Identity Report, Edenz Collage, Auckland Campus, NZ.
P J A Sullivan. student id:614256