What's Wrong Here

What's wrong with this editorial cartoon?

Steve Sack cartoon

If you can't see it, then you're part of the problem. Hint, it's what this blog is about, transgender people. Where is the checkbox for gender differences? If it's missing then it's ok to taunt, harrass, and abuse transgender children and young people?

Yes, I know, an oversight, a mental mistake. But that's the problem, transgender children and young people are often forgotten in the anti-bullying effort or consider gay or lesbian and therefore covered. Or maybe thinks they're "Funny Looking"? Not.

They are themselves as any child or young person. They're not invisible. They face taunting, harrassment and abuse by others for just being who they are. It's easy to hide being gay or lesbian. It's not easy to hide being a transgender person, you wear the obviousness everyday.

While I applaud this cartoon, the artist needs to correct it, or else he's as guilty as the worst of the opposition, ignoring transgender people in the face of the violence against them.