Understanding transgender conundrum must begin with making clear distinction between the following fundamental terms sex and gender. Many people knowledgeable or not refer to both terms interchangeably. In essence they consider the two terms to have the same meaning while mostly because of lack of a reason to think otherwise. People who face a lifelong body dissonance understand that the two terms are different and do not carry the same meaning.
Sex is the actual physical state of being either male or female, it is a biological aspect of the body based on chromosomes. Gender on the other hand is the behavioral, psychological and cultural traits typical to one’s sex. Gender represents norms, expectations and rights associated with one’s sex. For example, men are expected to dress in certain regalia women in other and such.
In a world where some services such as bathrooms are categorized as for either male or female has made it difficult for people who can neither be categorized as male or female to enjoy the same protection from the constitution as others. In a binary based society, it becomes difficult for transgender community to enjoy the freedoms enshrined in the first amendment for every person regardless of race, gender or sexuality (Bolich, and Gregory, 42). To have bathrooms marked as either male or female disenfranchises people of transgender society. It is an implication that there are only male and females in this world. From a biological perspective there are more than male and female members of the society. The society also plays a role in blurring the understanding of masculinity and femininity. The two are the backbones of the binary society. As the fight for racial recognition and tolerance continues, the struggle for gender equality and recognition is on and has moved outside the boundaries of traditional institutionalized community. The dilemma of transgender society in the United States in the recent days has become subject of discussion across the divide (Waldron). The church been the most vocal against the recognition of transgender society. The first amendment argues there should be no law passed prohibiting the rights and liberties of people or institutions recognized by the constitution. However, in some states laws limiting freedoms of transgender society are passed in blatant disregard of the constitution.
Works cited
Bolich, Gregory G, and Gregory G. Bolich. Today's Transgender Realities. Raleigh, N.C: Psyche's Press, 2007. Print.
Waldron, Lucas. "Finding A Place To Go: The Transgender Bathroom Dilemma". The Huffington Post. N.p., 2012. Web. 13 June 2016.
