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Being A Transgender in Trump’s Era

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Being A Transgender in Trump’s Era

The sex organ of a person decides the gender of a person, but in reality, it is the psychology of a person that determines the actual gender. The gender movement advocates the psychology of people rather than the sex organs. According to the campaign, it is the feeling of a person that determines the gender. The feelings of a person in most cases is evident, so they feel discrimination all their life. However, recent development has changed that perception in many countries. Many people support the ideas of transgender people even when they don't belong to the community. The ideals of these forward-thinking people are now changing the perception regarding the transgender people and how the law treats them. With this new perception, the idea, regulations, and rights of transgender people have now become a further debate. America took great strides in discussing the rights of the LGBT community and ending the discrimination against the community (Perry & McCormick, 2015). The law of equality has enabled the Transgender people to get married and have a legal status of marriage. Everything was going well, the discrimination was ending, and Transgender people in America were freer than ever before. With the rise of Trump administration, everything changed, and many laws were changed to create loopholes for discrimination.

The Supreme Court has given the order to bar the transgender people from serving in the military. The local Courts resisted the decision for many years. The baring has prevented local government from blocking the anti-discriminatory approach towards the transgender people (Cahill & Makadon, 2017). The guidelines regarding the rights of transgender people to use the bathrooms fitting with their gender identity also changed (Archibald, 2017). The justification for barring transgender people was given in the form of medical cost, and it was stated that due to the increased cost of medicine the transgender people serving in the military would increase the serving cost. According to the reports it was noted that the military spend more money on Viagra than it does on the medical care related to the transition ((Barry, 2018)). The approach was discriminatory, and there is no solid fact behind the baring of transgender people from the military. The sole purpose of this baring is to take away the civil rights from certain people based on their gender identity and sexual orientation.

The discrimination does not just stop there as Trump admiration is changing policies for a government institution that are directly affecting the Transgender people through various aspects of their life. On May 11, 2018, the Bureau of Prisons in the Department of Justice adopted the policy of housing the transgender individual into the prisons that are aligned with the sex of their birth (Malkin & DeJong, 2018). The discrimination will not only impact the transgender people socially but personally as well. The decision could prove dangerous for many transgender people, and the chance of their rape in prison would increase to a large extent. The transgender community will not be safe in prison, and many of them will have to go through great physiological stress which could harm their overall physiological status. The increased discrimination against transgender people by Trump administration has impacted even the medical care of such individual (Wilson, 2018). According to the Department of Health and Human Services has made it legal for the medical providers to bar the transgender from being treated on the religious ground.

The initiatives have been challenged in many states by different social workers. The legislature of North Carolina has revoked the law that forced the transgender people to use the public bathrooms that are aligned with their gender identity. The aggressive approach taken by trump administration has increased the hate crimes against the transgender people. The steps that were taken to give the right to the transgender people have made a huge step backward with the rise of Trump Administration.

References

Cahill, S. R., & Makadon, H. J. (2017). If they don't count us, we don't count: Trump administration rolls back sexual orientation and gender identity data collection. LGBT health, 4(3), 171-173.

Archibald, C. J. (2017). Transgender Bathroom Rights in the Time of Trump. Tenn. J. Race Gender & Soc. Just., 6, 241.

Perry, R. K., & McCormick, J. P. (2015). LGBT Politics and Rights through the Obama Era: President Barack Obama’s Evolution on LGBT Issues. In Race in the Age of Obama: Part 2 (pp. 49-75). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Malkin, M. L., & DeJong, C. (2018). Protections for Transgender Inmates Under PREA: a Comparison of State Correctional Policies in the United States. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-15.

Barry, A. R. (2018). Transgender Service Members & Decision Making Deference to the United States Military. DUKE J. GENDER L. & POL’Y, 249, 253-54.

Wilson, R. F. (2018). Being Transgender in the Era of Trump: Compassion Should Pick Up Where Science Leaves Off. UC Irvine L. Rev., 8, 583.