Queer Theory Paper

The bulk of this paper will be about queer theory and transgender studies. It will talk about the struggles that people who identify as transgender face every day while attending school or even just out in society. Most of these struggles are caused by other people not being accepting of what this person identifies as. It will go into detail about a few different topics in that happen in schools such as policy, bathroom use, and bullying. Then it will end with a conclusion that discusses how this paper is connected to the writers own life. Introduction

This paper will be discussing queer theory and it’s many, in depth, aspects. Although this paper could include many of the interesting topics in queer theory the main focus will be on transgender …show more content…
So, with that, the question is, what exactly is queer theory? There is no set-in stone definition as to what queer theory is. If you asked a group of people, individually, they would most likely all give different answers as to what they thought queer theory was to them. Since it is such a broad and diverse topic it can be interpreted in a various amount of ways and still fit under the title queer theory. As an easy, brief definition of queer theory it is the critical analysis of the social construct of sexuality, particularly the ideas of sexual binary and essentialism. (Grossman, 2017). To help understand that a little better, queer simply defined is differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal. (Merriam-Webster, 2017) This term is currently being reclaimed by gay men, lesbian women, transgender people, etc. which was previously as a slang term meant to be harmful to the person it was used towards. As gay marriage and other related aspects have become more accepted in the United States queer theory has become more prevalent more people are interested in this particular type of study and the more important it is to familiarize oneself with it because it is only going to continue to grow and become more common to come in contact with on a daily …show more content…
There was a study conducted on seven thousand three hundred and seventy-six seventh and eighth graders, fifty-point seven percent of the seven thousand three hundred and seventy-six were female and forty-nine -point three were males. Seventy-two-point seven percent White, seven-point-seven Biracial, six-point-nice percent Black, five-point-two percent Asian, three-point-seven percent Hispanic, and two-point-two percent reported “other”. Those who identify as transgender reported higher levels of bullying, homophobic victimization, and other negative happening than heterosexual identifying people. Even more so were children who were questioning their sexuality. There reported back the highest amount of everything from bullying to the most drug use to suicidal thoughts. They reported back higher even than the children who were identifying as gay, lesbian, or transgender. Schools who actively try to deter transgender discrimination and bullying tend to be able to have the result of a "brighter ending" than schools that just look past all the bullying of people who identify differently than them. (Birkett, M., Espelage, D. L., & Koenig, B.,

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