Interview One
Introduction
An interview is a process which involves asking and answering of questions between two or more people who are interviewer and interviewee to collect data. On the other hand, a transgender person is an individual whose physical, sexual expression is different from their assigned gender at their birth. Therefore, the paper is an interview aimed to analyze the life experiences of a transgender individual critically.
Interview One
Aviva: Hi my name is Aviva and I would be having a conversation with Hutten for the New York City Trans-oral history project in collaborations with New York Public libraries, community oral history project. This is an oral history project centered on experiences of trans-identified people its December 26th and it being recorded in Docken donors on sixth floor.
Hutten: Yap
Aviva: Yeah, Hi.
Hutten: Hello
Aviva: Could you say your full name?
Hutten: My name is Hutten.
Aviva: Okay, and where are you from?
Hutten: I grew up in Connecticut, but I moved on quite a bit looking for more, New York, Connecticut or anything, you know.
Aviva: What’s Connecticut like?
Hutten: I hate Connecticut, I am still not sure all. Especially being transferred or something, a lot easier before I came out there.
Aviva: Yeah, what was your early life out there?
Hutten: I grew up in a lower middle class, middle class household, my father (Laughter) used to be a serviceman, my mother was, I guess she tried but I don’t think she knew what to do.(Laughter) My whole life is pretty shady.
Aviva: Yeah
Hutten: I learned indivisibility growing up, so I was being special head soon as I could remember, when she could single me out. So growing up was pretty tough. I too much enjoyed it but that was in few a times, just a lot of damn shit. My brothers were quite abusive to me, I was the youngest of four and my mother’s only. My youngest brother is 10 years older and couldn’t get the shit kicked out (Laughter) of the bottom of the three of them and my father was recovering alcohol as well so… He started drinking, and I think when I was thirteen and that was pretty rough on… It was almost my first time at thirteen I couldn’t stand being in my parent’s household any longer…My brother ended up taking me and my youngest brother… I went to prison my first time at sixteen. I left Connecticut the first time on a long term basis, I think when I was nineteen right after my car accident. I went up to Burling to grandma, I lived up there for three and half, four years before I came back down here…Basically I have been running my whole life, (inaudible) running from myself, running from my family…I got started on drugs quite young…more than anything my agents on my car accident, I got me hooked on opiates. And that’s my twenty years of hell, I was clean for six years before I had to run out her…But when I got here I wasn’t able to get on program again immediately, so I ended up back on dope…I finally got on program at Bellevue and they treated so horribly. I got misgendered by my own counselor every day, every time I saw anybody in there I was misgendered. Too harsh off for me was the hospital police officer, giving me like straight up harassment like screaming on me about using female bathroom and the lobby in Bellevue. They embarrassing women shit out of me and I decided I was going to (Laughter) going to kill myself if I just come back out of here. So I have been back out just doing my things ever since (inaudible). Couldn’t take it there at least in Connecticut the program I was in, they treated me decently. Very late Trans includes the LGBT inclusive.
Aviva: What program is that?
Hutten: The Apt Foundation in New Heaven.
Aviva: And when was that you, were there?
Hutten: Oh God… I left in May I think, went home every time with my mother, that cause me to run from Connecticut…she was trying to have me put into psychiatric hospital. She had already done it for two weeks. No sex hospital I think in a psychiatric hospital, I thought I was there because I was suicidal. My mother (Laughter) told the police that I was threatening to kill her and burn her house down. (Laughter) She was trying to get rid of me, put me somewhere where I can’t be the bother anymore. Especially because of who I am…My whole family, I be with my mother when I came out, would have nothing absolutely nothing to do with me. My brothers, like my aunts, uncles, cousins…
Aviva: Was it because of…they were religious?
Hutten: No (inaudible)…having no hatred in my heart, from the youngest of ages like my grandfather was a huge (inaudible). He thought black people should be back in slavery for shit sake. In six or seven years old…I had kept for my baseball team, only black kid in our town that I knew of at that time, I had him over after a baseball practice, my grandfather came out waving shot gun screaming get that off my property or I’ll shoot him. That’s the kind of family I grew up with (inaudible)… I went dresses like a girl hot out on Halloween like accessories avenues as well like this when I knew I had to hid who I was my father was home and we got home me my mother literally tore the cloth off me and beat me (inaudible). They kept me home from school for almost two weeks because of it, they beat me like I was grown there was no holding back. And I didn’t come home till they started suffering from my severe out assignments and in my mind it was no longer a threat, it was no longer really a physical threat. Emotionally, mentally like I was so terrified it took me like since I was 31 years to come home, he couldn’t even remember my name anymore.
Aviva: Did you know any Trans people when you were growing up, or a (inaudible)?
Hutten: I pretty much avoided them if I did see them for fear of outing my own self (inaudible). I pretty much avoided any of all contact with anyone who was LGBT just for fear that associating with them myself would make people question me.
Aviva: (inaudible) who were some of the people you were talking to at those times?
Hutten: I mean most people considered the people I social with like low people but associated like gangsters, drug dealers, those are the people that taken care of me since I was a kid those are my family.
Aviva: What does care look like?
Hutten: Food in my belly, roof over my head sure they got emotional stuff is nice but is strenuous for the most part and he had much of that growing up. Love and affection were like a big thing in my household (inaudible). We are basically supposed to be seeing (inaudible) really. Even my only brothers they a lot worse than I did because my dad was like drinking heavily when we were growing up. So that was a lot more vicious to me than it was with me and I think that part of the reason why my brothers fucked me up so bad because they saw how differently I was treated compared to them…One of my brothers actually talked to me about it (inaudible) he resented because of the way I was brought up compared to them. He never knew who I really was, he never knew the fear I have been in every day. Every time I come I find (inaudible) in my bedroom and something like that. Terrified me, I don’t know what she thought (inaudible) she has refused ever to talk to me about it ever since I come home. (Inaudible) she has accept the idea that I double (inaudible). I brand every picture I could find from my past everything, my mum (inaudible) I burned about everything that she had, I destroyed (inaudible). I erased that person as best as I could because that person was a lie straight up fucking lie every day in my life I lived a lie. (Inaudible) are liars and thieves (inaudible) lies my entire life, I knew who I was from earliest (inaudible). Ideas of what gender was, I knew I wasn’t’ right when something was wrong didn’t really understand it until I was 5, 6 is when I could understand it that I was in a wrong body. I have lived lies (inaudible) since lately, before I transitioned socially I lived like very hyper masculine life just to make sure that I wasn’t audited in any way you know. (Inaudible) everything I did I make sure it was going all the way and it sucks that I was (inaudible) every moment. I have been cutting myself burning myself sure it has since I was 10 years old probably. Done it out of rehabs psychiatric hospitals and mostly I have stopped ever since I come home. (Inaudible) maybe occasionally I have to psychiatric hospital for my depression, bipolar, maybe some time I got off the deep ends and I check myself in but it is not like it used to be. Like emergency (inaudible) against my will high pointless strain (inaudible), it was really had. Even my drug problem isn’t the same as it used to be (inaudible) is used to be trying just to obliterating my mind I am still using heroin right now but I am not using to get (inaudible). I am using it basically to maintain because I won’t go to the fucking clinic because of the way I am treated. (Inaudible) on an average day this is enough for me just make me a little better but it is not enough to get me like… You see all this people on the side of the street they like needles (inaudible) underground and (inaudible) (laughter) I don’t want to be like that anymore. I don’t really ‘want to be using this drugs anymore but it is what it is, this is the better option for me and that’s sad too. To be that using heroin is a better option for me mentally and freaking being in the being in the clinic that is supposed to be one of the best hospital in the country. (Inaudible) they can’t even gender me properly and hospital freaking polices harass me for using women bathroom. I get harassed all the time by the parks police too when I use bathrooms or every washrooms in the square. Just like a couple of weeks ago I had one come in there and freaking harass me for like two or three minutes, telling I was in the wrong bathroom. After I explain the norm, I know where I am supposed to be there is a sign right outside the bathroom and it explicitly says when in New York City law and bathroom (inaudible). And you he was totally disrespectful, rude and nobody would do a thing, supervisor wouldn’t even come when I finally after like twenty minutes arguing got him even call the supervisor (inaudible). I don’t know whether it is the Trans or whether it is the hormones or whether it is a section of the two (inaudible) it is just wrong. I thought when I came home, especially when came in New York (inaudible) all the shit this much. I really didn’t, I thought especially when I came over here I thought I was going to be a lot better but still I mean it is a lot better than I was before somebody come out 20 years ago. (Inaudible) I mean the shit still sucks, like people I walk behind like spitted my signs, like check the shit. I have around some nasty people every day and it sucks like I shouldn’t have to, just for like existing you know. I deal with it a lot better than I used to (inaudible) what other people think about me doesn’t even fucking matter. What you think about me is none of my business (inaudible) it must be something to harm me, it really doesn’t matter what you think about me. If you kick my side that hurts but you know it’s what it is men you showing yourself to be a lower person as far as (inaudible).
Aviva: What are you drawing trying to be straight?
Hutten: I have seen this other people’s kindness a lot of the time, when somebody is kind enough to like stop and talk to me.
Aviva: What kind of people stop and talk to you, like is they are (inaudible) urban. I don’t they are transgender or (inaudible).
Hutten: No…definitely like some people do have their genders for sure, like a lot of the question people they are trying like even start (inaudible), I don’t even want to get into it that. But it is no fun to say they would start it off a lot whole night since we then they get to LGBT gender (Laughter) and kind of go south from there most of the time. Most people are mostly after genuinely kind people, people that want to help and that’s really what keeps me going. There is a lot of ass holes here but the people that are kind are just really amazing people.
Aviva: What of this some other important connections that you have throughout your whole life, are there like…?
Hutten: Animals, I was actually going to school from a veterinary (inaudible) when I got my brain injured.
Aviva: Where was that you were going to school?
Hutten: I was going to a free college of (inaudible) then doing all the pretty recklessness and the shit, going to veterinary school.
Aviva: What do you (inaudible) to that?
Hutten: I have always been an animal person, my mum has my service dog right now and refuses to give it back to me. It is my second service dog had a service for over fifteen years (inaudible) I really into animals a lot better, people they do have the genders. An animal show unconditional love.
Aviva: Do you go anywhere be with animals here?
Hutten: Most of the time they come by, I have a lot of people (inaudible) they live in the neighborhood and they bring their dog pretty much every day just to say hello and they get a little bit of poppy therapies for five or ten minutes and they go along their way. Another one comes along so I get around 10 talk dogs (inaudible) on a daily basis with their owners.
Aviva: So sweet.
Hutten: Yeah, and people see how I relate with their dogs and they are happy (inaudible). This is one dog Kelly, she literally like freaks out the petal every time she sees me, I mean so cute (laughter).
Aviva: What are some (inaudible) nicer aspects really (inaudible) moving around people?
Hutten: (inaudible) it sucks way more but (inaudible) really I enjoyed myself here lately, the people you got to meet, I never had access to such a broad array of people. You see absolutely anything in (Laughter) everything that you could see walking right by here, we got a million different languages when you sit there…Walking by talking French, Chinese (inaudible) it’s some. It’s just the diversity I think it’s beautiful.
Aviva: Do you spend time in other parts of the city or you must (inaudible)?
Hutten: I am pretty much, basically for abusing myself I get (inaudible) everyday anyway I absolutely nothing left that I came here, pretty much nothing of value, I have blankets, (inaudible), cloths were just brought to me right after (inaudible) I caught some woman a day before Christmas walking into the park with my scaffold. Like as soon as she walked by she pulled it over (inaudible) it. This scarf right here, let me show you. Like she knew it was stolen and she knew it was mine and she was trying to hide it. I got drugged out broken by some dude walk up in a hospital, one shoe, my purses were missing, no clue of how I even got there (Laughter).
Aviva: What do you do when that happens to you, just go back to (inaudible)?
Hutten: Just go back to life, what am I going to do?
Aviva: Yeah…
Hutten: Cops won’t do anything.
Aviva: Are there specific people that you talk to…check in with?
Hutten: There is a couple (inaudible), Susan she actually came by while ago and say hello. Judith (inaudible) is a friend of mine I thought I had of her wife she passed away (inaudible) this winter. I mean that was her wife like she was around the corner and she kind of taking me under her wing and giving me a lot of help and kindness. Yeah, that are few people that make things a lot easier.
Aviva: And prior being living in the streets, did you have other forms of employment or did you work with it?
Hutten: No… I didn’t get disability immediately, like I didn’t get that (inaudible) like in four, five years ago, the car accident was in 2001. I tried to get by during the (inaudible) everything, working my side jobs, my construction, (inaudible) restaurants, I don’t really hold jobs very well. It’s had to do with my brain injury, like I don’t remember things very well. So (inaudible) had to tell you to do same thing five times before you had to get it done. You can go to the (inaudible) by yesterday if you didn’t call me (laughter) who knows, I totally forgot. That was just the most annoying thing I in my life.
Aviva: Do you have other community or do you have other Trans girls that you on with or that you befriended?
Hutten: Not really… (Inaudible)I handle alone most of the time, I sure got trust issue (laughter). But as a lot of like that LGBT population I get ignores me, but they walk by they don’t even look at me. So no I haven’t really bonded with…When I first got up here I was up in Union Square there another homeless Trans girl that I kind of (inaudible) but I haven’t seen her for five or six months now probably. And I have been to Union Square where she used to be and I haven’t seen her around I don’t know whether she left, got locked, died who knows, its kin of hard to keep track of this woman beside too, I moved on we going to go to where I am going to L.A (inaudible).
Aviva: Yeah…So you feel more bonded with homeless people on the streets then, gay people (inaudible) as well?
Hutten: Yeah, most of sure, they most of sure they, yeah I get more in love from my people you wouldn’t think what you could give me that time a day. Literally, I have homeless people come by and throw me coins (inaudible). LGBT people they just they won’t even give me a cigarette, I don’t know what it is (inaudible) it doesn’t really matter. It really sad there is no any other solidarity anymore, even just saying hello. My last sign I know I was getting stoned (inaudible), I care about your time than your money had much rather you stop and say hello for five minutes than throw a dollar in my hand. I like (inaudible) money definitely hold because you can’t live without it but I’ll take the time (inaudible). I end up spending most my Christmas with (inaudible). (Phone rings) I don’t trust anybody, they are the people that I chose to hang out with so often (inaudible), they are the ones that show me love. I mean don’t get me wrong there are people from the community they are like (inaudible) and stuff like that, and they show me their love. (Inaudible) especially during winter after it. They will be more, people saying hello, I mean I’d say good morning with people walking by on their way to work and they just walk by me, like I am not even there.
Aviva: Have you felt there is shift with the IPhones or with the technology you heard before?
Hutten: Big time, people like some of it that I think is excuse to ignoring you, you’ll see them like 20, 30 feet from you pull out their phone. Come-on like I am not stupid, my (inaudible) was a psychologist so I had fairly got the theory. Yeah, people are so plugged into their ear pods or whatever they call that is what it is. Like rob them completely, I don’t even use the wing box to make phone calls once I have what I (inaudible) to.
Aviva: So you don’t want to be connected in any way?
Hutten: Not all, Facebook, twitter… not any of those shit, email…
Aviva: And what is it, why is that for you?
Hutten: Yeah, I take technology as completely as completely the downfall of communications between people and the society. You will see two people sitting there right next to each other, instead of talking they start texting? Come-on men what the fuck is wrong with you. I mean I just don’t get it, if want to talk to you I want to talk to you. I won’t sit there you know all they use is link box, okay I’ll see you there.
Aviva: Is a link box, is that a…What is that?
Hutten: They link the free phones, the television screens in the rich (laughter) neighborhoods. They say don’t go that much past first avenue rolling that way. But you can make phone calls get directions.
Aviva: Oh, I know about those yeah.
Hutten: I don’t really want to use those, I won’t even get like a little batteries powered radio, and I love music.
Aviva: What kind of music do you like?
Hutten: Everything, the (inaudible), obviously the grateful dead, like classroom music, jazz anything really. All this Christmas musical am good with that.
Aviva: (Laughter) hopefully rode over that hump with that one.
Hutten: (inaudible) please all.
Aviva: Did you have reason to go to concerts?
Hutten: Yeah, I will still do it when I have a chance but it has become hard right now.
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: I love music, ever I am friend of the street musician South vibe. Once a while he would sit there and play a few songs (inaudible). Not that I don’t get to hear much music as I be walking by that audible Bluetooth speaker. (Inaudible) am on a washing room where I on a weekend I got to play some piano music out there. I saw it nice I saw there is a future out of this groups playing there like a fairly regular basis. So I would sit down (inaudible) while listen to them (inaudible).
Unonymous: I am interject even when, but we have other opportunity to talk other time
Hutten: Yeah, it will be a matter of few times, she one be the kind stopping me in the middle of the time, I got it.
Unonymous: calm down (inaudible).
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: This sucks, I always appreciate it (inaudible) I am ready for people stopping me all the time.
Aviva: Do you have ways for entering towards your future, like any other things that you have in mind, like you want to be able to like get to that place or have that experience.
Hutten: (Inaudible) I just have a roof over my head, enough money to take care of my basic needs. I’d like to shine like all this other people. I do as much as I can here though, I get a lot of food all the time, I feed bunch of the other homeless people. I get the donuts here night and day, I bring all the donuts and leftovers (inaudible) assuming I take what I want, bring the rest of it washing them and there is a bunch of people that are sleep on this scaffold. I take and drop off all the donuts and whatever actual food that I got over there, social blankets.
Aviva: Yeah, that’s really beautiful.
Hutten: I mean it’s sad that homeless people (inaudible) I don’t know what you mean by this but homeless people steal from other homeless people. It kind of sad but we all (inaudible) not all survive down there, most of the homeless people, they may be drug addicts, maybe (inaudible) whatever, they determine good people (inaudible). If they can they take care of you.
Aviva: Yeah
Hutten: This is really unfortunate circumstance (inaudible) negative drug lords. I mean all the drug lords anyway implement it on racially bias purposes. Even the change in Federal (inaudible) guidelines for crack (inaudible) we got back in the 1980’s. Like rich white people on the Wall Street sniffed powdered cocaine while poor black people on Harlem smoked crack. Must make penalty for crack much worse (inaudible), white dude on Wall Street walks away with probation or fine black dude got to support his family as ten years maybe. It just that they get done in other countries, (inaudible) like you know I just got turned up by a fucking doctor. I was just smoking a tone of weed, drinking a lot (inaudible) and the cops and the doctor was freely giving my pain medication a couple of years ago. Then just caught me off up from nowhere, it was 2003 I got caught off (inaudible) the whole opiate.
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: (Inaudible) I went for a day without getting my last drip (inaudible).
Aviva: Yeah, that not enough reason (inaudible) sustainably.
Hutten: (inaudible) then went to another.
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: And I don’t feel guilty about it though, I don’t believe what I am doing is wrong. I believe that is what the society based perception, who say that people that live off (inaudible), how doctor get their jobs if you are in the hospital and they don’t give you drugs when you are in the hospitals.
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: So all societally based perception same of those perception of LGBT, it all says
Aviva: What do you say that a bunch of this, more about the rich, gay people that are walking by other gays. What do you want them to know when you see that happening (inaudible).
Hutten: You…just say hello and (inaudible).
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: (inaudible)
Aviva: Yeah, acknowledge you.
Hutten: Remind me I am not alone…
Aviva: I am so sorry, you had that experience.
Hutten: A lot of times it really does feel like I am alone, I see you probably awake probably for 20 hours a day, and I am sitting here for the most of that time I am completely worn. Maybe a couple of hours a day that mean all people that stop by do I have sort of social interaction. Most of the time it does feel like complement people and stuffs like that or try to drive into a compensation. They don’t care (inaudible) or somebody sneezes they don’t even say thank you. Like I made you sneeze like I say good blessings you get something from you for real. I do not like (inaudible) to do it down the next block that friend sitting down all day harassing people. I don’t ask anybody for money, (inaudible) I mean I do occasionally like really slowly like more than two people walking by every couple of minute like late in the night or stuff like that (inaudible). Only that late, people who want to help please help me right if you are I do not ask anybody who is not friendly (inaudible).
Aviva: And you are able to feed yourself and get by through people giving money.
Hutten: It is not easy we got.
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: (inaudible) sometimes you set for four five (inaudible) like reels working in sales loggings and now there times it’s really boom boom boom and you make freaking forty dollars I a matter of five minutes.
Aviva: And can you talk about where you are going tonight like have you found out about how you set it up.
Hutten: There is a place known as guttered river side so many that walk by and talk to me. Sent them to me (laughter) and they get by a couple of time (inaudible) I send them way thinking that they are (inaudible) of the city, because I don’t want anything to do with the city or the city shelter system.
Aviva: Have you been in the city shelter system?
Hutten: Yeah.
Aviva: Then what happen (inaudible)
Hutten: One of the freaking thing than happen (inaudible) tried blackmailing me for a (inaudible) favor the (inaudible) thing is that I don’t give a fucking thing about it, so I packed my things and left. He told he going to play drugs on me (inaudible) I don’t want to do show like that (inaudible). They were (laughter) pondering their lives then mine don’t then I do.
Aviva: And so this place is…
Hutten: This is safe haven it is not associated with the savvy they get funding (inaudible). I think from the saving, but it is not adoring. It is bedrooms and two beds, share a room with another woman I don’t know what kind of building it is. I have no idea (yawns), I’d also woke up. There was (inaudible) so somehow west forties, which means between seventh and the eighth something like that so it probably around somewhere something like that. It’s probably five, six storey building I imagine (inaudible).
Aviva: I hope it helped you (inaudible).
Hutten: It would be better than being out here on the streets all night (inaudible), and there is no curfew. I can come and go as I please the things that really hinder me a lot lately but not necessarily very reasonable. I am a night person (inaudible) they have a curfew of nine or ten o’clock at some city sheltered, that don’t really work too well for me. There is a place I am told, yes you treated like (inaudible). You have to check in every three days or some shit for them to know that you are still there, you are still alive. Now they are not, they left on devices, I guess they do feed you if you want.
Aviva: Okay.
Hutten: Which is great, like but…
Aviva: And do you advice for other Trans girls on the street, is there things that you have learnt throughout the years…for other people to know?
Hutten: Sleep during the day for your safety for sure, that one of this I say I have learnt right now. Wait till there’s people out on the street before you go to sleep. So…be careful whom you trust for sure. Actually, nobody is your friend for real and this are shady things that I have to say, it is the truth of the matter. Yeah, just take care of yourselves and don’t worry about other people shit like don’t get involved in drama. Just take care of yourselves, if you can help somebody else do it for sure. But take care number one first you have to, because nobody else is going to do it for you out here.
Aviva: Are there any other stories or things you want to share for the archive for the people that know how?
Hutten: I mean…God there is a million of them…
Aviva: Yeah (inaudible).
Hutten: I will tell you what I have never felt, so free and happy like since I have come out. Since like I have come to New York, even if I haven’t had as much interaction with my community as I had likely. Being able to see every day, like walking down the street. People like myself that is a wonderful thing (inaudible). That is what I was talking about (inaudible) diversity at this place. Like seeing guys walking down the street holding hands, women walking down the street holding hands, kissing each other. Where I come from even in New Heaven like (inaudible) should really figure it out. Here I see stuff like that every day and like anytime I do, it warms my heart. I wish we would be kinder to one mother…
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: Yeah I do, because it’s hard enough as it is like without getting peered all along the way. I wish like six people were just like a little bit open minded, the people are just won’t make it by and are just like rude or nasty for no reason, I haven’t said a word to them, just think for a minute what it might to like to be in my shoe. (Inaudible) is like (inaudible) a wounded animal and end up getting beaten. I have been so grateful that happened, like let this experience turn me into something I am not. It’s about me close a few times, don’t mean like close but let me say that hold on to my humanity no matter what (inaudible). Hard as it can be sometimes like, I got to once I let go that way (inaudible). Ever seen harassment and shit like that like in Connecticut (inaudible). It is nothing like it is right here, that just it because the difference in the number of people, in New Heaven, (inaudible) I may be run past a thousand people in a day, here about a thousand people walk by me in twenty minutes.
Aviva: Yeah.
Hutten: So it’s just the law of averages, I have been in so many assholes here in New York than back at home. Like I said I trying to (inaudible) into my skin anymore, try to be kind to people. Even when you on that (inaudible) I am (inaudible) just praying for them. Like something won’t change in the middle, take away that hardness and heaviness from my heart so that they can be kind to somebody else. They did get home as personally, just give them the time a day like for real.
Aviva: I am so lucky that you gave us the time a day for the archive.
Hutten: Yeah, I am glad to have been able…had the opportunity.
Aviva: Thank you…
Hutten: Thank you I appreciate it.
Conclusion
Transgender people face a lot of problems while growing up, and the challenges include low self-esteem in addition to automatic exclusion in their communities. More often, transgender children lack proper parental love which leaves them vulnerable, especially if the person is a female since they have a lot of emotions. It is recommended that people in every society should be taught on ways of accepting transgender people to curb their suicidal thoughts.