Transgender individuals still face discrimination despite growing acceptance
By Jesica Alvarez on December 20, 2012
http://borderzine.com/2012/12/transgender-individuals-still-face-discrimination-despite-growing-acceptance/ (http://borderzine.com/2012/12/transgender-individuals-still-face-discrimination-despite-growing-acceptance/)
This is an example of the problems that transgender individuals face throughout their lives. These individuals also endure discrimination and harassment at school and in the workplace.
Marcy, a 28-year-old woman who says she just happened to be born into a male body, realized from a very young age that she did not relate to the male gender.
"I've always been a feminine soul and for the longest time even from childhood I never identified with one gender or the other. I mean, I'm just Marcy," she said. Marcy believes that "being a woman is a state of mind and a state of being" and does not have to do with sex.