By Emily Matthews, Year 10
Transgender is a pretty common concept to our generation, along with gay, straight, asexual, bi, and all the other types of sexuality/gender. So why do some people have a problem with that? About 0.6% of U.S adults identify as transgender. That’s 1,954,200 people. That’s nearly two million people.
Trump is trying to slowly revoke the rights of nearly two million people.
Currently, he is narrowly considering defining gender as a biological condition, controlled by your birth. Trump has already implemented a plan for the ban on transgender military services. The Department of Education announced it will “dismiss complaints from transgender students involving exclusion from school facilities and other claims based solely on gender identity discrimination”.
Gender is widely considered something you choose for yourself. Why should birth define who you are?
The Department of Health and Human Services is leading the effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX. Title IX is the civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that are funded by the government, according to the New York Times. The proposed definition would define sex as male or female, judging by what kind of genitals you were born with.
Each person has the right to choose who they love, what sex they are, who they are.
Who has the right to take away what they want to do, whether that be transitioning as a girl or boy, join the military, love the same sex?
