Transgenderism

If you ask me, the issues concerning the transgender community are the latest frontier in the ongoing civil rights movement. I'm well aware that this is a somewhat controversial topic but that's never stopped me from writing about anything before now has it? I'm not going to lie, I am a man of science, and if we're going at the topic from the scientific angle, there are only two biological genders; male and female. However, while I am a man of science, I'm also a man of respect, decency, and manners. What this means is that if I meet someone and they identify as trans, I'll do the polite thing and call them by the pronoun that they prefer. Just because one doesn't believe something, doesn't mean they have to be a dick about it to put it frankly. The way I look at it is, if someone's name is Robert, but they prefer to be called Bob, I'm going to call them Bob. That just seems polite. I have the same policy when it comes to the preferred pronoun of someone who is transgender. Throughout my life, I've only encountered two people that I knew for a fact were trans, and I know them as perfectly nice and decent people. I've never seen any reason to treat them any differently because of how they self identify, just as they haven't treated me any differently for identifying with the gender I was assigned at birth. Personally, I think people blow the whole transgender issue way out of proportion, particularly those on the right who seem to have such an enormous chip on their shoulder concerning the topic. I know for a fact that the transgender community makes up an incredibly small portion of the worlds population. This, in my opinion, makes the whole bathroom issue much more insignificant than some make it out to be. Opponents of gender fluid restrooms try to paint this picture that there are men in dresses across the country trying to flood into women's restrooms to creep on little girls, when that simply isn't the case. I couldn't care any less about gender fluid restrooms in public places since home restrooms have been genderfluid since forever and there's never been a problem with them. Prejudice is one thing, but to hear about violence enacted upon members of the transgender community is even more heartbreaking. I just can't fathom how some people could have so much hatred in their hearts that they would feel the need to physically harm someone who's different from them. As far as I can tell, transgender people just want to feel comfortable in their own skin, and this isn't hurting anyone, therefore violence against them is not only morally reprehensible but it's just plain senseless. I think that the issues regarding the trans community will go down as an integral part of this era in history, and it's entirely up to us as a society as to how this aspect of culture will go down in the history books. Will we look back and regret how we treated these people, or will we be proud that we chose the path of enlightenment and acceptance? It's entirely up to us.