Personally, I consider discrimination as one of the worlds biggest problem.

Unfortunately is not
a new issue but one that has haunted humankind since its beginnings, especially regarding people that
have other sexual orientation than heterosexual. In this category, we can distinguish as well
discrimination against transgender persons.
A quick search on the internet shows the multitude of hate crimes against transgender people.
This April, in Baltimore a women named Kelly Young was murdered in her home. She was initially born
as Rodney Little and her and another two transgender women have lost their life within the same month
across the United State. Even though it is hard if not impossible to determine whether a crime is a hate
crime the statistics should raise a flag for people throughout the globe; according to NCAVP, there were
30 documented cases of anti-LGBT homicides in 2011, and transgender women made up 40% of the
murders, and 87% of the victims were black.
As I was saying, this type of discrimination is not new, such as in the 60 psychologist John
Money was promoting his gender assignment theory that claimed that gender is learned rather than
innate. Therefore, in 1966 he met a newborn named David Reimer who had been left without penis
because of a failed circumcision. His advice to the childs parents was to change the boys gender and to
raise him as a girl, thing that was eventually done, and David has now become Brenda. This was
followed by years of intense therapy with doctor Money. Using Davids twin brother as a control study,
the psychologist claimed that the gender reassignment was a success. Here it seemed that the battle
between nature and nurture ended, favoring the last one. In fact, David was put through some intense
psychological traumas. In addition, in his despair for his experiment to work, dr. money had the twins
mimic intercourse acts in which Davis was supposed to assume his role as a woman. He was not feeling
like a girl at all and because of that, he had had threaten his parents he will commit suicide if he has to
see Dr. Money again.
After more than ten years of intense psychological damage, the twins parents decided to stop
the visits to Dr. Money and tell their son the truth. Once he knew, he immediately returned to his birth
gender and managed to reconstruct his male genitalia through extensive surgery. Eventually he got
married and had three children. Unfortunately, both twins had tragic fates. David lost the fight with
depression while his brother had to deal most of his life with schizophrenia. Even though the magnitude
of the impact that Moneys experiment had on the fate of the twins cannot be proven I believe it is
wrong to assume that is a light one.
Nature and nurture battles are a much-debated subject in the world of psychology primarily
because there is not enough evidence to support either theory. In consequence, we do not know exactly
what defines us as male or female, and for that matter the fear of the unknown settles in and that is
why I think transgender people are such a source of indignation for the average person.
I strongly consider that this experiment should be widely popularized for it will raise awareness
among people regarding how in matters of peoples identity, nature will always rule over nurture no
matter how hard one tries to change that because no individual is like other and personality and identity
cannot be put in strict category. With that been said, hatred on transgender is simply wrong because like
the failed experiment of doctor John Money shows us, they are only trying to become their true selves.