Bill Kurtis investigates the growing movement that focuses on the rights of transgendered people. Kurtis’ report examines some of the legal and social problems transgendered people face, and their efforts to bring their lifestyle out to the open much as in the same manner as the gay liberation movement. The lifestyles of transgendered people are featured, and the documentary illustrates the emotional anguish and the civic limitations, which the Transgendered Revolution is seeking to eliminate. Transgender Revolution would be useful for classes on Sexuality, Science and Medicine, Social Movements, and Civics. It is appropriate for high school and college.

Transgendered Revolution

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1. What does transgendered mean? How would you define a transgendered person? Could you tell if a person is transgendered by their appearance?

2. How do you define men and women? How does our society define men and women? Are the categories of men and women biological or social?

3. Transgendered people face discrimination and hostility. Why is a transgendered lifestyle one of the lease acceptable lifestyles in our society?

4. How do people achieve a transgendered body?

5. Transgendered people face many obstacles in their everyday life. What are some of the obstacles transgendered people face?

6. What are some of the ways in which some transgendered people discover that they want to change their sex assignment?

7. How have transgendered people fought the prejudice and oppression they face?

8. Why do some transgendered people choose sex reassignment while others do not?

9. Why do many surgically transgendered people consider their surgery a “rebirth?”

1. Compare the Transgendered Revolution with other social and civil rights movements of the twentieth century.