We were talking in class about the media and the kinds of shows that we watch as a class. Someone had mentioned the show Our America and how recently they had an episode on transgendered persons. I decided to search on YouTube to find a video of this and a segment popped up.
This specific portion of the show is about a family where the youngest child named Harry was born male, but he identifies more as a girl. The young boy was more drawn towards dolls and girl's clothing and in self-portraits he drew him as a girl. He even renamed himself Haley all on his own. Lisa Ling is the host of the show and she interviews the parents to get a sense of how they are dealing with everything.
One of the concerns that the father mentions about raising a transgendered child is that he fears that she will not have a normal life and he questions who is going to love her? I am assuming that he also fears the issue of hate crimes committed against transgendered individuals. I found an article that describes how 14 states so far have changed a bill to include gender identity or expression to the list of factors (including race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) that would result in an increase of a person's prison sentence. Those who decided to have this addition to the bill passed felt that it would act as a deterrent against hate crimes towards transgendered people. This ensures that those who "attack" a transgendered person because of the way they are, will get a fitting punishment and prison sentence.
Here is the link to the article:
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