Outside Reading Response

After reading the introduction to my book, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, I've gotten a short introduction into the lives of older transgender people. My personal experiences with trans people has always been only with people under 25, and I thought this was very interesting to read. Trans people have a higher rate of murder than average Americans, and higher rates than other gender sexuality minorities. People on average have a harder time being accepting people who are transgender than they are people who are gay or bisexual. However, that isn't to say that the acceptance of transgender people hasn't improved over the past decade or so. One of my favorite examples of this is a segment on What Would You Do? with one of my favorite trans celebrities, Carmen Carrera. (Watch the video, it's pretty good).