consider the excerpt from the bookShe's Not Thereas well as the videoFull Story: The Fight for Trans Rights.
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Classmate 1:"At times we feel that we have been cast aside"That quote came from the video and the video talks about fighting for trans genderrights.They are receivingso much hate for who they are and they are not treated as an equal to everyone else. Everyday they have to fight for their rights and speak up. They can not even walk down the street sometimes without being called names. They are even targeted by violence and sometimes even murder. Many people do not understand the trans gender community and they put hate on them because they are scared of what they do not know.
In the story She's Not There, there was a man questioning his gender. He went to see a therapist to understand why he was feeling this way. People are made to feel that they have to be certain way or there is something wrong with them. By going to the therapist he thought they this was something you could change. But you can not change who you really are. No amount of therapy is going to change your mentality, it is something that comes from within and may always be there. When you feel like that, you can feel like you have to free yourself from the way from the way society is telling you to be.
Classmate 2:The main theme of both sources is the acceptance trans-people seek in society. In “She’s not there” Boylan tells her story about her transition from man to woman. Before her transition, Boylan lived her life like an ordinary heterosexual male with a wife and children. One day she came to the realization that she was living a lie. Clearly this wasn’t an easy decision to make knowing that she could lose the most important people in her life. Her whole life she felt like she was stuck inside of the wrong body. After telling her wife everything she was feeling, Boylan noticed how hard it was for her wife to process this information because she only had a short time knowing about it. Boylan knew more than anything that she wanted to become a woman. The main idea of this reading was the validation Boylan was seeking from her wife. Her biggest fear was losing the relationship she has with her wife. “But Doc, how can I expect her to participate in a process that by its very definition will take the man she loves away from her? That will destroy the life we have lived” (Boylan 304)? All Boylan wanted was to be accepted by her wife. At the end of her story, she became a full woman and received the support she always wanted from her wife.
Not all trans-gender stories have a happy ending like Boylan’s. Trans-people, like all people seek for acceptance in society. Based on the YouTube video “The fight for trans rights” acceptance is the last thing society gives them. From being verbally abused to physically abused, this hatred towards trans-people seems like a daily norm to a trans-person. The idea that one’s gender doesn’t match the sex one is born with is still something new to society. “I think it could be very confusing for some people, and it is probably confusing for most people because being trans is still not normalized in our society”(Video 14:05-14:12). The discrimination trans-people face in the work place forces them to work in the streets as sex workers. Some are homeless, unable to survive in the world because of the unfairness occurring against them. In the video they mentioned a young boy who wasn’t accepted by his family. At the age of 10, he knew he was a boy but his parents did not approve. The physical abuse he experienced made him run away at the age of 16. He said he felt safer in the streets than at home. Most trans-people that participated in the video shared similar stories. They also mentioned some trans-people that didn’t survive. They all just want to live a normal life and be accepted in society.
****Video Link:https://youtu.be/vGGZlE0-uhE