Discrimination In Tenderloin

Nearly a decade after Jorgensen's story, challenges to normative sex began emerging yet again. A “youth- orientated cultural rebellion” was on the rise and the goal was to integrate sexual freedom (cite pg 63 trans history). As with any other rebellions, the push towards equality for transgender people was induced by immense mistreatment and segregation. Much like the segregation of blacks into different communities, transgender people were confined to specific areas in urban settings. Police and officials would often arrest transgender people for no valid reason and dropped them off at locations where transgender people usually lived. A location where the population of transgender people was very concentrated was the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. Tenderloin had many clubs and bars that were the social mingling grounds of transgender people. However, despite having an area of acceptance, there were still people in Tenderloin who upheld strict heteronormative views.(cite)
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Common misconceptions surrounding transgender individuals often include the notion that they are confused and there is something psychologically abnormal causing this. Additionally, people tend to assume that there is a stereotypical “look” or “type” of person that is transgender and that every transgender person is a homosexual (u can just tell by looking). However, contrary to these beliefs, the truth behind transgender individuals is much more complicated. The transgender journey is one that contains many struggles to overcome insecurities and be true to one’s inner sexual identity. Rather than treating a different sexual identity as an abnormality, people realized that it is more wise to understand the differences between gender identity, gender expression, and several other terms surrounding transgender