The dust has settled in regards to Donald Trump’s ruling on
the rights of transgender individuals. I
already spoke about how this outcome could potentially affect business owners
as well as everyone else. Now I want to
speak about the steps transgender individuals can take in order fight back
against an unjust president.
The first step that should be undertaken is to get all of
one’s legal matters straightened out as soon as possible. It is understandable that some states still
make it difficult for those who wish to change their names and gender markers
on documents that show identification.
An individual should do what he or she can to get everything changed
before the laws get any worse. Pressure
can be good thing sometimes because it forces people to be vigilant about what they
truly care about. My job is what
prompted me to legalize the changes that I was making. If the pressure from my employer had not
pushed me to live more authentically, then I might have still been too afraid
to have done anything at all.
The next step that one can take that one can take to combat
Trump’s reversal of rights is to join groups in different fields of knowledge. Marches are not going to do too much except
express outrage and anger. Joining
groups in the legal, medical, and technological fields would be a better use of
people’s time and resources. Getting
everyone’s stories out there in order to educate other will be a more tactful
way that the transgender population can get all of their rights returned to
them.
The most crucial step that needs to be taken to ensure that
laws regarding rights will include everyone is to stop fighting one
another. Some transgender people within
the community like to police others on how to transition in the “proper”
fashion. No one needs to be fighting one
another about who is truly transgender.
Everyone is in this together.
Transgender is an umbrella term.
This term includes crossdressers, drag queens, genderqueer, agender,
bigender, transsexuals, and androgynous people.
One size does not fit all in the case of transgenderism. There is no such thing as being “truly
trans.” People are either transgender,
or they are not. It is as simple as
that. The degree might vary from one
person to another, but there is no such thing as being a fake transgender
individual.
If the entire country can begin to follow these three steps,
then there will be no foothold for Trump’s ruling to take root. The ruling will only have power if we remain
divided as a nation. If everyone comes
together, then nothing negative will be able to have an impact on anyone. Every person can choose what his or her
destiny will be. The hard part is having
enough courage to stand by one’s convictions.
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