The film that I watched was “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” by David France. Marsha P. Johnson was an African American transgender activist who played essential roles in the Stonewall Riots and the gay-rights movement. Her body was found in the Hudson River in 1992, and while the police labeled her death a suicide, many in the community believe she was murdered. Johnson represented a thread to those with a limited mindset. Those that believe that “biology is destiny,” this is the way nature intended. However, this view fails to account for human intervention. As human beings, we have an impact on the social arrangements of society. Transgender and other LGBTQ groups have been oppressed and dehumanize through history. One example of this is CeCe Mcdonald; she was bullied and dehumanized by people that considered themselves as “normal.” McDonald was arrested and charged with second-degree intentional murder all because she tried to defend herself. It all started when a group of at least four white people outside a bar began harassing McDonald and her friends, calling the group, all of whom were African American, “niggers”, “faggots” and even saying “look at that boy dressed like a girl tucking her dick in. It is very evident that McDonald’s was a victim was, and it was never seen as a big deal, refusing to give medical treatment. Because she is transgender, it was automatically assumed that McDonald will be sent to a men’s prison. The state did its own determination of McDonald’s gender showing the ignorance and suffering of African American transgender.
Furthermore, people who consider themselves as normal most definitively has privilege compare to someone who identify themselves as transgender. The terms utilized like cis sexual orientation is alluded to an individual recognizing as the sex they were relegated during childbirth. In the perusing, it discussed the benefit of cissexual orientation individuals and trans. The individuals who decided to be named as cissexual orientation have a superior possibility of being acknowledged and called ordinary instead of being marked extraordinary. This proves that the oppression and discrimination of normal people toward transgender have led to many issues in society when it comes to equality for the trans community. It is unfortunate for the assaults and crimes that are targeted against the LGBTQ community. We, as a society, need to become more aware of the ways in which gender is created, maintained. How it is changed through cultural expectations, that is why it varies with different cultures and interactions. This plays a massive part in the way we all communicate because we all participate in helping creating norms and expectations. Not only that, but society also creates expectations that are very limited, and it excludes some people that identify differently. Moreover, society has created social assumptions/ stereotypes that have dehumanize and devalue women opinions and other minority groups like the transgender community.
