I couldnt help noticing that society is slowly going back to oppressing transgender individuals.
I consider oppression of any kind to be bad not just for an individual, but for society as a whole.
Building society on hate should never be anyone's goal, as societies built on hate cannot last.
Transgender individuals have right to happiness. Preventing their happiness wont increase your happiness, but it will increase their pain.
Our society, in which just few decades ago your parents would kick you out of house if you told them you were gay and you would be homeless, today oppresses individuals who just want to be what they are.
Some people simply cannot accept that a person can want to be something more than what was given to that person at birth.
It costs you nothing to simply admit that a person can be what that person wants to be.
To place people in roles, against their will, is the same as enslaving them. Those roles, that people talk about, came from oppressive societies that existed in history. Those roles belong in history, not in present.
You wouldnt force someone to get married. You wouldnt force someone to have kids. Yet you want to force someone to be something simply because it suits your view.
However, we do not get to impose our views on others, as that is oppression.
If you want to be called the way you like to be called, why call others the way they dont want to be called?
If you want to be called a man, why call other person a man if that person wants to be called a woman?
It costs you nothing to call people the way they want to be called.
If you want to do that which makes you happy, why prevent others from doing the same?
After all, the standard is only just if it is universal.
If you dont want to feel pain, then you should also not want for others to be in pain.
Even if their pain is not your pain, it still follows that pain is bad irrelevant of who feels it.
If you desire freedom, then desire freedom for all. Desiring freedom only for yourself is both unjust and greedy.
Transgender persons cannot be denied of right to do what they want with their bodies.
If we do not own our body, then what do we own? Nothing.
If someone else gets to decide what we do with our bodies, then that person owns our bodies. If someone else owns our bodies, that is slavery.
You have nothing to lose by respecting others.
So why not do it?