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You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Reality: Most bisexuals are primarily attracted to either men or women, but do not deny the lesser attraction, whether or not they act on it.
Some bisexuals are never sexual with women, or men, or either. Bisexuality is about dreams and desires and capacities as much as it is about acts. Bisexuals are people who can have lovers of either sex, not people who must have lovers of both sexes. Some bisexual people may have concurrent lovers, but bisexuals do not need to be with both sexes in order to feel fulfilled. Myth: Bisexuals are promiscuous hypersexual swingers who are attracted to every woman and man they meet.
Bisexuals cannot be monogamous, nor can they or live in traditional committed relationships. They could never be celibate. Reality: Bisexual people have a range of sexual behaviors. Like lesbians, gays or heterosexuals, some have multiple partners, some have one partner, some go through periods without any partners.
Promiscuity is no more prevalent in the bisexual population than in other groups of people. They pass as heterosexual to avoid trouble and maintain heterosexual privilege. Reality: Obviously there are bisexuals who pass as heterosexual to avoid trouble. There are also many lesbians and gays who do this.
Myth: Bisexuals get the best of both worlds and a doubled chance for a date on Saturday night. The community sometimes needs to use these labels for political reasons and to increase their visibility.
Their sexual esteem is facilitated by acknowledging and accepting the differences and seeing the beauty in diversity. Adapted from: Wall, Vernon A. Evans eds. American College Personal Association. Transgender people are often marginalized and ignored in both gay and straight communities.
Ignorance and hatred keep many transgendered people from speaking out or identifying themselves, which obscures them further. Like gay and lesbian people, many transgendered people cannot be picked out of a crowd just by the way they look and blend into the local communities. Just remember, there are at least a handful of transgendered people in every community and institution. You might very well sit next to a transgender person at school or at the office and not realize it.
Transgendered people are people just like you, but they have life experiences and struggles that differ from most non-transgendered people, which should be acknowledged and understood. The following stories are examples of transphobia that have happened to acquaintances of the author of this article, who also happens to be a member of the WPI community.
The names of people in these examples have been changed in all but the last. While reading or hearing these stories please think about your classmates, housemates, loved ones, and family members. Think about how such incidents could affect you personally or the members of the community around you. Mike is a transgendered man who is in the midst of medical transition and is gender-ambiguous looking. The nurses and doctor in the emergency room noticeably back away from him and avoid physical contact, despite his serious medical problem.
After hours of waiting on a gurney in an isolated room, no tests or exams are performed and he is escorted to the parking lot. He is sent home bleeding and in great pain without any treatment. Tyler is a transgender-identified high school student who presents hirself as gender ambiguous despite the cruel treatment ze receives by classmates. At a gathering after school, some male students beat hir to the ground and gang rape hir. Other students notice the commotion and gather around to laugh and point, but not to help their peer.
Ukea and Stephanie were both born biologically male, but identify as and live as women. They are best friends and stick by one another in the face of the taunts and harassment they receive from neighbors. Both girls were shot at least ten times while sitting at a stop light.
It is believed that their murders were motivated by hate. By educating yourself and becoming an ally to transgender people, you can combat ignorance and hatred and help prevent the occurrence of these atrocities. Transphobia is the fear or hatred of transgender people. It can be found in forms ranging from jokes to violence to simply not acknowledging that transgender people exist.
Transphobia hurts transpeople first and foremost. It also sends a message out to the population at large that anyone who tries on any expression or identity that does not conform to societal expectations of their gender will be ridiculed, silenced, economically marginalized, assaulted, or even killed. It's accomplishments are impressive: O'Neil posted a Fox New Channel poll which asked the right wing network's viewers to weigh in on California Judge Vaughn Walker's overturning of Prop 8, the gay marriage ban.
Thanks largely to votes from Wipeout members, the poll now stands at 72 percent in favor of the judge's decision. Wipeout members have also joined in a petition drive to save the life of a gay man in Iran. O'Neil most recently urged European members to attend an anti-gay bashing rally in Amsterdam. On a lighter note, Wipeout members contribute their own artwork and videos to the page.
Alex Peavy, who, at 13, is the group's youngest member, has built up quite a fan following with her many rainbow colored drawings which promote love and tolerance among LGBTs and all peoples.
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