The Issue Of Discrimination Against Transgenders

Majority of transgender people will face some sort of discrimination in their lifetime whether it is through being rejected by their families, denied housing or finding employment. “Employment discrimination forces many to become involved in the street economy and in survival crime. Widespread bias and ignorance among law enforcement and other officials mean that transgender people are disproportionately subjected to arrest and, in turn, imprisonment.” (al, 2011)

In the late 1950’s to mid-1960’s, the transgender community faced discrimination such as physical and verbal harassment, denial of social spaces, and alienation in the media. This matters to us today because transgender individuals are still existing and are a part of our human population today. The community is also still struggling to find their representation in the media and in society. The transgender community is still facing a wide array of types of discrimination, from nasty looks to denied access of education. Gender identity should not be taken into consideration when determining another person’s worthiness of respect.

Everyone knows discriminating genders is the wrong thing to do, but no one has seemed to try stopping it. Transgenders have been discriminated the most against. Others don’t realize how much harm they are causing by physically assaulting transgenders. One thing that should be clear to everyone is that people shouldn’t be assaulted in any way due to the fact that they are trans. In The Transgender Crucible, a 23 year old girl named CeCe McDonald is a transgender who was charged with murder just because she was defending herself. Dean Schmitz and another girl would call CeCe ugly names, calling her a guy and using derogatory words to describe her. Cece was terrified of Dean when he was running towards her. For

Transgendered people in America have made many great strides since the 1990s. They have encountered violence, lack of health care, and the loss of homes, jobs, family and friends. There have been many phases of the struggle of being transgendered in America over the years. The current phase we must be in now is equal rights. There are many variations of discrimination against the transgendered community. In our society we simply do not like what we do not understand. It is easier to discriminate than to try and understand. We are all created different and we should appreciate our differences. The change must come by addressing the views of the public. There is much justification in the unequal rights of transgendered peoples. The Human

When people want to be theirself, doesn 't everyone deserve that chance at that much freedom? According to the national LGBTQ Task Force transgender people are not that lucky when it comes to the demographics of social media. On CNN website there 's an article that discusses how transgender people are twice as likely to be unemployed and four times more likely to live in poverty compared with the general population and these disparities are much greater for transgender black and latina woman said Emanuela Grinberg writer for CNN.

Oppression is prolonged unjust and cruel treatment. The LGBT community has faced oppression for a very long time. Transgender individuals face oppression in a different way and are often overlooked by LGBT groups because they are finding themselves in a different way. Transgender people are treated cruel and even murdered because of their choices and decisions. These individuals are facing oppression based on themselves but also in ways such as poverty. With discrimination comes the difficulty to keep a job and a safe work environment. This group is one of the main groups forgotten about and misunderstood. Instead of facing oppression for one reason these individuals face cruel treatment just walking down the street. It is impossible

According to Michael Bronski’s, Ann Pellegrini’s and Michael Amico’s book “You Can Tell Just by Looking” federal anti-discrimination laws do not protect trans-gendered people or other LGBT members. Transgendered people can lose their jobs just because of their gender identity in 34 of the 50 states. According to the APA, the National Gay and Lesbian Task force did a study that a vast majority of the 6500 hundred surveyed

Transgenders are being categorized as being mentally ill. Though transgender counseling exists it only focuses on pathology and diagnosis. Transgenders are also severely at risk of hate crimes. In the United States alone, there are 321 transgender hate crimes per year. Transgender hate crimes can be compared to Muslims post-9/11. There’s no law to protect them from these hate crimes and nothing is ever really done to show them that they have rights too. There’s no law protecting them with employment right’s either. Due to discrimination they are vulnerable and led to no job, homelessness, suicide and even no health care. ( Anneliese A. Singh, Danica G. Hays, and Laurel S. Watson 20)

Nearly 80% of transgender people report that they were harassed while 35% said that they were physically assaulted at school. Transgender people are also frequent targets of hate speech, Hate crime, Bullying, physical and psychological violence, Between 2008 and 2016 there have been over 2,000 reported murders cases in 65 countries across the globe. In the U.S at least 25 transgender people were killed in 2017. 30% of transgender youth reported a history of at least one suicide attempt, and nearly 42% reported that they had attempted self - harm. According to the national center for transgender equality research, transgender people with supportive families are for less likely to

Grant et al. (2011) explain on the Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey that 19% of their sample reported being refused medical care due to their transgender or gender non-conforming status, with even higher numbers among people of color in the survey. In addition, the survey indicated that 50% of the sample reported having to teach their medical providers about transgender

In the universal declaration of human rights, it states that “All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.”(Article 7). This states that everyone has an equal protection from any discrimination. Many people today are discriminated killed or targeted for being transsexual or transgender. This can be seen in the holocaust era where men and women who were homosexuals or transgender had to wear pink triangles on their chest. They also had to go to camps or jail until they stopped liking the same sex or believing they were the opposite sex.

Transgenders Are Equals They wake up and go to bed, they go to the same stores, they breath the same air, and they drive the same cars so why can't Transgenders have the same jobs and rights as us ? Transgenders have been doing all the same things we do forever, Now suddenly it's a huge problem for them to have the same jobs and receive the same things we do and have equal rights. Transgenders should have equal rights because they are more prominent in society than we may think, they need our medical help , and they are just like everyone else. To better understand why people don't want the Transgender community to have equal rights, one reason is because people who have been sexually assaulted and traumatized physically or mentally fear that predators will use the bathroom rules to their advantage. Safe Spaces for Women is a group that provides women who have been sexually assaulted with support and care and advice.

With the legalization of transgender rights 10 states filed a lawsuit in the US District Court against Obama administration concerned about their rights, they said the federal government does not have the power to tell states that they should not make transgender people use public bathrooms of their biological gender, their lawsuit also said the Obama administration move was an attempt to rewrite federal civil rights laws that do not apply to transgender people. Later on, the lawsuit brings up problems with the letter sent by the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Education to the states warning that they could lose federal funding, which is billions of dollars the state receives each year if they don't comply with the transgender bathroom laws. The letters also note that if

Virginia was the first state to hold a trial for “unnatural” behavior, in 1624. Florida in the twenties considered LGBT people to be creatures and not humans. I also found that in 2003 about thirteen states had laws that classified LGBT behaviors as criminal by means of sodomy (Lawrence, 2006). Sodomy laws are still criminalizing LGBT people today. In some cases, this occurs when an alienated transgender youth decides to run away from home, and is thrusted into homelessness. Most of the time these individuals depend on sex work to survive. These individuals are often arrested on ambiguous charges such as soliciting or loitering

Transgender people are discriminated on an almost daily basis. They are discriminated in the workplace, as shown in a study commisioned by the Equalities Review. In a group of transgender people who have jobs and are prone to workplace-enviroment effects and opinions, “many respondents experienced harassment from co-workers and employers.” Nearly 29% of the group experience verbal abuse and harassment in the workplace enviroment, and about 4% received physical abuse. About 7% experienced threats, and about 27% experienced some sort of different treatment due to their gender non-conforming ways.(Whittle 38-39). In another study, it was found that being mistreated in the school years would have a negative effect on future outcomes relating to employment. “Those who were physically attacked in school were considerably more likely to stay in a job (64%) compared to those who were not (42%) (Grant 50).” They are also discriminated in public as well, adding on to the distress that many transgender people suffer from regularly, making it seem as if all transgender people are crazy. Transgender people are just more likely to be diagnosed as someone with a mental disorder because its helpful to see that those who have been diagnosed are “hurting and something needs to be done to help (Kreitler 1).” In