Growing up as a child in India, I always
learned from my peers to stay away from transgender people. I was taught to never
talk to them, always ignore them because they are not equal and they steal
children away from their parents. I always had a very negative image of transgender
people on my mind because of how the Indian society portrayed them. It was
injected in my mind that transgender people are bad, so I was always scared of them.
When I came to US in the summer of 2000, I realized that hatred towards
transgender people occur here as well. I saw that same discrimination is going
on in America towards transgender people. People look at transgender identities
and think that why would anyone ever want to do that. When they look at Trans
women, they wonder being a man is the best thing in the world then how can
anyone not want to be a man.
Or when they see Tran’s men, they wonder how a
beautiful woman can do that to herself.
They
wonder why she wants to grow a beard in her face and have muscles. People don’t
understand about transgender identities because they are ignorant and that’s
how hate and discrimination follows. These discriminations need to stop! Everyone
should be treated equally!
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