Gender Dysphoria Development In Lee Mokobe?s Slam Poetry

The research discusses about development of gender identity disorder portrayed in slam poems spoken by Lee Mokobe. Lee Mokobe, a female to male transgender slam poet who won many slam poetry competitions with his poems that depict his own and personal life experience while transitioning his gender identity. The analysis in this research is using diagnosis of gender dypshoria by Kenneth Zucker. In order to find the resolution of the research's problem, writer uses descriptive qualitative research method that focuses on the attributes of gender identity disorder shown in three of Lee Mokobe's slam poems. Then, this research finds the developments of gender identity disorder based on the analysis of paraphrased slam poems into two stages of gender dysphoria, adolescence and adult. First, the poems portrayed about gender identity disorder that occurred to the speaker when she was an adolescence girl. Second, the poems show experiences of bully and stress that causes the speaker to have social dysfunctions. Third, the slam poems have proven a result that there are attributes and symptoms of gender dysphoria development