Explain why “gender panic” happens in response to transgender people, and what these issues tell us about the social construction of gender. Define gender panic and transgender in your answer
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. Gender panic refers to situations in which people react to ruptures in assumptions about gender assumed to be based in our biology by frantically reasserting the supposed “naturalness” of the male/female gender binary.
2. Transgender is an umbrella term that describes a variety of people, behaviors, and groups whose identities depart from normative gender ideals of masculinity or femininity.
3. Gender panic occurs in response to issues regarding transgender people because transgender people represent a challenge to traditional assumptions about gender.
4. These panics provide evidence for the social construction of gender, as sociologists are able to observe how the panics center around issues regarding gender-segregated spaces, and specifically around the idea of people with penises accessing women-only space. The evidence suggests that social construction of gender presents a situation in which the qualification for being considered a man is much lower than the qualification for being considered a woman.
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