The Stages of Transformational Learning Cycle, Characteristics and Factors

It produces a new level of meaning in your life. Inevitably, the transformational learning cycle moves through the stages of recognizing a significant. Problem, confronting it intensely, finding a solution, and integrating a new perspective and a new set of assumptions into your life pattern this process requires a great deal of reflection and is often painful.

And stressful Transformation, though desirable, rarely comes easily. It separates life into distinct “before” and “after” realities.

My Self-awareness- I need to have more ambition when it comes to learning online, as for my family relationships there’s lots of trust, honesty and respect. My work relationship is excellent and I get the job done well, the most important thing to me is life goals it means a lot to me, I must keep my faith, stability, goodness and prosperity to accomplish all life’s goals that is exactly what I intend to do to reach all my set goals.

The transformational experience in my life is: Learning face to face and learning online: I can follow my instructor’s assignments clearly. When it’s explained face to face,although I Learn and understand things, face to face I prefer online school, knowing I can start or finish my Work at my own paste and complete my assignments without interruptions.

I’m still working on my transformation; it has been difficult for me, but I’m gradually getting use to learning online.

I Experienced – experiencing a disorienting dilemma. When I started school online I felt lost and confused, I didn’t know what to do and how the online school exactly went, it took me two weeks to figure out how to review and submit assignments, respond to student and correspond with my instructor. Transphobia is the intense dislike, sometimes even hatred, or prejudice towards transsexual or transgender people. People with transphobia often will disagree with non-transphobes about the number of genders in the world, believing there is only 2. Values like this are often rationalized by religion or religious beliefs, and therefore can lead to the debate of religions, but as I discuss later in my paper, the theory of transphobia is not a debate between religious beliefs.

The idea of genital determinism, is prevalent throughout most of society, but quite controversial among many. Tumblr is a major modern way that transphobia spreads, since most of the controversy and fake created genders are spawned from this website. Many of these genders are created as jokes, travelling across the internet, until it offends someone and sparks hatred towards these “fake” genders. While this is how it forms in modern days, the original philosophy of transphobia started when people felt offended by the idea that there are other genders. This causes them to offend transgenders or transgender sympathizers, who in turn direct their hate towards transphobes. This is a vicious cycle and it is not very helpful to anyone, except in policy making, when the decision is to be made to benefit either the most or harm the least amount of people.

Some consider transphobia to be much like homophobia, and in part this is true, because many people with transphobia are also homophobic and vice versa for the same reason they other the other one. But make no mistake, these two philosophies are very different. Transphobia is against those who do not know or are confused about their gender as many transphobes would claim, in other words, those who are or claim to be neither male nor female, but somewhere in between. But homophobia is against those who claim their sexual orientation is towards their own gender. While these issues may be closely related and over-generalized to the LGBT community, they are separate topics. One core belief of transphobia is gender essentialism. Gender essentialism is that males and females are anatomically different, such as they have different sexual organs, chromosomes, and males and females even have different lobes in their brains. Gender essentialism perpetuates the idea that transgenders do not exist to transphobes, because they believe that there is no defining characteristics for transgenders, but there are defining characteristics for “real” genders. Thus, transgenders and trnassexuals do not really exist physically, but they are rather an imaginary construct of the mind. Extreme transphobes, would even argue that believing one is a different gender than the sex they are born as, have a serious mental illness.

Another concept of transphobia, is genital determinism. To them, the concept of being genderfluid or genderqueer is totally incorrect, claiming that biology, not psychology, defines a person’s gender. In a sense, society considers this to be correct, because when a baby is born a doctor says something along the lines of congrats on your new baby girl or boy. They are assuming the gender of the child, because they understand biology, but sometimes this may offend parents, because they are just assuming the child’s gender. In this sense, society is basically saying that everyone is born a certain gender and transphobes take it to mean that everyone dies the same gender they are born and there is no changing that in between.

A final core concept that I will be touching on is that sex is the same as gender. Google says that gender is the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones), while sex is defined as either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions. Google admits that there is only two genders, male and female, but still have different definitions for these two words. A transphobic will argue that Google is half-way correct, but still needs to correct themselves about the fact that the definition of sex should be the same as gender. A transphobic trying to define gender in 1 word would say sex and if they were defining sex in one word, they would say gender.

As I said before, transphobia is an extreme dislike or prejudice about transgenders, and this applies to the debate stage, because on any issue involving gender, there always must be solvency for males, females, and everything in between. Playing the transphobia card can lead into the discussion that the utilitarianism is void, due to the fact that there are many people out there with transphobia. People of such would not benefit from either their opponents advocacy, therefore smashing an arguments framework and/or even some cards used by the opponent. On the flipside, in opposition to a transphobia argument against utilitarianism, is giving evidence that there are more transgenders in the US than transphobes or in by making the claim that many transphics have transphobia, due to the marginalization and exiliation of transgenders and that making their issues more public would solve the problem, thus their advocacy is made stronger, by helping transgenders, both on the issue on public opinion as an added bonus. Recently, controversy has sparked in the US about the concept of allowing transgenders into the public bathroom of their choice.

Many transphobes were outraged by the suggestion of this, not just for the fear of themselves, but for the fear of people taking advantage of the law and then advantage of their children. To contrast, those who are in favor of passing, believe that such harms will not occur and that transphobes are demonizing decent transgender people. This leads to a debate between the two sides and there would be no clash between the two, because they are arguing two separate issues from each other, except in the case when they meet on the common ground that is transphobia. In this argument, an affirmation of it, could use transphobia as a comparison to racism and other prejudices that have occurred in the past as empirical data, which would prove transphobia is bad and then advocate for changing and this is a vital step in it. While on the the negation of this, could base their argument of off the main principle that many transphobic beliefs are rooted deeply and would not not change, therefore angering the public and ending up with a net loss. This ends up with a debate focused on more on idealism than pragmatism, thus the burden of proving feasibility is on the affirmative. But if the affirmative proves that either feasibility does not take place in this round or that the affirmative advocacy is feasible, then they have won the argument.