Transgenders and the Life they Live

When someone chooses to change their sex, you can't help but wonder why. To many people, it seems wrong and unnatural to the way the world is "supposed" to be. Many can't understand why someone would hate who they are so much as to change themselves from a man to a woman, or vice versa. From what I learned reading "To Be Poor and Transgender," by Kai Wright, people try to and do change themselves to be accepted. Everyone has probably seen someone who they can't quiet tell if they are a man or a woman. What would you do if you met one of these people? Look at them funny? Make fun of them? Or would you just flat out ignore them. Chances are that these people have experienced all of these tortures and more by other people who don't seem to understand that they didn't chose to be this way. Transgender aren't seen as true people by many, and intern, don't get the same rights and or treatment as other people. An example of this is when a transvestite was refused medical treatment just because she was really a he. Transvestites’ change who they are because they want to feel what other people have always felt; acceptance from others. They are willing to do whatever is necessary to do so, even if it means using dangerous and illegal means. Could you imagine what they're lives must have been like, and how they still are? I don't know how many of these people have the strength to keep living. The unfortunate truth is that many of them don't. It's a shame that everyone can't accept everyone else for who they are instead of passing judgment. To me, it should be considered a major human flaw.