Analysis Of The Personal Struggle Of A Transgender Education

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This article states the personal struggle a transgender individual had to live through in school. A student within the school was deprived from the right of going to the bathroom with the sex he had identified with. Throughout the article, the author correlates the story with emotions as a way to make the sadden the audience and to invoke a desire for a change. This article would be beneficial to support my argument because it gives a personal story which has emotions within it. By using this article it would help support the idea that humans are humans and that everyone has their personal opinions as well as having their emotions.

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