Reterdeen Staff
In today’s world, the scope of being a transgendered individual has changed drastically. What was once deemed more of a taboo subject globally has now become much widely accepted in different countries around the world, and many people have learned to respect individuals that identify themselves as transgender. But being a transgender in some part of the world it has not been fully embraced, especially in continents like Africa.
However, the acceptance of transgenders did not happen at once. There was a string movement that led to such reality. The life of a transgender can be severely tough even in countries like America and Philippines were it accepted, many suffer complete rejection from their family, friends, and members of the society. These rejections have triggered transgenders into severe depression, thus leading to an increase in the rate of suicides. From a global survey, pool respondents were shown to have attempted to take their lives around 45% of the time. It is significant, as sexual harassment is one of the biggest causes, followed by physical harassment or assault and causes of job losses due to numerous bias.
So what does it mean to be a transgender person? Generally, a person who identifies as transexual or transgender were born with male or female anatomies, but feel they were not born into the right body and are willing to alter their body to suit the gender which they think is the right one. Being a transgender does not fall to a certain kind of people, the poor, the rich, the ugly, the good-looking, the common men and the elite have all come out of the closet. Bruce Jenner now known as Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, Caroline Cossy, are few of the global celebrities who have identified themselves as transgender.
There are also some Nigerians who have made it known to the public that they are transgender, but due to the stiff penalty imposed on being a transgender in Nigeria, these people have moved to tolerant countries. Some of them include Stephanie Rose formerly known as Dapo Adaralegbe, Miss Sahara who was formerly known as Clifford Oche, etc. With the current rate of individuals identifying themselves as transgender, there has been a sudden increase in the scale as many people all over the world are coming out the closet daily. But in Nigeria, there is a 14 year jail-term waiting for whoever dared coming out of this closet.
Being a transgender does not attribute to a man just being feminine who a woman being masculine; science has played a pivotal role in making the “trans process” an easy one. Drugs, surgery medication, are now available for a male to develop breast, buttocks, hips and other feminine characteristics.
Women are not left out too; there are medications also that make them develop beard, deeper voice, biceps, and masculine traits. Like I earlier stated, many people are now identifying themselves as transgender rather than discriminate or abuse them; we should show strong support.
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