Day Seven

I was with a group of people today and we were talking about gender. One person was angrily talking about how their are only two genders and how anything else is just, "not a thing." They went on to talk about how people are not transgender, and how they are either one gender or the other based on, "what is in their pants." He also talked about how sex changes are fine because then you are still basing your gender off of you biological body. Him saying all of this made me feel very angry and uncomfortable. I think the issue is that he cannot accept things he does not understand and therefore he deems it as wrong or just says that it doesn't actually exist. Just because you do not understand something does not mean it does not exist. There are such thing as transgender people, and people of other genders that do not conform to the two main genders, and they do not deserve to be discriminated against due to their gender. Most people who witnessed the incident were as appalled as I was at what he had said and backed me up when I tried to explain to him that he was wrong and that he was discriminating and basically being a jerk. I have previously witnessed many conversations about this topic, and whenever I have had the opportunity to, I have stood up for the people they were discriminating against.