OUTLAW

The transgender population grows day by day. With that, the criticism and hatred of that population grows. Personally, I have had many encounters with the transgendered population; my family even through a Drag Queen fundraiser at a bar to raise money when my grandmother fell ill with breast cancer. The large amounts of criticism and hatred towards the transgendered community is a just a constant flow of stupid that stems from society's xenophobia. New prejudices have taken over the traditional ones, as the ideas and concepts of gender change. Society fears things that are different than the "norm". The social construct of gender is so fixed into what we are "suppose" to be. These strict norms that we are all suppose to adhere to create severe consequences and reactions. People are killed at the hands of bigots and those afraid of something that might not fit into what they have been taught to see as a man or woman. The cultural revolution that comes from the explosion of the great numbers of the transgendered population is frightening for some, and the ignorance and fright causes tragic results.