Gender Discrimination In The United States

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Gender Discrimination is something that happens everywhere. I notice in the U.S when we focus on gender discrimination we only look at women but disregard transgender in that discrimination. For instance, many transgenders are murder every year; however, we don’t raise attention to the problem. However, it can be seen in other countries that transgender rights is a working progress like the U.S. I remember reading something a while back and the article mention how the activist LBGTQ movement helped to bring global awareness to the transgender community. For instance, I think some countries developed a third gender option in places like Nepal and Germany. The strive to end gender discrimination is going to take some time and the presenter mentioned

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