How do we kill the stigma of what people think transgender people are? Let’s start with awareness. We should understand that when a human baby is born, that baby can be born in three ways. One can have a male body child, a female body child, or an intersex body child. The term “intersex” wasn’t used frequently. In the 1970s, there were a lot of stigmas attached. These people were there, but they were not identified as such. What was studied were disorders and diseases. For a very long time, they were something to be fixed, something to be cured. What I found out is that we need to change the lens that we’ve been seeing with, and we need to see them as a variety of humans.
For a whole life, we create these filters. People think of putting on glasses, then what happens? Your whole view changes; everything in your visual span changes. We need to start putting on sunglasses; we need to start changing the variants of what we are seeing so we can start to see it differently. For a genetic makeup, the chromosome analysis is “atypical”. Atypical means it’s neither male nor female. When it comes to another bracket, they call it “abnormal”. People should start calling it “uncommon,” because uncommon is not abnormal; it’s just less common.
8 billion humans, but not a single person is the same; they have different retinas and fingerprints. This is what makes us different. Our differences need to be valued. The way we exhibit ourselves and behave defines psychology. Just like Joseph said, “Psychology is what you think about yourself, what you think about others, and what you think about the world.” Raising awareness about the variety of humans means believing that there are only red roses. Yes, you saw things, you heard things, and you felt things the way you believed. When it comes to basic human rights, every person has these rights. It’s on us; it’s not an allowance that we have to give; we just need to understand them better.
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