Summary: Federal Anti-Discrimination Laws

Many of us are out of touch with our fellow citizen's hardships and do not acknowledge the lack of opportunity that exists for some of the least privileged members of our communities and fails to recognize the great adversity they face. There should be more federal anti-discrimination laws to protect the civil rights of all transgender people especially in public settings such as schools, athletics, and employment. Today many young transgender men and women face debilitating discrimination on a daily basis at all levels and sectors of life. For many of them, the disparaging and hateful discrimination can start at a young age in school and haunt them into their adulthood when seeking employment even when they are just as or more qualified as …show more content…
Many transgender people decide to participate in sport but are discriminated against because other people sometimes question whether those transgender individuals are using their choice of self-identity as a way to cheat or not in their sport. For example, in the article “Dueling with Dualisms” (“Chapter 1: Dueling Dualisms- EBSCOhost”,web.10 Apr.2017.) in the 1988 Olympics, a woman by the name of Maria Patino was supposed to compete in the women’s hurdle events but she was questioned by the International Olympic Committee for her gender. Maria ended up not being able to compete in the 1988 Olympics because of the discovery of a Y chromosome in her cells. The gender in which Maria identified as was female even though her sex was a cross between both male and female. Maria is a perfect example of how transgenders are discriminated in athletics because she did not get to choose the sex that she was born with. However, she wanted to identify as a female and people need to accept and respect her for that. There need to be more laws in favor of protecting the rights and the eligibility of transgender men and women participating in sport because it is not their fault and they cannot help it if the sex in which they were born with is both male and female. They should be accepted and respected by the public for the way in which they choose to self-identify as. Many incredibly talented transgender athletes have been banned from participating in sport because of the sex that they were born with and they cannot help that as that is the way that they were born. There need to be more laws enforced that protect the rights and the eligibility of transgender athletes participating in