Transgender Identity Research Paper

In the world, about 1.4 million people identify themselves as transgender, such as celebrities from Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox, Erika Ervin, and many more. According to New York Times, study's shows most transgender people are from the ages of 18 to 44. What is transgender exactly? What is gender identity? Transgender is one who identifies themselves as the opposite sex from the sex he/she was born with and their own internal gender identity do not match. Gender identity is someone’s internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or as someone outside of that gender binary). In recent years, there has been a controversy over transgender rights and most especially the rights of using a bathroom.Throughout this essay you will hear about
Due to this, the percentage of transgender people who have attempted suicide is 41% from a crown of 6,450 people. These people attempted, at some point, to take their own lives. The reason for this is because of sexual assault, harassment in school, physical assault and many more. For example, a student was being separated from the rest of his classmates, "Although he presented as male and had completed a court-ordered name change, the school district still required that he use the nurse’s office for restroom access and to change in and out of his gym clothes. This arrangement caused him to miss a significant amount of class time. Sometimes his peers would tease him for taking so long to travel the long distance to the nurse’s office and back. Eventually, he stopped going to the bathroom at all. Changing for gym was also a source of stress and anxiety because he would have to come up with excuses to explain to his peers why he was changing in the nurse’s office instead of in the locker room like everybody else" (Case: Student v. Arcadia Unified School District). This demonstrates how inconvenient it is for a student to change in and out of clothes for activities. As each day passes, he loses time where he could've been doing more exercise or class work, instead of pacing back and forward from the nurse's office every day to use the restroom and change. The student also attended an overnight school field trip and as you may have guessed, the school district wanted his father to join as a chaperone and refused to put him in a cabin with the rest of his male friends. Furthermore, this violates the Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972. The Title IX, Education Amendment states "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the