Senin, 21 Mei 2012

Personal Concept of Transsexual Individual ( The case study of IWAMA (Ikatan Waria ______________) 119


The majority personal behaviors are determined by our concept or can be
said that personal behavior will be appropriate with personal ways in considering
and judging themselves. A basic component of individual concept is sex role
identity which constitutes conceptualism of masculinity and feminism : how the
person can adapt with beliefs which are approved by public deal with
characteristics appropriate for man and women (Burns, 1993). Transsexual is
person with the physic as man but he has desire to be woman so in his interaction
with the environment, transsexual shows attitude and behavior which are not
appropriate with his genital physic.
This recourse has goal to know the self-concept of transsexual and to
know the factors with influence the self-concept of transsexual. The subjects here
are three man who have characteristics as follows: a). who consider himself as a
woman b) who is often or ever contact with transsexual c.) who is in earlymiddle-
age (18-40 years), physic and psychology changes which accompany lack
of reproductive ability (Hurlock, 1980) d.) show another sex identity continuously
at least 2 years.
The data collective methods are used interview and observation. From the
result of the data analysis can be concluded that personal concept of transsexual
divided into four categories:
1. Self-judgment physically, the subject tends to conceal his identity as
man.
2. Self-judgment physically, the subject decides to show. Himself as woman
consciously and available in the environment when entry the grown step
of adult (16-18 years), judge themselves as woman, have awareness that
transsexual have different sexual with the other.
3. Self-judgment morally, the subject considered that responsibility of his
constitutes his privacy. Because life as transsexual is the choice of
personal subject.
4. Self-judgment socially, judge a man can be sexual relation otherwise a
woman just can be a friend, he tends to feel uncomforted interaction in
environment, he likes if the environment treat him as woman.
There are factors which is influence transsexual to build their personal concept:
1. An internal factor, there is a controversy between their desire to be a
woman but the fact that they are man, and they feel comfort with their
genetic appearance.
2. An external factor, the environment usually unaware with the strange
attitude, which far from their own sex, social interaction with transsexual,
there is a rejection from the family at the beginning as transsexual and
there is no support to convince them to be man.

Tidak ada komentar:

Posting Komentar