Normalizing Transgender Research Paper

Normalizing Transgender

Transgender individuals have been at war for years, fighting for equal rights that are so readily available to those who are "normal". These rights that we may take for granted everyday like employment, wages and even acceptance in society. In a passage from Imagining Transgender by David Valentine, he writes about a woman by the name of Holly Boswell who advocated for a position of cross-gender identification, she challenged the notion of normality by saying that transgender was an alternate to the binary genders we know. If what Boswell believes was believed by everyone, the gap between genders wouldn 't exist, there would be no inequality, but that is not true today in our society. We do have gaps and there are lines drawn separating what is accepted as normal and what is not.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act is Long Over Due

Transgender people often encounter similar discrimination 's that Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexual people encounter, yet it is often worse for the
It also states that religious based employment may be discriminate on the basis of their religious beliefs. In order for there to be equality in the work place there needs to be no gender discrimination of any kind. President Obama recently signed two executive orders and commenced April 8th 2014 "National Equal Pay Day" This order helps close the gender gap in wages and highlights the need to extend similar similar protection for LGB and transgender Americans. It is hopeful that this order will help end discrimination among federal contractors. As for all of the other issues that transgenders still face, it is only hopeful that we will grow into a society that is more open minded and