Transgender Rights Are Human Rights

Transgender rights are human rights. 

Transgender rights are human rights. 

Transgender rights are human rights. 

I want to scream this from the rooftops. I want to write on walls, paint it on ceilings, and staple it across the sky. I want to write these words in permanent marker all over the Oval Office. I want to write these words everywhere possible, because they are so, so true. 

Personally, I have never wanted to join the military. War is a horrible thing that I like to avoid thinking about. Plus, it has totally scared me ever since I saw Saving Private Ryan. 

But some people want to fight for their country. They want to serve, they want to protect, they want to help. They throw themselves in harm’s way in order to protect our freedom and our lives. And that is a beautiful thing. 

Not only is it beautiful, but it is a basic human right. A right that belongs to anybody and everybody who is a citizen of the United States. 

The president has announced that transgender people will no longer be permitted to enlist in the United States military. And I could not be more appalled or disgusted. 

To take this right away because of someone’s gender identity is biased, inhumane, and just plain cruel. 

Transgender people show incredible courage every time they leave their houses. They have been treated horribly just for being who they are, and that is something we cannot forget. Transgender people belong alongside everybody else. Just because they are different does not make them wrong or unequal. 

If a person that is openly transgender want to join the military, than he or she should be allowed to do so. It is not an extra expense or a burden to have transgender people enlist in the military. The military is lucky to have strong, brave, courageous people, no matter their gender history. 

It is so, so simple. Transgender rights are human rights.