In the past years, such as America, Canada and some other countries, the discrimination for transgender people is decreased. However, the fact is there are still some regions where they only allow cisgender women to enter. Even in some parties or clubs, some transgender people say that they feel more likely to be tolerated, but not to be embraced.
Furthermore, the accommodation for transgender people only stays in the surface. Let me name an example. I went to a bar once where it didn’t say only cisgender people allowed. I went in and I was spotted by a cisgender acquaintance who was a transphobia. He came to me hoping to pick a fight. People started to look at me and a few more transphobias joined him. Suddenly there were a guy coming to stand in front of me and put this fight to an end. I thought he must be one of the transgender admirers, so I came to him and planned to say hi. What he said really disappointed me: “I don’t want anyone to get hurt, but that does not mean I want to be involved in it”. So I respected him and left right away. I know it takes some time to resolve these issues, but my point is to let people know transgender females are also human-beings who should be respected.
When I realize there are a lot more various experiences for each transgender woman, I think there are still a lot to be resolved. Actually, it is not as hard as you think. Just respect our sexual identity and respect our rights to do with our bodies. The other way to help transgender people is to understand them and learn to refer to them with the right pronouns and respect the way we perceive the world.
What is pathetic is a small group of anti-transgender activists have gone too far. They have so many confusions toward the word “cis”, claiming it has some anti-female meaning. This is totally wrong and meaningless. The existence of the word “cis” is indeed caused by the existence of “trans or shemales”, but it only exists to distinguish us from the lucky ones. It offers people a convenient opportunity to mention cis women, instead of “women women”. What is more, by accepting the word “cis”, you accept the other existence of women, that is transgender women. Please use this language, even if there is no transgender around.