Is there a consensus?Due to the diversity within the whole LGBTQIA community is can be challenging to find a universal value set or norms. The community Perhaps, the only statement that is true for anyone in the community is that their identity is not a choice.
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Disruptive Norms & Values
Sometimes, stereotypes appear as self selected norms that are reinforced through group conformity and peer monitoring. These may be assumed roles related to appearance, attire and behavior.
This occurs in the gay community when expectations can lead to negative self image, particularly, among gay men.
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Often times, transgender individuals encounter identity gatekeepers and gender expression policing, even within the community. Gatekeeping happens frequently enough that social media has developed the term truscum (pronounce true scum) to refer to such gatekeepers, along with the titles "transmedicalist" and "transfundamentalist." Divisive terms like tucute continually arise to describe opposite viewpoints. Such terms are normally build to support Straw Man arguments within the community (Jones, 2014).
Another fringe ideology that threatens the transgender community is trans exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) and those who hold these views are called TERFs or TWEFs, if their beliefs are only trans women exclusionary. According to them, to be included as a woman, one must be genetically female, i.e. have XX chromosomes and naturally occurring secondary sex characteristics. Their transphobic views, specifically regarding transgender women (read: trans misogyny), has pushed them to attempt to deny trans women basic rights when it comes to health care and areas considered to be women’s spaces (Jones, 2015).
References
Jones, K. (2014, August 02). Trans-Exclusionary radical feminism: What exactly is it, and why does it hurt? Huffington Post Gay Voices. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelsie-brynn-jones/transexclusionary-radical-terf_b_5632332.html
Jones, K. (2015, November 21). Outside the Binary: Where Gender, Race and Privilege Collide. Huffinton Post Gay Voices. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelsie-brynn-jones/gender-wars-were-gender-r_b_8342212.html
McGregor, L. (2015, March 20). Trans exclusionary feminism isn’t feminism at all. Whitty Bitches Magazine. Retrieved from http://wittybitches.com/2015/03/terf-wars/
Olsen, V. (2013). PurpleNoiZe. Retrieved from http://purplenoize.net/2013/11/the-terfs-are-not-feminists/
PEW Research Center. (2013, June 13). A survey of LGBT americans: Attitudes, experiences and values in changing times. Retrieved from http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/06/13/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans/
Ross, C. (2014, March 22). What is truscum? Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTzBVuwt0Dk
Jones, K. (2015, November 21). Outside the Binary: Where Gender, Race and Privilege Collide. Huffinton Post Gay Voices. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelsie-brynn-jones/gender-wars-were-gender-r_b_8342212.html
McGregor, L. (2015, March 20). Trans exclusionary feminism isn’t feminism at all. Whitty Bitches Magazine. Retrieved from http://wittybitches.com/2015/03/terf-wars/
Olsen, V. (2013). PurpleNoiZe. Retrieved from http://purplenoize.net/2013/11/the-terfs-are-not-feminists/
PEW Research Center. (2013, June 13). A survey of LGBT americans: Attitudes, experiences and values in changing times. Retrieved from http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/06/13/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans/
Ross, C. (2014, March 22). What is truscum? Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTzBVuwt0Dk