Some vocab for y'all before you continue reading...
Sex and Gender and 2 very different things. Sex is what you're born with aka vagina vs penis (unless you're intersex). Gender is what you identify with. If you're cis-gendered, then your gender and sex "match." You have the privilege of either having a vagina and identifying as a female or having a penis and identifying as a male. Transgender (other terms include, but not limited to transsexual, genderqueer), according to Glaad (a great organization that helps those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community), is a term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex the doctor marked on their birth certificate. Last year, I didn't understand those who preferred the pronouns "they/their" and/or people who were gender non-conforming/ non-binary. Since I didn't understand, I judged. Now I get it and realized that, as someone who is cis-gendered, it's not my place to decide not to respect in someone's pronouns. Today it angers me when people "don't believe" that someone is actually trans, "doing it for attention," or just being a "fake b*tch." If you're cis, you have no right to not call someone by their preferred pronouns. Many youth grow up not knowing what transgender is and feeling uncomfortable for most of their life. Others don't feel it's safe to come out yet and some can't even afford hormone therapy or gender reassignment surgery for them to fully transition or are even too young! I once heard someone say, "I'm sorry, but if you have a penis - you're a guy and if you have a vagina - you're a girl." But once again, many are too young to get reassignment surgery and hormone therapy costs around $1,500 per year according to Teen Vogue. Cisgendered friends!!! Please don't determine, by yourself, that those who prefer to be called by different pronouns are invalid just because you "don't believe it" or it "doesn't make sense." It's Suck it up and educate yourself!
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FEMINISMthe advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes |