The Dilemma of Transgender Bathroom Use There are many individuals who do not know about the increasingly common identity known as transgender. Transgender is a term that describes a person who identifies as the sex opposite of what is stated on their birth certificate. Also‚ a numerous amount of people don ’t recognize the growing population of individuals who are gender-nonconforming‚ which means they identify themselves as neither man nor woman. To a large sum of transgender people life is the
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ABOUT THE TRANSGENDER Empowering and Educating about the Transgender Sodality through Social Media and Laws Abstract For many years‚ the transgender community has been constantly ridiculed by society because of the negative impact that media and laws have placed upon them. As a result‚ suicide rate‚ drug abuse‚ and suicide have been on the rise. By informing and educating our society‚ we can all help reduce the high risks and open the door for new laws to accommodate the transgender sodality
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Normalizing Transgender Transgender individuals have been at war for years‚ fighting for equal rights that are so readily available to those who are "normal". These rights that we may take for granted everyday like employment‚ wages and even acceptance in society. In a passage from Imagining Transgender by David Valentine‚ he writes about a woman by the name of Holly Boswell who advocated for a position of cross-gender identification‚ she challenged the notion of normality by saying that transgender
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Transgender individuals are often oppressed‚ harassed and sometimes even victims of murder because of what they are… transgender. Types of harassment include people purposely misgendering them by using the wrong pronouns and refusing to use their preferred pronouns‚ people using offensive‚ derogatory names towards them‚ and students being bullied for being transgender. Though it is still an issue of people invalidating a transgender person’s pronouns‚ universities are starting to implement other
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My goal today is to instill the need for transgender rights into the youth of our nation. The National percentage of trans students that feel unsafe at school today is 75% and the percentage of trans people and gender nonconforming people that have attempted suicide is 41%. Thats a very high number compared to the national average of 4.6% of attempted suicide. The Reason I brought this up is because‚ the national average of trans students who have attempted suicide should be nearing zero because
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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ transgender means of‚ or relating to‚ or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity from the one which corresponds to the person’s sex at birth. Children have commonly developed their gender and identity roles by the age of three. At such a young and tender age‚ it is important that schools be prepared to handle situations these children may face as well as give them the support they may need. In 2013‚ a 6 year old boy from Colorado
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transsexual people have very specific needs‚ including legal and medical‚ which are often overlooked in the LGBT movement and side skirted in many conversations in some transgender spaces. Specifically‚ I am thinking about certain theoretical conversations that go on in the genderqueer community and people who identify as transgender but do not pursue body modifications. As someone who got into a certain trans community identifying heavily as genderqueer and not at the time pursuing or showing a
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I believe we need to treat transgender people equally just like we treat heterosexual people. It’s not by choice they assigned a gender at birth. For them their own inner gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. The essay‚ Transgender Portrayal Representation in Media‚ shows that more than a half of people mentally got effected by the influence of the media. Misleading of media hurts transgender people. I wish we could live a world everybody treated equally regardless
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LGBTQ youth report at least one suicide attempt within the last year because of our cruel actions and words. People who are transgender shouldn’t be ridiculed against just because they are different. Schools need to respect everyoneś rights and make accommodations within the existing facilities where everyone can feel comfortable and accepted. Furthermore being transgenders in this era of time is without a doubt not easily accepted. Schools need to help all students feel more comfortable by providing
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Jazmin Chavez May 29‚ 2013 Speech and Debate Research paper: Transgender children “ I don’t look like a little girl. I am a little girl. This is what five year old Josie Romero claimed in National T.V (Innes 5) Biologically Josie was born as Joey a male but now she identifies herself a female (1). Many accuse and criticize Mrs. Romero‚ Josie’s mother for tolerating her child to switch genders at such an early stage in her child’s life. Nonetheless‚ common sense seems to dictate that a child’s
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