Picture this: one day you wake up and you’re in a new body. This new body you’re in is the opposite sex. When you walk into the bathroom the reflection you see is something you can’t recognize it. You try and tell people that there something wrong. No one believe you though. They think you’re a little crazy for saying you’re in the wrong body. You’re not happy being forced to become somebody else because this new body just doesn’t feel like home, and everything you do feels like a lie. Though when you tell people that you’re thinking of changing back to your correct body, people start to look at you funny. They inform you that if you do it you going to be alienated from just about everyone you know. That you could be looked at different at
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There are many reasons why this number can’t be fine. The main ones are though well never know just how many aren’t out. The other is the fact the term transgender is still a new term and something were still very much learning about. Though the best guess we have on the population of this minority group is around 700000 people (Williams Institute). That is roughly about 3-5 percent of the population in the United States. With a number so low there no wonder why so many people don’t know much about this group and why there are so many myth about his minority …show more content…
They could be happy the other way “Nobody would choose to be constantly at risk for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by strangers. No man who was basically in the social alpha group (straight and more or less white) would choose to deliberately make his life more difficult just for the hell of it.” Sernine Elliot (Elliot Serenine interview). This is one of the biggest myth that people believe about transgender. There are a lot of people that believe that no one is born in the wrong body. That transgender people just make it up. They couldn’t be more wrong about this. It might not be something we all understand, but these people know full well who they are, and that they have no other choice then to change to who they are supposed to
There are many reasons why this number can’t be fine. The main ones are though well never know just how many aren’t out. The other is the fact the term transgender is still a new term and something were still very much learning about. Though the best guess we have on the population of this minority group is around 700000 people (Williams Institute). That is roughly about 3-5 percent of the population in the United States. With a number so low there no wonder why so many people don’t know much about this group and why there are so many myth about his minority …show more content…
They could be happy the other way “Nobody would choose to be constantly at risk for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by strangers. No man who was basically in the social alpha group (straight and more or less white) would choose to deliberately make his life more difficult just for the hell of it.” Sernine Elliot (Elliot Serenine interview). This is one of the biggest myth that people believe about transgender. There are a lot of people that believe that no one is born in the wrong body. That transgender people just make it up. They couldn’t be more wrong about this. It might not be something we all understand, but these people know full well who they are, and that they have no other choice then to change to who they are supposed to