Informative Essay On Transgenders

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Imagine someone having to use the opposite of their gender’s bathrooms and the locker rooms. Imagine the embarrassment and shame they would feel, and the teasing and bullying they would receive because of it. Unfortunately, this is the reality for most people who are transgender. Making a law for transgenders to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify as would lead to better self confidence, to more acceptance from others, and to less transgenders feeling victimized.

Creating a new law for transgender people to use the public facilities of the gender they associate with would help transgender people gain more self confidence. For example, the nation’s second largest school district, LAUSD, has allowed

There’s a difference between your parts and your gender, and I know it’s hard to understand and there is a lot of controversy around this, but to be misgendered as a boy when you are actually a trans girl is incredibly offensive,’” (Somashekhar 2). The people who think it’s like a boy being in the girl’s locker room are wrong because being transgender means they are changing the gender they were born with to the gender they feel they really are. A transgender person is the gender that they say they are- whether they have had gender reassignment surgery, have gotten hormone treatments or if they haven't even done anything yet.

Finally, a state assemblyman sponsoring a bill to make a law in California that grants more rights for transgenders there named Tom Ammiano says, "'Transgender students deserve equal access to everything in public education. You can't discriminate just because you're uncomfortable with a young man transitioning to become a young women,'" (Lovett 1). Making a law for more rights for transgenders will help those who are uncomfortable with transgenders become accepting of them. With this new law for transgenders, cisgender people will learn to have tolerance for