The Pros And Cons Of Being Transgender

Did you know that approximately 41% of transgender people attempt suicide? This number is only approximate because so many transgenders are still “in the closet” about their identity, so in actuality, this number is a lot higher. There’s no reason for this number to be so high, because they are people too. They are not “those things” or “it’s”, they are simply another human being trying to figure out their identity. Many cisgendered (or people identifying as the gender they were assigned to at birth) people don’t understand the struggles of transgender people; the stress of transition, the pressure to follow with what their peers want, even physical harm comes their way. In summary, they way transgender people are treated by other peers in …show more content…
Sure, you can be a “tomboy” or a “momma’s boy”, but none of those boil down to being the wrong gender. When looking through the results for my poll, under the question to explain what being transgender means, many people put down some form of “It is crossdressing”. This is another issue that we need to cover with our children, or even in a school setting. Being transgender does not mean being a crossdresser. Someone who is a crossdresser is simply someone who enjoys wearing the clothing of the gender that is not theirs. Being transgender is a desire to be another gender. It is not to be confused with transexual, though, as those are people who have gone through the transition with the change of sex. A misconception of transgender people is that they are all homosexual. But, obviously, if they identify as a male, and are dating a female, isn’t that a heterosexual relationship? By stating that they are a homosexual, you are misgendering them, and possibly causing them a great deal of harm, as misgendering is a category of verbal abuse. By calling someone the wrong gender, you could potentially trigger them to think of a time in their lives where they were much more