Notes

As society begins to gradually accept the civil rights of the queer community, suchas a marriage equality and protective laws, the movement for transgender rights isbecoming more of an issue, although much greater progress is still required. In themodern world of gender roles and binaries, being denoted simply as other has tocommon problems for transgender community such as workplace discriminations, lackof recognition in schools, exclusion from the gender sports, and interacting withintolerance on a daily basis. Combined these factors work to demean any person whodoes not fall within the strict limits of the cisgender binary complex. Traditional valueshave left others who do not behind and struggling to survive. The drive for basisliberties is an important one, because it means a different of life and death and canalso allow people who have been excluded from society for most of its past to bewelcomed in a new age. Queer people in the workplace, especially those who are transgender, experiencea much greater deal of discrimination than their cisgender counterparts. It is currentlylegal in thirty two status to fire workers for being transgender. Another historic rightwas taken away last week as Kansas Governor Brownback signed an executive orderrescinding protective rights for LGBTQ. Transgender students also face an array ofdiscrimination in schools, such as a being forced into using the bathroom of theirassigned gender and not being recognized by the school referring to that student by
their assigned gender and its pronouns. “
While bathroom is just a bathroom, it canhold great significance for transgender and gender nonconforming kids, especially
those seeking acceptance from peers” Another challenge is participating in sport, specifically the issue of student withvarying anatomies changing in the same locker room. Although they both identify witha certain gender. Thirty-two states have adopted policies in recent years regardingtransgender athletes with several states placing restrictions on their ability to completewith teammates of their preferred gender. The movement for transgender equality is simple and based on the idea thatpeople who grapple with gender identify still deserve the same rights as any cisgenderperson. These laws are used to trump fundamental civil liberties such as free speech andfree exercise religion. Rather than single out those with traditional beliefs, protectivelegislation is passed to ensure the rights of transgender people, who have faced hatecrimes and discrimination for most of history and now being safeguarded through thelaw. The constitution was not created to protect the right of discrimination, but ratherprovide protection for those who would otherwise be excluded and legally defenseless
-Jef Alinsugay X-Jacinto