Reflection Paper On Transgender

1.4 million people in the U.S are transgender and a majority are publicly shamed. As a young child, we are taught blue is for boys and pink is for girls. Boys play football and girls do ballet. But I want to reverse that, it 's unfair to force a child into doing things they may or may not want to do. We should teach kids at a young age that you do what you feel is necessary to express yourself. I 've had this problem and I can say for sure it has destroyed a part of me that I cannot ever retrieve. I was shamed for wanting to wear a tutu and wanting to paint my nails. I was too embarrassed by myself to go to school with even my toenails painted which you cannot even see because of my shoes. I was emotionally destroyed because this was not who I wanted to be. I wanted to be a flamboyant and beautiful person, not someone who wore t-shirts and was yelled at for being too boring. Before I go onto who I am currently I need to remember the past. When I was just a child I was also discriminated and made fun of for having and wanting "feminine" attributes and characters. I played dress up and wore a dress and I painted my nails and I thought it was perfectly fine. I didn 't realize the bigger social structures and expectations of me. I didn 't understand why I was told I couldn 't go to school wearing nail polish. And when people found out about these things I was made fun of and I felt terrible about myself. I also had the issue of a high pitched voice until 7th grade which caused