Beautiful Daughters and Trans Woman Manifesto

The video “Beautiful Daughters” and the article “Trans Woman Manifesto” taught me a lot of things that I did not know about transgender people. In the article, Julia explained that transgender women need to embrace their feminineness and fight for equal rights as a feminist. She encouraged other feminists to do the same because just as women need to be valued, so do trans women. She also explains all the oppression from different sides of society. She talks about how transphobia affects trans women by expressing insecurity about someone’s own gender. She also talks about how cissexism affects trans women because people who were born with their desired gender prejudice transgender people by saying that they are inferior to them and that cisgender people fit in the norm of a binary gender society. Finally she mentions misogyny towards women as a problem that affects trans women. This is true because in society we are ruled by patriarchy and when someone does not follow the norm, men tend to ridicule the, just because they don’t want other people to embrace their femininity.

We as people need to take into account all these prejudices against transgender people and help them by respecting their choice or the way they were born. We need to include them in society as normal people who just want to live happy, have dreams, and have a voice.