Gender non-conforming individuals undoubtedly are one of the most degraded people in our society, it is even worse now. I know many will argue with me with the statements that, “Ow! But many of the non-conforming, transgender, queer people etc. are getting recognition everywhere”. Yes, they are, and indeed a very good way of diverging. However, I kind of beg to differ. If you pay close attention statistically to the news and report data, you will learn of the countless abuse done against the Lgbtq community. Day in day out, we hear of different circumstances of non-conforming gender being attacked on the way to their homes, on subways, workplaces and even schools. And as if that is not enough, these are individuals who have come into terms with their sexuality and accepted themselves for who they are, yet they continue to endure ill-mannered looks and criticism in the society. 

Nonbinary people are individuals who are neither exclusively men nor women, whereas gender non-conforming people defy society’s comprehension of what a man or woman should like. They are amongst groups of people who are frequently disrespected and humiliated. There is this constant thin margin of people tolerating gender non-conforming people and acknowledging their presence. It’s like this pandemic. It is one thing to know there is a deadly pandemic and the other is to know and partake in very necessary actions to help yourself and your neighbors at large. 

An issue that I think leads to these situations are the misrepresentations of this said group. The right information is not given by the media. There was this short film I watched about the misinterpretation of transgenders, especially by news/ movie channels. It is stated that an American spends an average time of four hours watching television. Now, imagine you switch your tv on, “oh! It is a crime investigation show”, well in the show or film, someone has been brutally murdered, it is a female. The investigators come to the crime scene to access the situation. They touch her as “part” of their strategies, after thorough analysis, they release it’s actually a man. The person who was doing so proceeds to put his hand on his mouth with a gagging gesture. What is being represented here? What is the idea of respect and humanity being promoted here? This is the kind of story that is put out there. You would barely watch a movie and the trans male or female is the hero, he or she is either a villain or an idiot who gets killed off before the movie end. This unfortunately just a tip of the ice burg of what gender nonbinary, nonconforming individuals encounter.