| Summary: | 碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 人類性學研究所 === 103 === “Gender” is an echo to the construction of a life style and cognition, involving both collective cognition and personal cognition, as an individual interacts with his or her existing environment and time being in subtle ways. “Gender diversity” very deed exists in our complex multicultural and multi-ethnic societies, including, for instance, men with femininities, women with masculinities, homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender people and transsexuals, cross-dressers, etc. The present study utilizes qualitative methodological approach, involving inductive analysis to categorize the narrative contents after in-depth interviews with transgender people. Findings from this study are: Interactions and relationships with siblings may profoundly impact the transgender person’s self exploration, thus positively or negatively influence the gender identity process. The transgender person may explicit personal inner gender identity through manifestation of cross-dressing and cross-gender expression. The urge to transsexual desire is persistent even if restricted by the current related law and policies for sex reassignment surgery (SRS). They look forward to seeing government loosen up on the rules. Willingness to come out into the open and whom to come out to are impacted diversely by the person’s positions within the surroundings, social-political atmosphere, and different eras. The transgender person empowers strengths via personal inner exploration, and chooses a uni-gender to present as to conform in public perceptions. The transgender person wishes to learn knowledge and skills to facilitate in manifesting and carrying on as the desired gender, as ways to seek congruency between the preferable identified gender and inherent biological sex. Being able to resist oppressive, critical and denigrating attitudes from relatives, peers and workplace, the transgender person may therefore be capable of further voicing out and fighting for the rights for the transgender populations. Restricted by dominant ideologies and environmental facilities, the transgender populations experience more challenges in achieving homeostasis between the desired gender and the designated biological sex.
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