Differences Between The Terms “Gender” And “Sex”

I have a critical analysis assignment to be completed. Attached is a set of questions to be answered based on watching a video on ″The Underneath – Transgenders in The Bahamas″ on a Youtube link that will be provided below. You can obtain additional sources to support your answers, which is recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v＝zNU7NKVQ5rk&feature＝youtu.be

  1. From the point of view of the social scientist, what is the difference between the terms “gender” and “sex,” when they are applied to persons? [2]
  2. In reference to a person, what does the adjective “transgender” denote? [1]
  3. “Genderism is the ideology that there are and should be only two genders and that all or most aspects of one’s gender are inevitably tied to the gender assigned at birth…Transphobia or gender prejudice is the irrational fear, hatred or discriminatory treatment of people whose actual or perceived gender identity does not conform to society’s expectations.” (Beemyn and Rankin 89)
    1.  How does The Underneath: Transgenders in the Bahamas link religious beliefs in the Bahamas to genderism?
    2. State whether you agree that religious belief is the only contributor to transphobia in the Bahamas, explaining your reasoning [4]
  5. What arguments do transgender Bahamians use to justify their identities? [2]
  6. Some of the subjects interviewed explain their identities by saying that they are “trapped in the wrong body.”
    1. What implications does this way of explaining identity have for understanding transgender people?
    2. For the person trapped in the wrong body, what role does “gender reassignment” play? [2]

Documentary film has become a particularly important form for the production and circulation of knowledge…about gender nonconforming people…If we can group these documentaries as a genre, the generic conventions pivot on an affective axis in which the triumph of hope over despair forms the most significant narrative arc. Documentary films about gender-nonconforming subjects tend to mobilize the conventions of ethnographic realism, which work to exoticize documentary subjects as outsiders while simultaneously rendering them recognizable for a mainstream audience. (Azuira 124)

  1. In the choice of the stories it tells or information it reveals or images it displays, how is The Underneath producing a narrative in which Bahamian trans-people are shown to experience the “triumph of hope over despair”? [4]
  2. Documentaries about transgender people are often structured to assure viewers that transgender people will experience the “triumph of hope over despair”?
    1. Why do you think this structure is prevalent in documentaries?
    2.  How might this structural convention be a desirable thing for transgender people?
    3. How might this structural convention be an undesirable thing for transgender people?  [6][PTO]
  4. Discuss how The Underneath presents Bahamian trans people as
    1.  exotic[1] outsiders
    2.  familiar and relatable for a mainstream cisgender [2]audience. [4]

Member of Parliament Leslie Miller stated that transgender Bahamians should be exiled to a cay: “These transgender, or whatever you call them, is against the will of God so why would we as a people want to go against the will of God to have these people say what they want from what they don’t want. You are either a man or a woman…If God sent you here to repopulate the world for us to live in society in harmony and in peace, (why) you have people who don’t want to produce any babies and who don’t have the capacity to produce children? What purpose do they serve here on this earth? Tell me what purpose they serve? Man can’t make babies with man (and) woman can’t make baby with woman. What purpose (do) they serve? So what do we do? Just give them some place where they could go and (be) safe. Everybody make a contribution (to) put them on a nice island and just play with each other for the rest of their lives if that’s what they want to do. Because they ain’t going to make babies. So soon they’ll die. You got to be able to produce to have the next generation so that will be the last generation of them. I will be the first one to make a contribution to them. I’ll give them $1,000 right now. Build them a nice beautiful setting on a nice cay and say this is Eden right there and they go right there. To us it would be Sodom and Gomorrah, but to them it would be Eden. Put them in Eden with beautiful flowers and beautify the place. This has got to stop. When is enough, enough, man?”

  1. Critique the logic of Miller’s statement. How does Miller’s statement give deeper insight into Bahamian opposition to transgender Bahamians and their attempt to gain equal rights? [5]

[1]  Outlandish, barbarous, strange, uncouth. Also, having the attraction of the strange or foreign, glamorous. [1590s, “belonging to another country,” from Middle French exotique (16c.) and directly from Latin exoticus, from Greek exotikos “foreign,” literally “from the outside,” from exo “outside” (see exo-). Sense of “unusual, strange” in English first recorded 1620s, from notion of “alien, outlandish.”]

[2]  Designating a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds to his or her sex at birth; of or relating to such persons. Contrasted with transgender.

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