Argument Against Transgender Rights

Transgender Rights To be transgender means to be the opposite of the predictable notions of being male or female. People coming out as transgender is something that is beginning to be more common in society today. Currently, transgender people face discrimination or even bullying in school. Most citizens who are transgender are confronted with poverty because employers avoid hiring those who are transgender. Transgender students face bullying in school and often attempt to commit suicide. Transgender citizens should have more rights protecting them because of higher suicide risks, discrimination, and poverty due to the unemployment rate of those who are transgender. According to the Educational Law Journal, gender identity is developed in the brain and could already be resolute before a baby is ever born. It is a mistaken belief that children start to feel like a boy or girl at the age of nine. They …show more content…
They face discrimination such as employment, housing, and health care discrimination. The National Transgender Discrimination Survey indicated that twenty-six percent of transgendered people lost their jobs because they are transgender and ninety-seven percent were mistreated at work. Another issue that transgender citizens face is housing instability. Survey respondents encountered negative outcomes which arise from challenges they come in contact with in employment. Factors that they face could be having to find different places to sleep for short periods of time, having to move back in with family members and friends, becoming homeless, and being kicked out of homes. Along with not being employed, the access to health care of a transgender person is impacted. The National Transgender Discrimination Survey showed that sixty-two percent of the general population had access to employer-based insurance verses forty percent of all transgender