Guest Column: The gender barrier
http://media.www.diamondbackonline.com/media/storage/paper873/news/2008/11/17/Opinion/Guest.Column.The.Gender.Barrier-3546390.shtmlEric Nguyen
11/17/2008
In 1993, Brandon Teena was raped, beaten and murdered. In 2002, Gwen
Araujo was murdered by four men during a party. And this year, Angie
Zapata was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by her date.
They were all murdered for being transgender. Although a spirit of
change has swept through the United States this election season, some
things simply haven't changed.
Transgenders, an umbrella term for those who do not fit the gender
binary of male and female, including those who feel that they were
born into the wrong sex and those who don't believe they should have
to choose one sex, have long been marginalized by society at large.
Despite a president-elect promising change, including promises of
equality for gays and lesbians, there is no mention of any change for
transgendered people.
