The Origin of Gender
12% of millennials stated they identify as transgender or gender non-conforming, as opposed to cisgender (non-transgender, or someone who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth). HUFFPOST Last july 14 was #NONBINARYPEOPLESDAY and Alok Vaid-Menon posted this on their Insta: I don't think I have to add anything to what was written that day. I agree wholeheartedly with it. People fear what they don't know. We are all aware of that. And cisgender people do not really KNOW what Transgender people go through. I have forever fought the cis gay men who belittle and bash Trans people. As Alok -very accurately- points out: '... they aren't fighting for freedom, they're fighting for privilege: the ability to take what has done to them and do it to others'. Truer words.... Trans and gender non-conforming people are not the enemy. The stubborn and flimsy adherence to outdated and constraining modes of acceptance is the enemy and it should be vanished. Trans
