Since most people believe transgender do not face true discrimination they do not think they deserve rights protected by laws; however, transgender face just as much discrimination for being who they truly as any other minority group, so therefore, they should be allowed to have government laws protecting their rights from being discriminated against just like any other minority group. That being said, the transgender movement has existed since the ‘50s trying to gain rights and recognition for their cause. Since the movement started there have been thousands of deaths in the transgender community caused by people who discriminate against transgenders. So many lives that there is a Transgender Day of Remembrance in the transgender community
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have started taking steps to include transgender people under existing non- discrimination protections (Human Rights Campaign ). For example, “only 18 states and the District of Columbia prohibit employment and housing discrimination based on gender identity; only 17 states and the District of Columbia prohibit discrimination based on gender identity in public accommodations; and only 15 states and the District of Columbia prohibit discrimination based on gender identity in education.”(Human Rights Campaign ) The transgender community has yet to receive a law passed in favour of their movement. The only way they have some federal protection is by extending currently existing non- discrimination laws to include gender identity. Laws like the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which is an amendment of the 1969 U.S hate-crime law, was signed in to law in 2009 is not solely a law for transgender people in includes sexual orientation, which tends to overshadow the transgender movement (Procyk ). If the government does not openly identify the transgender community and their movement, then the rest of society will not take the transgender community’s plead for non- discriminatory laws as seriously and not support their cause. Therefore, people need to recognize the severity of what transgender men and women face on the day to day basis; They face getting bullying, beat up, sometimes killed for being who they truly are or they face unemployment, poverty, even jail time too, simply because they identify as another gender than what they were biologically. This sort of discrimination has been fought by several other minority groups, such as, African Americans, Asian, and any other non- White races, even women and gays have faced this discrimination and received laws to protect their rights from being taken
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have started taking steps to include transgender people under existing non- discrimination protections (Human Rights Campaign ). For example, “only 18 states and the District of Columbia prohibit employment and housing discrimination based on gender identity; only 17 states and the District of Columbia prohibit discrimination based on gender identity in public accommodations; and only 15 states and the District of Columbia prohibit discrimination based on gender identity in education.”(Human Rights Campaign ) The transgender community has yet to receive a law passed in favour of their movement. The only way they have some federal protection is by extending currently existing non- discrimination laws to include gender identity. Laws like the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which is an amendment of the 1969 U.S hate-crime law, was signed in to law in 2009 is not solely a law for transgender people in includes sexual orientation, which tends to overshadow the transgender movement (Procyk ). If the government does not openly identify the transgender community and their movement, then the rest of society will not take the transgender community’s plead for non- discriminatory laws as seriously and not support their cause. Therefore, people need to recognize the severity of what transgender men and women face on the day to day basis; They face getting bullying, beat up, sometimes killed for being who they truly are or they face unemployment, poverty, even jail time too, simply because they identify as another gender than what they were biologically. This sort of discrimination has been fought by several other minority groups, such as, African Americans, Asian, and any other non- White races, even women and gays have faced this discrimination and received laws to protect their rights from being taken