I have always wanted to be able to do something or the Transgendered community as a whole. What better way them the use of a powerful blog platform. Right?

I have already started writing and posting a series of blogs about my life experienced growing up trans in the south. It was something I could never forget. I want to take that and the negative publicity that the trans community has received in these recent years and turn it into a positive and something that can help raise awareness of the "Third Gender", as some people put it. Some people argue that being trans is a choice, I am here to put that rumor to rest.

Being transgendered itself is not a choice. It is a psychological "illness". The correct term that a person can be diagnosed with is Gender Dysphoria. Gender Dysphoria is the condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex. Therefore it I not something that you choose to be. Rather a "Deformity" of sorts that you are born with and shows itself as early as you being able to show your personality.

The best example I know to give you is the one and only Miss Jazz Jennings herself. If you are asking yourself who is that, she is an American transgender teenage girl, YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality and LGBTQ rights activist. She is known to be youngest known transgendered female from the age of her diagnosis at age 2. She has since then has become a rights activists and an amazing young girl.

The first ever widely known trans woman to go through with the Gender reassignment surgery is the one and only Ms. Christine Jorgenson. She traveled to Denmark to undergo an extensive and then primitive sex reassignment surgery in the year of 1951. When she returned to the United States a few years later she became a news sensation. As her transition as the subject for many newspapers at the time.

I know that there are many wonderful trans men and women throughout the years who you may have heard of. There is just way too many to list. I know there are pressing issues against the trans community at this time. Such as the bathroom bills and the horrible stigma coming from it. That is just one of the issues pressing us right now along with healthcare reform and each and every state or body of government is ran by different views and some have even shown us their true feelings on the matter.

The way that I plan to use SteemIt to promote Transgendered Awareness is by posting and speaking about the issue every chance I get. This is no longer just my problem. If we let this discrimination and hypocrisy continue to exist then the fate of future generations is looking deadly.

To read my first installment of My Life Transgendered in the South:
https://steemit.com/medical/@transbeauty/my-life-being-transgendered-in-the-south