The Stereotypes Of The Transgender Community

The transgender community is a community of individuals who are born with typical male or female anatomies but feel as though they’ve been born into the “wrong body”. Often times transgender people are confused with transsexual people. Transsexual people are those with sex-related structures of their brain that define gender identity are the opposite the physical sex organs of the body. Basically, a transsexual person has a mind that is literally, physically, trapped in a body of the opposite sex. Up until I was in high school, I had no prior knowledge about the transgender community. Everything I knew about transgender people up until this point was from reality TV, which told the stories of those who had experienced such occurrences. The reality TV side of this topic only …show more content…
When I was in high school, there was a girl named Katie who appeared different just by first glance. Katie dressed like a boy and had short hair. Even though Katie was so kind, she did not have a lot of friends because she identified as transgender. Growing up I was always taught to treat everyone equally, so when I saw Katie sitting alone at the lunch table, I sat her with. Katie never opened up to me, and I could tell she was very private. I did not need to be told Katie was transgender by her, I knew, and accepted it and didn’t care. I sat with Katie everyday for lunch for a month, before she dropped out of school because of bullying. It was very upsetting to me that people treated her that way, and couldn’t come to