In 2008 an average of over two murders of transgender women took place in the U.S. every month, making the deadliest year for murders against Transgender Women. The murder rate in 2008 was a 33% increase over 2007 (Letellier 2008). This becomes a problem because people murder Transgender women just because they do not agree with their personality. Society should realize that murdering or even discriminating against transgender women is not right because being a transgender or not, every person is still human, and deserves the same rights as anybody else. However Transgender women are not give the same access and rights in society.
According to the Webster Dictionary transgender means a person appearing or attempting to be a member of the opposite sex, as a transsexual or habitual cross-dresser. Nowhere in the definition of transgender does it say that a transgender should be someone who gets discriminated or should be considered less just because of his/her sex preference. Many people do not seem to understand the actual definition and make up their own. The definition they come up with has to do with discrimination and making Trans women have low self-esteem in themselves. Transgender women have not been treated fairly just because of their sex preference. They have been considered not worth anything and not useful. A woman named Vicky Kolakowski is an example of discrimination of Transgender women. Kolakowski was elected as a judge. She was supported by many other Transgender women: “ I have received congratulatory emails from all over the world. It is very inspiring to me to see how much this evening means to people in places where it isn’t even safe to say that you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender” (Kolakowski 2011). Even though it was not safe for people to say they were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender that did not stop them from showing support. Kolakowski got support from Gwen Araujos family throughout her campaign (Kolakowski 2011). Gwen Araujo was a teenager who was murdered in Alameda County for being Transgender (Kolakowski 2011). The murder of Gwen is really important for Kolakowski. “One of the reasons that Gwens murder means so much to me personally is that I know that something like that could easily have happened to me as well. It was my good fortune, as well as my hard work, that kept me going” (Kolakowski 2011). Kolakowski was not the only transgender woman that succeeded in having a good job, another woman of the name Rasmussen succeeded as well. In Silverton , Oregon, a small town in northwest part of the state, population 6,900, garnered international attention in November by electing the first openly transgender mayor in the United States. Stu Rasmussen,60 won 1,988 of the 3,500 votes cast,beating his opponent by 400 votes (Letellier 2008). It's important because the definition of transgender has nothing to do with the treatment transgender women get. it's also important because it doesn't matter how a transgender women looks or dresses, they still become successful and overcome all the discrimination and stereotypes.
No one should decide what access a transgender woman should have just because of their sex preference. Many transgender women have to go through the discrimination of not being able to have a good job position because they are perceived as not capable of handling the job. Transgender is a word used to describe a person. Description has nothing to do with what a transgender women is capable of doing. Kolakowski a transgender woman who was elected to be a judge, tells the world in her speech “To this very day, if you read comments on the internet about my election, you'll find a few misguided people who say that i am unfit for this great responsibility because I am transgender”(Kolakowski 2011). She continues later, “However, to me the real news of my being here tonight is not that a transgender person was elected as judge, but that it was never an issue on the campaign” (Kolakowski 2011). Kolakowski proves that she never paid attention to what people have to say and continue her goal no matter what. She says in her speech “When I started out as an attorney over two decades ago, I encountered a lot of discomfort, subtle and sometimes even invidious discrimination” (Kolakowski 2011). This proves that it doesn't matter if a woman is transgender she still can succeed and proved she was capable of having a good job position. She succeeded by not letting the discrimination of being transgender stop her from becoming a judge. She fought until her dream got accomplish.
If a woman is transgender that does not mean her rights of being human being get taken away. Many women get their rights taken away because of their sex preference. At times they even get their lives taken away. Many women who are transgender get murder and no one seems to care or even worry about it. A woman known as Duanna Johnson survives an attack and filled a $1.3 million suit against the city. But on November 9 she was shot in the head and killed on a Memphis street (Letellier 2008). Three men were seen fleeing the scene, but no arrest have been made and the police have no suspects (Letellier 2008). The two officers who assaulted Johnson-James Swain and Bridges McRae-were fired from the police in June and in November McRae was indicted on civil rights charges for using “unreasonable force” in attacking Johnson (Letellier 2008). “Surely i'm not the only one who thinks one or both of these men killed Duanna Johnson. And now we’re supposed to trust that very same Memphis police department that brutalized her will investigate her murder and bring the killers to justice?please”(Letellier 2008). This proves that even police officers instead of protecting and supporting transgender women they made be part of the murdering.Young people get murdered as well and at times get set up by their own classmates just because of their sex preference. In Syracuse, New York, 22 year old Latiesha Green was shot and killed while sitting in a car with her brother in front of a friends house. According to WSYR-TV in Syracuse, Green and her brother Mark were invited to a party but when they pulled up in front of the house people objected to them being there because Latiesha is transgender and Mark is gay (Letellier 2008). In many parts of the world the murdering still goes on. In Aurora Colorado, the body of Aimee Wilcoxson , a 34-year-old transgender woman, was found in the bedroom of her home on November 3. The coroner has ruled the cause of Wilcoxson’s death as “undetermined,” pending toxicology test. Wilcoxson's friends told the press that she’d been complaining lately of methamphetamine addicts in her neighborhood and that she’d been followed home before (Letellier 2008). Many innocent peoples lives and rights get taken away. No one should murder or hurt someone just for being transgender. Being a human gives you the same human rights as anyone else no matter the sex preference and no one should try to stop them.
If it took murdering to change the world no one would be left to live. Murdering doesn't solve anything it just brings more problems, violence and hate to any part of the world. Some people might believe that with murdering every transgender the problem will get solve but murdering is not the right thing to do, it just brings pain to the family of the person they murder and the death rate goes up. This is also wrong because young people start to view the bad society they live in and it can cause them not to feel safe or tell the world who they really are as they are growing up. Homicide rates in other countries are equally disturbing. In the first six months of 2009, Trans people were reported killed in 17 countries around the world, 20 Tran’s people were reported killed in Venezuela, 10 in Guatemala and 5 in Turkey (Letellier 2009). A woman who was convicted in 2003 and imprisoned for her role in the death of women at an illegal silicone “Pumping Party” has been arrested for injecting silicone into other women (Letellier 2009). This woman did an unfair and wrong choice because she murders a lot of innocent women who did nothing bad or harmed no one. At the end the murdering was not even worth it because the murderer harmed herself mentally and ruined her life. She thought that by murdering every transgender women the world was going to change and the problem was going to get solved but there’s nothing wrong with being transgender. The police should show more support when cases like this occur. Murdering should never be a solution for nothing.
If a person wants to work, make money and is capable of doing the job right they should get hired and not by the way someone looks. Many jobs don't hire women because they are transgender. There can be times when a woman hides her sex preference if she wants to get hired or give a good impression. Companies care about their reputation and don't hire transgender people they think that it will give their company a bad reputation or they just don't like transgender people. Not all companies discriminate women; FedEx is an example of one. In a move that has rankled the far-right American Family Associates (always a good thing) FedEx the speedy world delivery company announced it will add gender identity to it's anti-discrimination hiring policies (Letellier 2009). The new policy brings FedEx in the line with many fortune 500 companies that offer similar protections, making it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in the workplace (Letellier 2009). Transgender women might feel hopeless and make at times maybe start to believe what they do is wrong and start believing all the stereotypes people say about them. There's always going to be a company that supports trans and will help them. In the world there are a lot of people who hate transgender and say it's wrong liking the same sex but there's also people who support them and are willing to help them out from the people that discriminate. A woman name Nicole Kidman is to produce and star in a film depicting the worlds first post-up transsexual woman according to the Hollywood reporter (Letellier 2008). This demonstrates that even famous people are transgender or will act in a movie like one to show that there's nothing wrong with being transgender. It also proves that by acting like a transgender it makes people get involved in seeing how a transgender person acts in life and chances that by watching a movie with a transgender person makes people think different about them and makes them realize that there just regular people like anybody else.
Being transgender is not a crime or nothing to be a shame of. People shouldnt give themselves the power to discriminate or even murder a transgender woman. Discrimination that transgender experience makes them not have the same access and rights in society. There considered not normal. This issue matters because everyone should have the same equal rights. Being transgender doesn't mean they shouldn't get the same opportunities as others. Until we as a society treat all people the same regarding the sexual preference we shouldnt be known as the country of freedom.
According to the Webster Dictionary transgender means a person appearing or attempting to be a member of the opposite sex, as a transsexual or habitual cross-dresser. Nowhere in the definition of transgender does it say that a transgender should be someone who gets discriminated or should be considered less just because of his/her sex preference. Many people do not seem to understand the actual definition and make up their own. The definition they come up with has to do with discrimination and making Trans women have low self-esteem in themselves. Transgender women have not been treated fairly just because of their sex preference. They have been considered not worth anything and not useful. A woman named Vicky Kolakowski is an example of discrimination of Transgender women. Kolakowski was elected as a judge. She was supported by many other Transgender women: “ I have received congratulatory emails from all over the world. It is very inspiring to me to see how much this evening means to people in places where it isn’t even safe to say that you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender” (Kolakowski 2011). Even though it was not safe for people to say they were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender that did not stop them from showing support. Kolakowski got support from Gwen Araujos family throughout her campaign (Kolakowski 2011). Gwen Araujo was a teenager who was murdered in Alameda County for being Transgender (Kolakowski 2011). The murder of Gwen is really important for Kolakowski. “One of the reasons that Gwens murder means so much to me personally is that I know that something like that could easily have happened to me as well. It was my good fortune, as well as my hard work, that kept me going” (Kolakowski 2011). Kolakowski was not the only transgender woman that succeeded in having a good job, another woman of the name Rasmussen succeeded as well. In Silverton , Oregon, a small town in northwest part of the state, population 6,900, garnered international attention in November by electing the first openly transgender mayor in the United States. Stu Rasmussen,60 won 1,988 of the 3,500 votes cast,beating his opponent by 400 votes (Letellier 2008). It's important because the definition of transgender has nothing to do with the treatment transgender women get. it's also important because it doesn't matter how a transgender women looks or dresses, they still become successful and overcome all the discrimination and stereotypes.
No one should decide what access a transgender woman should have just because of their sex preference. Many transgender women have to go through the discrimination of not being able to have a good job position because they are perceived as not capable of handling the job. Transgender is a word used to describe a person. Description has nothing to do with what a transgender women is capable of doing. Kolakowski a transgender woman who was elected to be a judge, tells the world in her speech “To this very day, if you read comments on the internet about my election, you'll find a few misguided people who say that i am unfit for this great responsibility because I am transgender”(Kolakowski 2011). She continues later, “However, to me the real news of my being here tonight is not that a transgender person was elected as judge, but that it was never an issue on the campaign” (Kolakowski 2011). Kolakowski proves that she never paid attention to what people have to say and continue her goal no matter what. She says in her speech “When I started out as an attorney over two decades ago, I encountered a lot of discomfort, subtle and sometimes even invidious discrimination” (Kolakowski 2011). This proves that it doesn't matter if a woman is transgender she still can succeed and proved she was capable of having a good job position. She succeeded by not letting the discrimination of being transgender stop her from becoming a judge. She fought until her dream got accomplish.
If a woman is transgender that does not mean her rights of being human being get taken away. Many women get their rights taken away because of their sex preference. At times they even get their lives taken away. Many women who are transgender get murder and no one seems to care or even worry about it. A woman known as Duanna Johnson survives an attack and filled a $1.3 million suit against the city. But on November 9 she was shot in the head and killed on a Memphis street (Letellier 2008). Three men were seen fleeing the scene, but no arrest have been made and the police have no suspects (Letellier 2008). The two officers who assaulted Johnson-James Swain and Bridges McRae-were fired from the police in June and in November McRae was indicted on civil rights charges for using “unreasonable force” in attacking Johnson (Letellier 2008). “Surely i'm not the only one who thinks one or both of these men killed Duanna Johnson. And now we’re supposed to trust that very same Memphis police department that brutalized her will investigate her murder and bring the killers to justice?please”(Letellier 2008). This proves that even police officers instead of protecting and supporting transgender women they made be part of the murdering.Young people get murdered as well and at times get set up by their own classmates just because of their sex preference. In Syracuse, New York, 22 year old Latiesha Green was shot and killed while sitting in a car with her brother in front of a friends house. According to WSYR-TV in Syracuse, Green and her brother Mark were invited to a party but when they pulled up in front of the house people objected to them being there because Latiesha is transgender and Mark is gay (Letellier 2008). In many parts of the world the murdering still goes on. In Aurora Colorado, the body of Aimee Wilcoxson , a 34-year-old transgender woman, was found in the bedroom of her home on November 3. The coroner has ruled the cause of Wilcoxson’s death as “undetermined,” pending toxicology test. Wilcoxson's friends told the press that she’d been complaining lately of methamphetamine addicts in her neighborhood and that she’d been followed home before (Letellier 2008). Many innocent peoples lives and rights get taken away. No one should murder or hurt someone just for being transgender. Being a human gives you the same human rights as anyone else no matter the sex preference and no one should try to stop them.
If it took murdering to change the world no one would be left to live. Murdering doesn't solve anything it just brings more problems, violence and hate to any part of the world. Some people might believe that with murdering every transgender the problem will get solve but murdering is not the right thing to do, it just brings pain to the family of the person they murder and the death rate goes up. This is also wrong because young people start to view the bad society they live in and it can cause them not to feel safe or tell the world who they really are as they are growing up. Homicide rates in other countries are equally disturbing. In the first six months of 2009, Trans people were reported killed in 17 countries around the world, 20 Tran’s people were reported killed in Venezuela, 10 in Guatemala and 5 in Turkey (Letellier 2009). A woman who was convicted in 2003 and imprisoned for her role in the death of women at an illegal silicone “Pumping Party” has been arrested for injecting silicone into other women (Letellier 2009). This woman did an unfair and wrong choice because she murders a lot of innocent women who did nothing bad or harmed no one. At the end the murdering was not even worth it because the murderer harmed herself mentally and ruined her life. She thought that by murdering every transgender women the world was going to change and the problem was going to get solved but there’s nothing wrong with being transgender. The police should show more support when cases like this occur. Murdering should never be a solution for nothing.
If a person wants to work, make money and is capable of doing the job right they should get hired and not by the way someone looks. Many jobs don't hire women because they are transgender. There can be times when a woman hides her sex preference if she wants to get hired or give a good impression. Companies care about their reputation and don't hire transgender people they think that it will give their company a bad reputation or they just don't like transgender people. Not all companies discriminate women; FedEx is an example of one. In a move that has rankled the far-right American Family Associates (always a good thing) FedEx the speedy world delivery company announced it will add gender identity to it's anti-discrimination hiring policies (Letellier 2009). The new policy brings FedEx in the line with many fortune 500 companies that offer similar protections, making it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in the workplace (Letellier 2009). Transgender women might feel hopeless and make at times maybe start to believe what they do is wrong and start believing all the stereotypes people say about them. There's always going to be a company that supports trans and will help them. In the world there are a lot of people who hate transgender and say it's wrong liking the same sex but there's also people who support them and are willing to help them out from the people that discriminate. A woman name Nicole Kidman is to produce and star in a film depicting the worlds first post-up transsexual woman according to the Hollywood reporter (Letellier 2008). This demonstrates that even famous people are transgender or will act in a movie like one to show that there's nothing wrong with being transgender. It also proves that by acting like a transgender it makes people get involved in seeing how a transgender person acts in life and chances that by watching a movie with a transgender person makes people think different about them and makes them realize that there just regular people like anybody else.
Being transgender is not a crime or nothing to be a shame of. People shouldnt give themselves the power to discriminate or even murder a transgender woman. Discrimination that transgender experience makes them not have the same access and rights in society. There considered not normal. This issue matters because everyone should have the same equal rights. Being transgender doesn't mean they shouldn't get the same opportunities as others. Until we as a society treat all people the same regarding the sexual preference we shouldnt be known as the country of freedom.