The Transgender issues

Every day the issues of gays and lesbians is becoming more and more known and making bigger strides every year. Along with them we get to learn about bisexuals, pansexual, asexual, and any other sexuality that isn’t defended as heterosexual. However, a certain cause is tied close with this but not making as many strides or being heard as much, the issues of transgendered people. While the famous LGBTA activist organization group does involve transgendered people their voice in the movement is rather small and not heard very often. However the organization GATE - Global Action for Trans* Equality has an aim to change this and make the transgendered people known and heard in hopes to unite the many groups that want the same. They hope to one day make the world safe for those who are transgendered. This paper is going to cover what being transgendered really is, the history of this group and the groups who oppose it and where this group seems to be heading.

Children are taught there are two genders boy and girl; later on we learn these genders are tired into our genitalia also known as our sex. However, very few children are taught about ‘the boy who was born in the wrong body’ or ‘the girl who feels like a boy’ these cases deal with individuals that are call transgendered. Transgender can be defined as an individual who’s mental gender does not match the assigned sex they are given at birth. It can also be explained as one who “does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender.”. (Oxford Dictionary)People who deal with this can suffer from Body dimorphic disorder, or BDD. In which the individual worries about how the world perceives them as they do not fit the media stander of boy or girl. This disor...

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...ondoms the killing and abuse that Trans individuals face, and actually encourages such things with signs that read “pray for dead soldiers” and “thank god for dead soldiers” referring to the new policy allowing LGTBA individuals into the army.

Organization such as GATE, LGTBA, and The Center are needed because of organization such as GodHateFags. Organizations like GATE are helping improve the life of any trans individuals making the world a safer more accepting place for them. As the years pass they hope that Identifying as transgendered or non-specific will become more normal and result in less hate and abuse. That one day they can live in an accepting world free of the fear that comes with identifying as such. Because of groups like this, groups like GodHatesFags will have less of a voice in the community. Hopefully one day groups like that will cease to exist.