Transgender Inequality

Transgender Inequality

    Transgender refers to people whose gender identity does not match the gender identity they were given at birth. Transgender people show their gender identities in many ways. Most transgender people adopt an individual style, which displays their real gender and they are comfortable with letting society know about it. Transgender people are different in revealing their gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation. However, these people are facing discrimination due to their sexual orientation in society. Transgender inequality is the unequal treatment transgender people receive in society. Transgender people experience unequal treatment at work, school or in the society in general due to a misunderstanding of their gender by the public.

Inequality has resulted in transgender people unable to access health care services. From the previous years, the creation of awareness about transgender has been developed to make people understand what it means to be transgender. Although awareness is increasing across learning institutions, society, and the nation at large, discrimination in access to medical attention is still an issue for transgender people (Whitehead,2017). Preconception, disgrace, and unfairness are the main distress of trans-individuals when seeking medical attention from health care facilities. People administering health care facilities tend to treat transgender people differently because of their sexual orientation. Multilevel analysis was conducted to investigate the lifetime healthcare care refusal using national data from 5831 United States transgender adults (White Hughto,2016). Results show that most people living in southern and western United States who are transgender experience healthcare refusal relative to other regions of the United States. Transgender people experience unequal treatment from society as they conduct their day to day activities.

At workplaces, transgender people are not treated equally with the other people. A research was conducted on how transgender are treated in the workplace (Ozturk,2016). The results revealed that the range of workplace challenges experienced by transgender employees are discriminatory effects mainly in getting the employment and also in relating with other employees in the workplace. Many transgender workers are affected during the transformation period due to lack of proper organizational support, and proficiency in supporting and accommodating transgender employees needs (Davidson, 2016). Statistical analysis indicated that being out as a gender queer person has different effects on gender queer people based on gender assigned at birth. Discrimination occurs more to those assigned as male at birth during employment but those assigned females at birth more likely to experience different treatment once employed. Transgender women have worse employment experience than gender queer people and transgender men. At school, transgender discrimination is evident where transgender students are exposed to constant discrimination from policies and administrations who fail to fight for them. Transgender students go through severe bullying by other students causing them to drop out of school or commit suicide.

In conclusion, transgender inequality is evident in society. Most people in the society have failed to accept transgender people in the community hence exposing transgender people in severe discrimination in accessing health care services. Transgender people are afraid to face discrimination at health care facilities; thus they don’t access the services. At workplaces, inequality is also evident where there are no policies of protecting transgender employees making them experience some harsh treatment at workplaces. Transgender men are not employed fast as compared to transgender women, but even with the employment of transgender women they still go through harsh treatment at workplaces. At school transgender students are also bullied, and some end up dropping out of school. Generally, transgender inequality is still present in the society people have not fully accepted the transgender people in society.

References

Davidson, S. (2016). Gender inequality: Nonbinary transgender people in the workplace. Cogent Social Sciences, 2(1), 1236511.

Ozturk, M. B., &Tatli, A. (2016). Gender identity inclusion in the workplace: broadening diversity management research and practice through the case of transgender employees in             the UK. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(8), 781-802.

White Hughto, J. M., Murchison, G. R., Clark, K., Pachankis, J. E., &Reisner, S. L. (2016).          Geographic and individual differences in healthcare access for US transgender adults: a      multilevel analysis. LGBT health, 3(6), 424-433.

Whitehead, B. (2017). Inequalities in Access to Health Care for Transgender Patients. Links to     Health and Social Care, 2(1), 63-76.