Persuasive Speech About Transgender Children

In her article A Boy’s Life, Hanna Rosin gives us a glimpse at what some of these transgender children go through. As she follows the life of Brandon (later called Bridget), she unveils a range of hurdles that kids like him and his parents must overcome. Problems like social rejection, gender identification, and the anxiety that all of this creates becomes the usual for a family like Brandon’s. But even so, all of this is minimal in comparison to the huge decision that the parents must make in behalf of the child. In the article, Rosin reveals to us that scientists have come up with a way to prevent a kid’s development into

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them” this quote written by Aldous Huxley accurately describes the impact parents have on their children. When parents aid their transgender children in transitioning into the opposite sex they are committing child abuse; changing sex is unsafe, indecent, and permanent. Over the course of a month, I have been a slave to the library. I have read over 30 articles on transgenderism; The basis of my opinion comes from well-sifted through research. The definition of child abuse is the mistreatment of a child by physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect, especially by those responsible for his or her welfare. Parents of transgender kids are neglecting what they need

Scholars have been critical of the medical establishment’s and state’s involvement in constructing and policing of transgender identity. These kinds of pressing issues have occupied the small existing literature. There is not much information and studying what is being done on transgender in traditional areas, family studies research, such as their dating behavior and formation of intimate relationships in adulthood. There is little research on the issues around being parents, their children’s experiences with having transgendered parents, as well as relationships in the family as a whole, and relationships in work and school.

" We came equals into this world, and equals we shall leave it, " - George Mason. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the whites clearly discriminate the blacks. They are treated unfairly and unjust. Readers are able to realize how bad the discrimination is once Tom Robinson had lost his court case. Readers who pay attention are able to still see how other groups and people are being discriminated today in modern society.

People have been transgender and gender nonconforming for longer than many may realize. The first case of a documented person who was transgender dates back to

I was wrong in my thinking and life is more complex than that. The challenges of living in a transphobic society that children must face rejection, discrimination, and violence daily, must be difficult. Transgender is a general term that refers to people with a variety of identities. In the broadest sense, refers to people who do not adhere to the cultural definitions of gender. This term encompasses transsexual men and women, or those that have altered their genitals to match the gender they choose to express, but it also includes transgender men and women who express a gender identity other than the one assigned at birth but do not choose to have genital alteration surgery. Both transgender and transsexual people may use hormones, clothing, makeup, wigs and/or hairstyles, and other types of surgery (such as facial feminization surgery or mastectomies) in their presentation of gender. Transgender also may refer to drag kings and queens, women and men who dress as the opposite gender for the purposes of performance, or people who identify as genderqueer—people who choose to express both or neither gender in their presentation. (Hoffman, 2014). This holds true for transgender children as well. There are many things that people do not realize about transgender children. Being transgender is a very complex situation to be in. Transgender children go through things such as

The first article I read was “There is No Such Thing as “Transgender”,” by Thaddeus Baklinski. Bakinski who is a staff

In the United States, at least 0.3% of our population is comprised of transgender individuals. Of whom struggle with numerous discriminatory laws. Although this is not a large number it doesn’t justify these acts.

It seems as if 2015 has been the year of change. From liquid water being found on Mars, to riots in Baltimore, we can all agree that this has been one memorable year. An immensely colossal topic that has carried over from the previous year was the gay rights movement, which has made a huge social media impact. With the legalization of gay marriage, the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transexual and Queer community has risen and “come out of the closet” publicly. With such encouraging movement, billions of children have officially publicly come to terms with their identity and received a various tone of feedback from the public. With this led to an argumentative topic; is allowing a young child to express a transexual

-- Mary Kathryn Burke ABC News : 7 Questions Answered About Transgender People, May 05, 2016

My opinion is influenced by the natural law of nature and of negative factors of transgenderism when compared to the traditional way of society. Allowing a child to determine whatever they want to be sexually is a problem for concern where the gender issues in which the presenter expressed is anti-procreation. There are also psychological issues surrounding Gender identification.

“It was adults, not children.” What transgender people endure every day is not easy, to imagine a child as young age six or seven dealing with what transgender people go through is hard to think about. All the constant teasing, bullying,assault, threats.Grown people live through this every breath they take and there’s no safe haven for them.people who made the decision to physically change or have finally opened up at an older age had less time in their lives going through that. That's not to say they were better off obviously they had to hold it in but a child in my opinion will have it more difficult in life. I am very religious ,I was basically raised with the Bible in my hand and went to bible study every Wednesday, faith club every Friday

About .03% of the world's population is transgender. Some transgenders undergo hormonal treatments and special surgeries to alter their sex, others only choose to alter their outer appearance, some even both. "No amount of surgical mutilation of body parts, effeminate behaviors, or artificial female appearances can make a man a woman." Title IX protects the right of transgender students to use locker rooms and restrooms that match their gender identities."How does the “feeling” of a gender dysphoric man take priority over the safety of your wife, daughter, girlfriend, mother, sister or friend." To some it's not obvious to see that telling men he can suddenly decide to “feel” like a woman can lead to sexual assault the breakage of women's privacy

The world is constantly changing and will continue to change throughout the future. The way kids grow up is completely different than how it was 50 years ago. Some kids are now coming out as transgender and this is outraging the populous. Now the question is, is this the right way to raise a kid? Is this putting the child in harm's way? These are the questions that are up for debate.

Because gender expression starts at such a young age, many people in society have expressed concern that children are too young to understand what they mean and are convinced that people become transgender due to nurture rather than nature. On the contrary, as seen in the case of Brandon and many others, that concern could not be proven more false. As Sherer et al.’s article brings out, “children are aware of their gender identity generally by age 2 years or younger” (2). These children are very young and are, more than likely, not exposed much to transgender people, or, even more so, know what it is and whether it should be “acceptable” or “unacceptable.” This is best illustrated in a conversation between Brandon and another kid who came up to him at a