Donald Trump’s contempt for the Trans community has revealed itself more than once. Earlier this year, he put into place a policy that prevented Transgender people from serving in the military except under “limited circumstances”. New regulations also make it possible for medical professionals to discriminate against LGBTQ people on moral or religious grounds. His administration now proposes to define transgender people very narrowly based on “biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.”
The proposed change will define a person as either male or female at birth. This will depend upon the physical genitalia that a person is born with. This gender will be immutable or unchangeable. The identity of a person born with indeterminate genitalia or someone who feels that they are born in the wrong body and need to transition to another gender will effectively be erased.
The sheer callousness and the viciousness of the proposed change has prompted extremely negative reactions. It isn’t just liberals and democrats but even republicans and the devout who feel unhappy about something that is essentially a violation of basic human rights.
This image perfectly demonstrates the reality of someone who feels they are born in the wrong body. As the text says: “no amount of denial or stubbornness will make those carrots turn into peas."
Trans people as well as people with friends and relatives with alternative gender identities; basically anyone with basic decency has voiced their support of the trans community.
These are people who have to live with a lot of hate, bigotry and ignorance on a daily basis anyway. With the administration looking to strip them of rights; trying to nullify their existence, many are genuinely scared.
The ridicule and casual ignorance that many Trans people are subjected to has to be humiliating and angry making.
This has been the tenor of a lot of tweets – how does it affect anyone that someone else is a transsexual, transgender or anything else that they choose to be or feel compelled to be!
Many shared their stories of love: for a child, a lover or a friend; simply telling the world about the beautiful human beings that Trans people are.
Here a mother speaks about her own son coming out and about supporting him. 1.4 million Americans identify themselves as a gender different from the one assigned at birth – this issue would impact millions of lives.
Lady Gaga came out in support while asserting that this is not the “reality of humanity”; that it is merely the display of ignorant leadership.
People have decided that they will not allow this trampling of rights; there will be protests, donations made to LGBT+ organisations. Few people seem to think that this is objective, scientific or clear as alleged. With the midterms just days away, many people have decided to speak out in the most vocal way possible in a democracy: with their votes.
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