There are 700,000 transgender people in the United States (Gates). Imagine that you are one of them. You recently turned nineteen and enrolled in college. You are one of the luckiest transgender people. Your university chose not to discriminate against you based on your gender identity when you applied. You come from a supportive family, so you have the opportunity to go to college and eventually have a well-paying job and the ability to support yourself, instead of being kicked out of your house. your childhood and forced to enter the sex trade to survive, like many young transgender people (Bigelsen). Your healthcare professional has chosen to treat you despite your gender identity. For this reason, you are luckier than most transgender people; However, you still face many daily difficulties, even at your seemingly progressive university. Public toilets always present a dilemma. If you use the toilet of your anatomical sex at birth, you will likely be harassed. If you use the bathroom of the gender you identify, you risk being kicked out. There is a set of unisex public restrooms on your university campus, near the dining hall. You use them when you're nearby, but you spend most of your day in buildings on the other side of campus. You need to plan when you will eat and drink throughout the day because you don't have the luxury of using the restroom whenever you want. When you meet new people, you're often faced with uncomfortable questions and remarks like, "Have you had surgery?" or “So you really are a (wrong gender or sex).” Even after correcting people, some may choose to refer to you with different pronouns than you prefer or call you by the name you were given at birth rat...... middle of paper ... ...absolute determinations of behavior. Sex is a biological characteristic and general differences between the sexes are byproducts of evolution. Gender, on the other hand, is a man-made concept and not a biological byproduct of hundreds of millions of years of evolution. It is therefore possible to redefine and reinterpret what gender is. Works Cited Bigelsen, Jayne. Homelessness, survival sexuality and human trafficking. Alliance House. Covenant House, May 2013. Web. December 6, 2013. Gates, Gary J., Ph.D. “How Many People Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender?” » Williams Institute. UCLA School of Law, April 2011. Web. December 6, 2013. “Hate Crimes.” Tie Maryland. Equality Maryland, nd Web. December 6, 2013. “Members of the laboratory. » Visual attention laboratory. Harvard University, 2013. Web. December 06, 2013.LOVING v.VIRGINIA. The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. December 6 2013.