The basis of Society’s term, of what gender should be categorized has distorted the beauty in diversity. From the readings before, we gain knowledge on what society considers to be the correct and actual genders. What you should do and how you should behave on account of that classification. However, here is the situation where gender non-conforming people, trans individual condemn those values, traditions and norms that has been put forth and passed down from generation to generation. In the past, in certain tribes, it was actually forbidden or a taboo to do certain things “the other gender” was mandated to do. It was an insult would be punishable set regulations. One thing I put in mind is, our predecessors and human beings were those that made these rules and we can unmake them. We have to be just and considerate, and most importantly not temper with information. It all contributes to misrepresentation. In a way, I feel like those who can help these situations are aware of these but would prefer to do nothing. According to the reading, there are some states that have enforced laws which in every way does not favor gender nonbinary, non-conforming people. It is very dehumanizing. Nothing justifies dragging someone, stripping them of their clothes or hitting individuals because they are not “dressed the way they are supposed to”. Some people go beyond that by recording what they do. They post their videos, and they get commended for dehumanizing someone. Regardless of how a person acts or dresses, he or she does not deserve the kind of humiliation that is endure on numerous encounters.
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