Trans-forming our thoughts on gender | Katina Sawyer | TEDxVillanovaU

Gender is the primary organizing category that individuals utilize in society today. However, because of the prevalence of normative masculine and feminine gender expression, these expression have become problematically linked with biological narratives. Transgender individuals highlight that there is more natural variability in preference for gender expression than is currently normalized within society. This talk will highlight the experiences of transgender individuals as a way to shed light on a pressing topic which requires a greater amount of attention - the need for greater freedom of gender expression - and will provide guidelines for how to become a true transgender ally.
Dr. Katina Sawyer is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, within the Graduate Programs in Human Resource Development at Villanova University. She holds a dual-PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Women’s Studies from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Sawyer has published and presented her research on diversity in the workplace, as well as negative workplace behaviors, in many peer-reviewed outlets and at conferences internationally. She spends much of her time volunteering, by advocating for LGBT rights, educating inner city youth, providing career coaching to women in crisis, and working with and advocating for the rights of victims of human trafficking.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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  • @jensenlukematar
    @jensenlukematar6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Katina. This is an amazingly powerful speech. I'm disappointed that your views, likes, and comments are not greater than they are. This is so very deserving. Thank you for being a passionate ally.

  • @sandybeach7938
    @sandybeach79385 жыл бұрын

    I am a transitioning woman and this was an awesome presentation. I need to watch it again because I started crying half way through. I have self harmed and attempted suicide. It has been along difficult life who would choose this path? NO ONE! The message from this video is about love and acceptance. Unconditional Love.

  • @UFBMusic

    @UFBMusic

    4 жыл бұрын

    This TED talk must have been double booked with an onion cutting convention...

  • @nicoledirks9875
    @nicoledirks98753 жыл бұрын

    Have studies been done on children in places like Africa where there is no nursery decked out in pink or blue, and where the babies aren't even wearing clothes?

  • @kateoasmr

    @kateoasmr

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @NoticeFeelBreathe
    @NoticeFeelBreathe2 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing. Thank you for your passion and commitment. I've been on the fence questioning how "out" I should be... and with the comment you made about how KNOWING someone who is trans changes how accepting people feel of trans folks I realized maybe THAT'S what I need to feel like it's worth it to be out.

  • @wherethecrowflies1965
    @wherethecrowflies19655 жыл бұрын

    The story at the end made me want to cry...... I know massively what it's like to be the outsider and shunned by others.... I'm am who I am and have spent years just wanting to be accepted for that.... excellent Ted talk

  • @wandashirkey9654
    @wandashirkey96545 жыл бұрын

    What a great speech. As a MTF the more information we get out the better. Thank you so much Katina.

  • @pm8157
    @pm81572 жыл бұрын

    This was amazing! I teared up at many parts of your talk. One of the resources for an abnormal psych class I am in was a different Ted Talk. I branched out as I did not find that resource helpful to our discussion post. I am thrilled that I came across this! You're doing great things.

  • @saraannefay2196
    @saraannefay21966 жыл бұрын

    wonderful....especially the example/story at the end.......

  • @robertnickol9598
    @robertnickol95982 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou for pointing our that courage is critical

  • @benwinch5338
    @benwinch5338 Жыл бұрын

    I would like this 1000 times if I could. Thank you so much

  • @nyxdamonbogettiperez2161
    @nyxdamonbogettiperez21615 жыл бұрын

    This was amazing. I am so grateful for your courage in standing up for us and our right not just to exist but to be accepted, to be loved.

  • @avaturner5056
    @avaturner50566 жыл бұрын

    This is really wonderful. Thank you.

  • @destineebarnett4846
    @destineebarnett48465 жыл бұрын

    This is a fantastic speech, thank you!!

  • @jadengrace_
    @jadengrace_3 жыл бұрын

    Crying at work. This was so powerful.

  • @DC-ox2zv
    @DC-ox2zv Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding presentation ! Thank you so much…

  • @Chrisoula17
    @Chrisoula175 жыл бұрын

    I have always liked pretty dresses and jewelry. I was dressed in dresses and I love dresses and cute stuff. I have always been a female.I am a biological female and I cannot see myself as a male. I have never felt differently. I can see what she is saying though. If I had children I would let them choose their toys and clothes.

  • @earlolson4850
    @earlolson48506 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful talk, i loved it so much i am going to listen to it again right now.

  • @JanMWilson
    @JanMWilson6 жыл бұрын

    Great Ted Talk Katina, thank you.

  • @EternalDensity
    @EternalDensity2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @aishashaw5885
    @aishashaw5885 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you 😊

  • @awesomeianTV
    @awesomeianTV4 жыл бұрын

    I love this talk, but wtf was that shot at 13:09 we never even got that close to Katina, lol I thought he was gonna hurt me

  • @Coolerdbz69
    @Coolerdbz694 жыл бұрын

    I grew up as a massive tomboy and I still am do I wasn't forced down the road of being super feminine

  • @jadams736
    @jadams736 Жыл бұрын

    You would be surprised how many trans people you meet every day I'm trans and I have met a lot of people in my life but I have to be fake with society just to survive life be kind to others.

  • @sevinmonroe9311
    @sevinmonroe93113 жыл бұрын

    I can't imagine outing myself to all of my family. My relationships with them aren't perfect but I want to keep what I have. This is a major source of conflict for me.

  • @Raven_Fable
    @Raven_Fable11 ай бұрын

    ❤🎉gender is a spectrum

  • @kixq3379
    @kixq33793 жыл бұрын

    Eating my breakfast and crying at the same time

  • @ronaldcox7626
    @ronaldcox7626 Жыл бұрын

    Thank u. What a dream to go to a party in a beautiful dress. For what it's worth, I'm a third gen combat vet who is a transwoman.

  • @NotABushFan1
    @NotABushFan16 жыл бұрын

    As a senior trans male to female and working with the general public within the retail market I am addressed as Sir a lot of the time while I have earrings on, long hair, a female blouse on, using a soft voice and a bra on, not a DD but a smaller A or B cup bras. Why, because I work in the electrical area of a big box retail store. Most of the ones that work in the area are men, if I was a cashier​ I question if it would be an issue.

  • @Showbizboy

    @Showbizboy

    5 жыл бұрын

    AnOpenThought some men like dressing up in women’s clothes so how would they know necessarily?

  • @cassandrajoiner9933

    @cassandrajoiner9933

    4 жыл бұрын

    I guess you don't pass. Sorry honey.

  • @davidtietje7193

    @davidtietje7193

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can only be who you are and not expect Anyone to accept you.

  • @zariahnongrata2257
    @zariahnongrata22578 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many transphobic comments this video will rack up...

  • @apollicino1705

    @apollicino1705

    5 жыл бұрын

    any can be reported as hate speech or harassment :)

  • @georgeanthony4834

    @georgeanthony4834

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@apollicino1705 ...or fact? No one likes a snitch.

  • @Showbizboy

    @Showbizboy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Amy Pollicino what is a transphobic comment? Remembering of course that transphobic means irrational fear of....

  • @animeentranced1130

    @animeentranced1130

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Showbizboy That's not what transphobic means you disingenuous person. Transphobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes, feelings or actions that can include fear, aversion, hatred, violence, anger, or discomfort felt *or expressed*

  • @Showbizboy

    @Showbizboy

    4 жыл бұрын

    AnimeEnTranced That's why there's dots at the end of the comment.

  • @devashreekisnadwala7171
    @devashreekisnadwala71715 жыл бұрын

    Whoa!! She needs to slow down her talking speed! She just keeps going on and on without even a natural pause!!

  • @felixaddison3266

    @felixaddison3266

    5 жыл бұрын

    Try listening to Ben Shapiro.

  • @astavie2920

    @astavie2920

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@felixaddison3266 I'd rather not

  • @adriennemulderdoyle
    @adriennemulderdoyle5 ай бұрын

    🙄🙄🙄

  • @1Skeptik1
    @1Skeptik12 жыл бұрын

    Several hundred Americans believe they are Jesus the Christ. What of them?

  • @robbiedeewoody2921
    @robbiedeewoody29215 жыл бұрын

    I disagree with her on our gender. We are born with a gender identity no matter if it is clearly male or female related, or somewhere inbetween. But HOW we express our gender IS condiotioned.

  • @mlasko74
    @mlasko745 жыл бұрын

    Wtf

  • @gertrudelagnese6668
    @gertrudelagnese66688 жыл бұрын

    It's born in us and then realized through experience and examples. Ignoring biology is ignorant.

  • @nokoolaid

    @nokoolaid

    8 жыл бұрын

    +catwalk33 Of course it's biology. How the brain is "wired" happens during development. That's biology.

  • @nokoolaid

    @nokoolaid

    8 жыл бұрын

    +catwalk33 Whereas hermaphrodism is a developmental problem with regards to physical expression. I would bet it extends to brain expression too, but being trans is a brain development issue.

  • @nokoolaid

    @nokoolaid

    8 жыл бұрын

    +catwalk33 You're incoherent. Brain sex is biology and we're born with it.

  • @nokoolaid

    @nokoolaid

    8 жыл бұрын

    +catwalk33 And it wouldn't be brain surgeons to find this. Pathologists/histologists/psychobiologists. They'd use tools like an fMRI and/or autopsy.

  • @nokoolaid

    @nokoolaid

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** Rubbish in terms of identity.

  • @hedgemist691
    @hedgemist6916 жыл бұрын

    I am female (born with the right female parts). I imagined myself playing with a toy train, short hair and wearing shorts. I love being female. No one 'decided' for me what my gender was - I am what I am - a woman. Does this woman ever come up for air? God, it's frantic.

  • @LeadsTheFallen
    @LeadsTheFallen5 жыл бұрын

    If a child was born in the woods and raised by wolves, that child will grow up thinking it's also a wolf

  • @PungiFungi

    @PungiFungi

    5 жыл бұрын

    Indeed, what goes on in your mind sometimes have absolutely nothing to do with physical and genetic reality.

  • @Showbizboy

    @Showbizboy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Leads The Fallen Vlogs Wouldn’t make it a wolf though. If I have surgery on my eyes to make me look oriental it won’t make me Asian.

  • @randommagenta1476

    @randommagenta1476

    6 ай бұрын

    Dr. Doofenshmirtz

  • @dukeriluo
    @dukeriluo4 жыл бұрын

    Gender is neurological not a social construct.

  • @Tall-Cool-Drink
    @Tall-Cool-Drink5 жыл бұрын

    This is called brain-washing.

  • @robbiedeewoody2921

    @robbiedeewoody2921

    5 жыл бұрын

    Actually, that's what our has always been if you really think about it.

  • @DarknessIsThePath
    @DarknessIsThePath2 жыл бұрын

    This is all TedTalks are now, gender gender gender, there are far more important things in the world than wasting time on gender 24/7.

  • @deannacocker9572

    @deannacocker9572

    Жыл бұрын

    Says who? You? And if you're also not interested in cancer patient care, does that also become a less than worthy topic to occupy your precious few brain cells? Have another beer while you consider your choices in life...💁🏼‍♀️

  • @DarknessIsThePath

    @DarknessIsThePath

    Жыл бұрын

    @@deannacocker9572 Cancer >>>>>>>>>> Gender, if you are going against me then perhaps don't use examples which I directly stated were far more important, such as cancer, try again 🤷🏽‍♂️ And the majority agrees, both left and right, in which I belong to neither today, I used to be left-leaning until they became just as delusional with gender ideology just like the right is with their precious "God".

  • @hjjjjk8399
    @hjjjjk8399 Жыл бұрын

    Men are women are different. Point blank. If you watch children you see the differences.

  • @edp2260
    @edp22606 жыл бұрын

    Oh yea, my kids talk and think the way I want them to (not really!) Children are like sponges? Have you ever had kids, Lady? I doubt it somehow.

  • @gardtexas603
    @gardtexas6032 жыл бұрын

    Utter rubbish, don't understand the likes.

  • @elibrod9981
    @elibrod99815 жыл бұрын

    has she heard of Spanx?

  • @suzannel2414

    @suzannel2414

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol 😁

  • @kenhankin5073
    @kenhankin50732 жыл бұрын

    nonsense

  • @saneperson59
    @saneperson594 жыл бұрын

    We do need to change the way many people think about gender. There are only 2, it's not interchangeable, and many people think there are more which is crazy!

  • @cassandrajoiner9933

    @cassandrajoiner9933

    4 жыл бұрын

    There are 3. Male, Female, Androgynous. I think many people are afraid to think about androgynous people being a thing. Screw non-binary though, these are androgynous people.

  • @arslibri9957
    @arslibri99574 жыл бұрын

    What a BS! New ideology.

  • @aneeya9387

    @aneeya9387

    3 жыл бұрын

    Live your damn life and let us live ours

  • @arslibri9957

    @arslibri9957

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aneeya9387 Well, you are living your damn life. Don't you? And everybody has to shut up because your feeling will get hurt? Learn to live with it.

  • @graemeroberts3069

    @graemeroberts3069

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@arslibri9957 Do you think you have the right to perpetuate hurt feelings? The old ideology was cruel. The new ideology is kinder - accept it (please?)

  • @arslibri9957

    @arslibri9957

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Aneeya M @ Graeme Roberts I am sorry to disappoint you but my views are not based on hurt feelings. I do not form my thoughts based on feelings as the new omnipresent ideology does. I don't give a damn about your hurt feelings since "feelings" is the only category and argument you use. And how is the new ideology kinder? Can you explain without referring to feelings? Feeling is not an intellectual category but a whimsy used by twisted ideology.

  • @nicoledirks9875
    @nicoledirks98753 жыл бұрын

    Genesis 1:27, Romans 1:21-27

  • @kriskabin

    @kriskabin

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's help to get people like you out of cults.

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