controversial thoughts n opinions

Being Transgender

I'll  be very honest, I don't understand what it means to be Transgender.

How can a person want to be of another gender?

Or how can they claim to be some other gender?

How can a person hate their body so much and want to change it?

I don't understand it.

But does that mean I'm going to stop them from doing it? No.

Does that mean I'm going to use violence to hurt them and make them like me, discriminate against them, take away their rights and safety?

Definitely not.

Unless its harming me in any way, I don't see why its wrong?

I have a trans friend, she's an activist. She's not from a very well off background, so she's a very easy target for violence.

She has to face violence in her day to day life. If it doesn't sound scary enough, let me tell you, even last month she was attacked on a train, someone kept on banging her head screaming for her to die while hurling insults at her.

And you know, no one in train helped her.

She's scared to walk up the streets, She's scared to go out of her house or even stay inside.

Sometime back, she told me someone had set fire to her house.

These are not fictious tales, its a reality.

People need to understand that just because you don't understand something, or its different from what you know, it doesn't mean you will meet it with violence, discrimination or correction.

Unless its harming you or anyone in any way, I don't see the reason to?

This is not just for transgender people, its applies to all.

Be it another religion, or culture or anything of that sort.

You might be a muslim and not understand how people may eat pork but does that mean you should ban pork? No.

Or you might be a hindu and not understand how people can eat beef, but does that mean you can ban beef? No.

You might be of another culture where people don't eat meat at all but does that mean you will ban meat? No.

This is what people must understand.

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