Sunday, October 16, 2011
Blogging Assignment Week 9
This article discusses the two new laws signed by California Governor Jerry Brown. The Gender Nondiscrimination Act allows individuals to express their gender and protects it at work, school, housing, and public accommodations. It makes gender include gender identity which is how an individual sees them self and gender expression, how others see them. The second law is The Vital Statistics Modernization Act helps transgenders to change the sex on their birth certificate. These laws help with preventing discrimination which was previously not controlled because of the confusing laws which made people unaware of there protections by the law. This is great progress and hopefully it will persuade society to also progress their ideologies and beliefs.
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This post is not directly related to this weeks readings, but it is directed toward masculinity and femininity. As some males and females devolve from the societal construction of gender and sex roles through choosing to be like social and natural construction of the opposite sex, they still choose a gender/sex role that in itself is a social construction. In other words because we have defined what sex and gender roles are it is unnatural to say you feel or where born opposite of what model society has created for you.
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I agree that these new laws are a huge step in the right direction for creating an equal and safe state for all people. However, it is a little bit upsetting that it has taken so long for laws like those described to be created and signed. What is even worse is that these were not laws for the entire nation. As a culture and society, it is hard to progress and become more tolerant if different parts of the nation refuse to move forward with states like California. I am hopeful but doubtful that the rest of the nation will follow suit on these laws.
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