Log #2

Topic: Transgender   After understanding what transgender really stands for, I started digging into more background knowledge and history of it. Surprisingly, “transgender” is not a new concept, rather, an old one.

   Long before European has landed their footprints on the America, transgender had already exists. However, due to the lack of words, the record could only be traced back to the years when European documented the scenes they saw in aborigines. The term those European used to describe this special role is called “berdache.”

  More interestingly, transgender also appeared in the ancient India, where people were conservative. Hijra was the term used to describe those people. Not to mention that there were even poets who wrote poems to record these people.

  However, this kind of gender is not widely accepted. Transgender still faces a lot of problems and injustice. As a result, they had their own march. The march is called “trans march”, which is often held in the Friday of Pride Week( the week for LGBT people to stand up for themselves). Many people would join the parade not only to convey their ideas but also to be more visible to the world.

  As far as I have read, most of people are still confused about the difference between transgender and others. Furthermore, since the population of transgender are not that much as Gay or Lesbian, people pay less attention on them. After reading these articles (especially the one talking about Trump’s opinion toward transgender), I will be willing to learn more about them.