Hey everybody Sean here and today I want
to talk just for a short while on
transgender awareness month so if you
don't know November is transgender
awareness month and what does that mean
exactly why does they need to be a
transgender awareness month let me just
start off by saying trans people are
people so all of us should have equal
rights right we should all be safe to
live our lives without fear of bullying
or being fired from a job or having to
come out to people and not knowing how
they're going to handle that we should
all be safe to pursue freedom and
justice and liberty in life and
happiness right so the fact of the
matter is that trans people and when I
say trans people there's the sunbrella
right you've probably heard of this and
what that means is and who that includes
is people who identify on a binary scale
like me so we have trans men and trans
women and those people sort of stick
with the binary set up that is our
society as of today now we also have
people who don't identify with either of
those they don't feel like they're male
or female they see gender as a spectrum
and they fall somewhere on that spectrum
so they don't want to say yeah I'm a guy
or yeah I'm a girl these people are
gender non-conforming or gender queer
so what I'm talking about trans people
I'm referring to all of those people who
don't necessarily look like what society
thinks men and women should look like
and the fact is the trans people face a
ton of negative things in their life and
in our world right now and in our
country in some places you can be fired
or not hire just for being trans so I
could have every single qualification
everything this company is looking for
and just because they find out I'm
transgender they could fire me we have
States in our country in the united
states that allow this to happen
transgender youth are another huge
concern for me because they have a super
high rate of bullying suicide terrible
terrible things the young people should
not have to deal with young people
should be learning and exploring and
figuring out what they like and what
they want to do and who they want to be
friends with and who they want to go out
on a date with they shouldn't be
worrying about am I going to get bullied
am I going to get beaten up in this
bathroom so here's the deal if you don't
know anything about being transgender
there's an awesome thing called google
now when you google things there are
biases out there there are people who
are for and against or objective and I
have a couple websites i want to
recommend to you they give a good
definition of what it means to be trans
and they also talk about the issues that
trans people face today and that's not
just in our country that's throughout
the entire world so you'll see those
links are down in the description check
them out they're very worth it they're
not going to take you very long to read
through I'm not giving you a novel or a
dictionary just a couple of articles
that will help you understand us better
another thing for you to know is
November 20th is coming up and it's also
transgender day of
membrance and that's an important and
sad day for the trans community we all
come together usually individuals all
over the country all over the world all
over this state of Minnesota to honor
the trans people that we've lost and
when I say lost I mean people who have
been killed because they are transgender
they're not being killed because they're
criminals or because they're bad people
or mean to other people or because
they're looking for fights they're being
killed because they're transgender or
because their gender non-conforming and
that has to stop we don't want to
celebrate this holiday anymore we don't
want to have this reason to celebrate
these people these beautiful people
talented people artistic people that
we've lost because of hatred and
ignorance so please take a few minutes
to read some of the articles i'm posting
below like i said it'll take a couple of
minutes nothing huge but try to learn
and learn from sources that are actually
going to give you facts that are
actually going to explain things the way
myself or any other transgender
identified person would explain them to
you thanks again for tuning in and take
a few minutes during this month take a
day maybe once a day look for an article
about someone who's transgender try to
educate yourselves so you two can create
the awareness that we need thanks
you
