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Everyone has a gender
it is a thing affects everything of our lives.
It affects how we act like and look like every day
However, have you ever thought about what is gender?
Gender is the thing that describes the characteristics
that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine.
Today, most of the countries define gender
base on the physical and genetic sexuality at birth.
There is at least one transgender person,
whose self-gender identity is different from
the assigned gender sex at birth,
in each 100 people.
Under the rules of our society,
there are at least 70 million people
living in the world without their identity.
I feel like sex and gender are the same
Because once we are born this way
Then you should behave in this way
If you don’t
Other people would think you are weird
Transgender youth would have
a 4-times higher risk in attempting life-threatening behaviors
because of the experiences of
past parental verbal and physical abuse.
While Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
or its amendments do not provide protection
from discrimination for individuals
based on *** orientation
transgender, or transvestites,
there are a growing number of state,
cities, and counties with transgender
explicit nondiscrimination laws.
I have wait 3 years until my school to finish
Since I meet these people who take the *** out of me every day
It’s finally all over in two and half weeks
I just want it to come quicker
I hate my self so much
For you people out there
Who look at the mirror and say “I am so fat, I need to go on diet”
Fxxk you
I can’t even look at the mirror and be happy with myself
And it is very difficult
I just don’t want my gender to hurt me anymore
I just want to be happy with who I am
I don’t even care if I was born as poorest, ugliest, fattest guy in the world
It would still be better than this
I just want everyone to be happy
Love yourself and don’t take gender identity for granted
If you know you are female and have a female body
Good for you
There are people like me out there
We don’t see ourselves like we are
I look on Facebook
One of my good friends posted a status
Defining a man as having a ***
Why is it that genitals define your gender?
If gender is psychological
Gender is what you think you are
Besides science
We define gender by stereotypes
You stereotype a man has big muscles, deep voice
Take care of kids and his wife
It is so stupid to have stereotypes
Because if one guy step out of stereotypes
Wears pink socks
He would be called “cam”
Is “cam” still meaning you are a guy?
So why do we have gender?
In China, we don’t talk much about transgender
In Chinese society
We have the concept that a man should behave in a male way
A woman should behave in a female way
To redefine the gender’s definition
to include transgender people and
help them escaping from discrimination,
society must acknowledge the fact of
the existence of transgender people;
however, the mass media has blocked
the road for the society to understand the truth.
The mass media has ignored the facts and
reinforced the perception that transgender people
are unacceptable by clinging to the binary sex category
and misleading the images of transgender people.
I feel like sex and gender should not have this obvious distinction
Our behaviors should not be limited by our biological characteristic
We are not only born with biological characteristic
But we also born with our thinking
But the media forces us to change our mind
To change how we behave
And we have to do something we are not willing to do
It is not fair
It is not fair for the transgender people to do something they are not
willing to do
Because I think what you said made great sense
And I feel like it is time to realize
the serious problem happening within the transgender people
In the world that almost everyone is
talking about freedoms and rights,
there are 70 millions transgender people
living without their identities,
facing serious life-threatening discriminations
and difficulties in their everyday life
70 million people are not
enjoying the same rights, benefits,
and even basic protections as others.
When we mean a human,
we mean the person inside his body.
Besides the physical body is born this way,
the humanity inside the body is also born this way.