Institutional Narratives of (Trans)gender

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What are the narratives we tell about our gender? What are the narratives that various institutions?medical, psychological, psychiatric, and other specialists?tell about our gender? How do those narratives get used to form ideas about what is ?normal? or ?acceptable? And what is the effect of these narratives on a global scale? In this class, we will strive to address all of these questions as well as examine our own presumptions about our gender, class, race and other identities?and how these presumptions affect our we see and treat others.