Alternative Viewpoints Paper

The LGBT population I want to learn more about, and I think I should learn more about, is the transgender population.  More specifically, I would like to learn about transgender people and health care because I have little, almost no, knowledge on it.  I’m curious id transgender people have health care at all, and if so, what kinds of health care are out there to support them.

 I have very little knowledge on the transgender community.  I have never met a transgender person in my life so I’ve never been able to observe how they’re treated and I’m very unfamiliar with the discrimination issues they face every day.  I would like to learn more about them because the things I've learned about them I don't believe are accurate.  From what I’ve heard about transgender people, I assume that they are confused about their sexuality and they are actually just gay.  This doesn’t seem accurate to me though because I believe sexual orientation and gender identity are two different things.  I've also have been told that transgender woman are not 'real' woman and transgender men are not 'real' men, they just associate with their unassigned sex.  I have never heard anything about transgender people and health care, so I don’t really have any assumptions about the type of health care they receive.

 I'm not quite sure where I got this information and these ideas about transgender people from.  If I had to guess, I would say it had to have been in middle school and high school from my peers, when I first learned there was a thing as a transgender person.