Reflective Tag

Being transgender in this country is very taboo and is often frowned upon because it conflicts with peoples idea of gender roles. Robert Eads transgender man who was faced a lot of this gender discrimination especially when it came to hospital care. We have come a long way from a long time ago but this discrimination is still way too common.

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Transgenders are still discriminated against in this country even when it comes to hospitals. Robert Eads was turned down by a dozen doctors who claimed that taking him in would hurt their business. It turns out that Robert Eads had ovarian cancer and it wasn’t until a year afterward that he was finally accepted for treatment. In spite of the aggressive treatment he received he ended up dying at the age of 53.

The point of this movie was that just because you were born a certain sex doesn’t mean that you have to have a gender that corresponds to it. It is because we made these gender roles that there is a problem today and people who don’t meet the gender roles they were assigned are seen as different from everyone else. Sexual orientation also has nothing to do with being transgender, they do it because they don’t feel comfortable with who they are.

This is an issue that should have been eradicated by now but humans have trouble accepting things that are different from them. Another reason why people are more critical of transgenders is because they choose to change their gender as opposed to gay or differently colored people. The transgender community is also a lot more quiet in that you don’t notice them as much. People aren’t able to understand the reasons behind it because they don’t think the same way so it makes it harder to make a sympathetic point. I have faith though that in a few more generations that this idea of discrimination will eventually be eradicated for good.