About Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Transgender Day of Remembrance marks the murder of transgender woman Rita Hester on November 28, 1998. It is a day to remember those killed for being transgender.
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Approximately 1.4 million people refer to themselves as transgender worldwide (0.00175%). However, this number increased exponentially in Western cultures (1900% in the United Kingdom alone by 2022), specifically within Generation Z (those born between 1997-2012) beginning in 2010, coinciding with the advent and increase in social media platform ease and reach.

WHAT IS TRANSGENDER?

A trans-woman is a biological-at-birth man who wants to or has gender transitioned into presenting as female.

A trans-man is a biological-at-birth woman who wants to or has gender transitioned into presenting as a man.

Transgender exists on the "gender spectrum," a version of Alfred Kinsey's "Kinsey Scale," which measures sexuality in stages between 100% heterosexual and 100% homosexual.

"Queer theory" is a thesis by a dishonored French philosopher who argued there was no such thing as male and female. Instead, he contented sexuality is a relative construct of gender interpretation.

Transgender people mentally and/or physically alter their presentation to coordinate with their feelings and beliefs. This change is referred to in the community as "gender transitioning." "Gender-affirming care" is how the trans community describes the medical process of changing a person's visible sexuality. It requires deploying one or more of the following tools (in most cases for the rest of their life):

Operations
Social engagement
Pronouns
Hormone therapy.

These tools allow a person to change appearance, activity, and presentation from female to male or male to female. Transgender people typically dress to represent the sex they believe they should be.

BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRANS AND NON TRANS

At birth, babies are attributed sex based upon tens of thousands of years old universally accepted biological definitions. Queer theory disputes this science and its practice. The trans community considers a person's biological sex an arbitrary allocation, calling it their "assigned gender." They believe each person decides the gender they want to be, what the trans community terms their "authentic gender."

Hormones, behaviors, and surgery can alter many physical, behavioral, and cognitive traits. However, surgery and hormones cannot change DNA, chromosomes, and the physical ability to become pregnant or impregnate a person of the opposite sex via copulation. A trans-woman will never get pregnant naturally, ovulate, menstruate, go through female menopause, experience ovarian or cervical cancer, endometriosis, or other diseases specific to female reproductive organs.

Concurrently, a trans man will never naturally impregnate a woman, create sperm or deal with prostate or testicular cancer.

THE LANGUAGE & SOCIETY'S REACTION

Some language surrounding queer theory, including "declaring your pronouns" and "cisgender," manifested in the early 1990s on trans message boards. With smartphones, social media, and the internet, queer theory, its language, and ideas rapidly gained adherents during the twenty-teens.

During the early 2020s, the language evolved in an attempt to redefine standard English terminology. The words "father," "mother," "ladies," "gentlemen," "women," "men," "girls," and "boys" are considered discriminatory or non-inclusive in a genderless world. Women are currently referred to as "chest feeders," "people who menstruate," "pregnant people," and persons with a "bonus hole." The movement puts forth these terms to confer its version of inclusivity. Many women find this language increasingly offensive, identity stripping, gender-erasing, exclusionary, and contrary to the fight for the rights of women many strove for over the past 50 years. The language and redefining of women is a primary reason the trans issue is contentious. Women's safety, ability to compete fairly in sports and business, and the irreversible impact on children's health are additional points of contention.

NON-BINARY VS TRANS

Often confused with trans is non-binary. A non-binary person feels male on some days and female on others and presents differently depending upon the day. Non-binary people have not transitioned.

Ultimately, both sides of this issue are populated with human beings entitled to and deserving respect for who they are, their beliefs, traditions, arguments, fears, wants, and desires.
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We've included three videos below that present both sides of this socially divisive issue. One is from the point of view of the trans community, voiced by trans person. The second is an academic and professional medical look at the issue. It encapsulates why many are concerned and why Europe is dialing back authenticating transition among children without thorough psychological counseling, parental knowledge, and consent.. The third is is the full 2:15:00 July 28, 2023 C-Span recording of the Congressional hearing on Gender-affirming care.