Theory

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female, or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice, or body characteristic (American Psychological Association Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and transgender concerns(CLGBTC), Vic Munoz, EdD, Kevin Nadal, PhD, 2014). People who identify as transgender are usually people who are born with typical male or female anatomies but feel as they have been born into the “wrong body”. For example, a person who identifies as transgender may have typical female anatomy but feel like a male and seek to become male by taking hormones.

The word “queer” in queer theory has some of these connotations, particularly its alignment with ideas about homosexuality. Queer theory is a brand-new branch of study or theoretical speculation; it has only been named as an area since about 1991. It grew out of gay/lesbian studies, a discipline which itself is very new, exiting in any kind of organized form only since about the mid-1980s. Gay/lesbian studies, in turn, grew out of feminist studies and feminist theory (Dr. Katherine D. Harris, 2005). According to our research topic, we apply this theory to emerged from gay/lesbian studies attention to the social construction of categories of normative and deviant sexual behaviour. This is because this particular theory is a set of ideas based around the idea that identities are not fixed and do not determine who we are and this theory also describes the school of thought that deals with sexual identity, human sexuality,