Research Paper On A Girl Like Me

A GIRL LIKE ME: GWEN ARAUJO STORY The film, A Girl Like Me, is based on a true story of a transgender teenager who was not accepted by the society. Gwen Araujo was born as Eddie Araujo. However, as he got older he started to realize that he was more female than a male. Eddie feels like a girl. Eddie likes wearing makeup and woman clothes. When he wore makeup and woman clothes, Eddie’s mother Sylvia gets angry. Sylvia is having a hard time to accept Eddie’s situation. After Eddie started to high school, Eddie changed his name to Gwen. Gwen began to live like a woman. She started to grow her hair, makeup and wear dresses. She met Joey at Gwen’s sister wedding party. Then, they have a relationship, but Joey did not know Gwen’s real sex. After
When we compare it with a real woman, it seems that transsexual crimes are considered less and that transgender murders are treated more lightly with punishment. In the language of gender, which promises to protect "all men and women", the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that human rights defenders exclude transgender peoples ("Gwen Araujo murder 14 years later: Transgender teen’s killers face parole," 2016). After Gwen died, the media and criminal justice system acted more concerned with homophobic hate killings. Attorney general in court for Gwen was charged as a “sin of deception” and “sexual fraud.” Two of the defendants guilty of second-degree murder (""2 Convicted of Murdering Transgender Teen"," 2005). However, they were not charged with a hate crime by the court. When they defended themselves, they used to "trans panic defense." (Shelley, 2008, p. 47). As I argued, the Araujo case shows the inadequacies of the rights and evidence categories of the trans-citizens described in the legal system. For a transsexual person, what constitutes the truth, or the lie remains a simple matter when the gender is