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Brandy Martell- 37. Shot in the front seat of her car. She had ONE article written about her in the media. 2012.

Eyricka Morgan- 26. Shot by a man living in her boarding house. 2013.

Leelah Alcorn- 17. Committed suicide by stepping in front of a tractor trailer. 2014.

Mercedes Williamson- 17. Beaten to death and buried under debris at the murderer's father's home. 2015.

All four of the women above were murdered in a hate crime. They were murdered for something they can't help but feel, and caused no harm to others. It only caused harm for themselves.

Transgender and transsexual are not the same thing.

To understand the difference between them, you must understand the difference between gender and sex. For starters, gender is between your ears, or your brain. It's what you FEEL- either male or female, neither or both. Sex is, well, your sex. Your sex is determined by your genitalia, either male or female. Gender has nothing to do with your sexual organs.

Now, people who are transsexual are those who have had sex reassignment surgery. Meaning, they had their male genitalia surgically changed to those a female would have- and vice versa. However, transgender people are those that have changed their gender. So, if a person was born male, but they dress, act, or feel like a female, and they wish to identify as a female, they are transgender male-to-female. Or mtf for short.

NewCivilRightsMovement noted that .3 percent of the U.S. population openly identifies as transgender. That means out of 318.86 million people (as of 2014), 9,565,800 people openly identify as transgender in America.

Transgender people are at a 50% higher risk of being murdered than their gay and lesbian counterparts, in the U.S.

In the majority of the states, you can be fired/not hired/turned away by companies because of what you identify as.

Thank fully, however, schools HAVE to allow the students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as. And if they don't, they're breaking a federal crime.

With transgender celebrities such as Laverne Cox, and probably the most known, Caitlyn Jenner, the transgender community had gained a lot of publicity. But with that publicity comes misunderstandings.

Many political powers have tried to pass laws where transgender people have to use the bathroom of their assigned gender. (The gender they were assigned at birth.)

This can and will cause many problems. How can you be sure someone is transgender or not? What about those on hormone treatments? Those transgender men who you are making use the female's bathroom have full on beards and those transgender women have breasts. Which bathroom do you think they should be using?

No, they are not in the bathroom to peep on your children. They are in the bathroom to do just that, go to the bathroom.

Transgender people should not have to wonder if the business they are going to will turn them away.

Transgender teenagers should not have to fear their peers at school.

Transgender people should not have to walk down the street and fear for their lives.

How can we change these things?

By educating.

We need to teach these kinds of things in school, because people fear what they do not understand.

Did you know that 41% of transgender people ATTEMPT suicide? 41%. That is not acceptable.