As society begins to gradually accept the civil rights of the queer community, such

as a marriage equality and protective laws, the movement for transgender rights is
becoming more of an issue, although much greater progress is still required. In the
modern world of gender roles and binaries, being denoted simply as other has to
common problems for transgender community such as workplace discriminations, lack
of recognition in schools, exclusion from the gender sports, and interacting with
intolerance on a daily basis. Combined these factors work to demean any person who
does not fall within the strict limits of the cisgender binary complex. Traditional values
have left others who do not behind and struggling to survive. The drive for basis
liberties is an important one, because it means a different of life and death and can
also allow people who have been excluded from society for most of its past to be
welcomed in a new age.

Queer people in the workplace, especially those who are transgender, experience
a much greater deal of discrimination than their cisgender counterparts. It is currently
legal in thirty two status to fire workers for being transgender. Another historic right
was taken away last week as Kansas Governor Brownback signed an executive order
rescinding protective rights for LGBTQ. Transgender students also face an array of
discrimination in schools, such as a being forced into using the bathroom of their
assigned gender and not being recognized by the school referring to that student by
their assigned gender and its pronouns. “While bathroom is just a bathroom, it can
hold great significance for transgender and gender nonconforming kids, especially
those seeking acceptance from peers”.
Another challenge is participating in sport, specifically the issue of student with
varying anatomies changing in the same locker room. Although they both identify with
a certain gender. Thirty-two states have adopted policies in recent years regarding
transgender athletes with several states placing restrictions on their ability to complete
with teammates of their preferred gender.
The movement for transgender equality is simple and based on the idea that
people who grapple with gender identify still deserve the same rights as any cisgender
person. These laws are used to trump fundamental civil liberties such as free speech and
free exercise religion. Rather than single out those with traditional beliefs, protective
legislation is passed to ensure the rights of transgender people, who have faced hate
crimes and discrimination for most of history and now being safeguarded through the
law. The constitution was not created to protect the right of discrimination, but rather
provide protection for those who would otherwise be excluded and legally defenseless.
 Recently, Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teenager took her life after experiencing
extreme discrimination, both from her school and family. She wrote that she didn’t want
her death to be in vain and she wanted to bring awareness to the lack of civil rights for
transgender people. Mostly traditional forces are opposed to rights for transgender
people, claiming that such rights would be an attack on their basic freedom. However,
such rights would legally establish a position for the defenseless, which was the original
of constitution. Establishing such as law would allow transgender people to live in
harmony with society and include theme in modern life and it should be the goal of
citizens to enhance the life of others .