Anaya Alcantara journal 6

“Transgender” is an umbrella term that describes people whose gender identity or expression does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. In the reading, Jonson explains that Transgender is considered an inaccurate presentation of their gender identity.  Some people have faced discrimination before due to their nationality, their backgrounds root, and in this case gender, even though none of the things said above are reasons for a person to look at you or treat you differently from them. Its been decades, since transgenders have managed themselves in society, and society still does not get used to treating them equally. On the other hand, if we speak about privilege, I think it’s very obvious. Cisgender is important when it comes to forms of privilege, for example having a government-issued identification representing your identity or not been questioned about your breasts being fake or just not have to think about gender presentation. What CeCe went through, being the victim was never seen as something that mattered to them, refusing to give medical treatment, her serving her time in men’s prison let us know how big the ignorance and suffering of trans* and person of color at the same time while Schmitz’s had a background of physical assault and others, McDonald was more judged by being a person of color and her capacity. If it were not because of privilege, today her story would have been different. It is impossible to hide how having privileges can denigrate the value of another person. Our skin color, sexual orientation, social class can inhibit us from so many important things but also from things as simple as even the way they look at you and consider you different as if you did not have the same value as a person.