Understanding Trans Identity: Breaking Down Misconceptions

From Facebook

I’ve just seem someone comment that “this trans stuff is bullshit”.

This comment, combined with the awful statement that Trump Jr made earlier this month (“I can’t name, including probably like Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, a group that is more violent per capita than the radical trans movement.”) is making me so mad. Okay, he did refer to the “radical” trans movement … but honestly, is there such a thing?

Trans people just want to be who they are! I’m just so sick and tired of the hurt thrown at the minorities time and time again.

My life has given me endless opportunities to learn about “new-to-me” aspects of life and every time, I’ve chosen to embrace the chance to grow when faced with something I didn’t yet understand.

You do know that trans is just an ADJECTIVE, right? It works the same way as:

• Tall woman
• Thin man
• Tan woman
• Pale man
• Pregnant woman
• Short man
• Trans woman
• Trans man

That’s it. Just a descriptor. Nothing radical, nothing threatening, just another word that helps describe who someone is.

A reminder that we’ve seen this pattern of non-acceptance over and over again, and in the end, society learns and grows.

Slavery: Once accepted, later recognised as profoundly wrong.

Left-handedness: Once treated as unnatural or sinful, later understood as simply a natural variation.

Interracial relationships: Once banned and punished, now embraced as normal and loving.

Women in power: Once dismissed as unfit, now rightly recognised as capable leaders.

Same-sex relationships: Once criminalised, now increasingly understood as love like any other.

Being trans sits in that same pattern. What was once called “wrong” or “unnatural” is being recognised for what it truly is: a human reality, another expression of the beautiful diversity of how people exist.

And DON’T say a man is a man, and a woman is a woman – all that does is show your ignorance, your lack of effort to actually learn, and your pride in remembering high school biology while ignoring everything we’ve learned since.