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Transgender

(Padang, 2010)

Transgender is condition where someone feels uncomforted with their gender physic condition then changes their gender to opposition gender. They are feel, act, and think or looks like different with their real gender, such as a men looks a girl or woman looks like a men, or maybe someone who had been change their gender with medical operation, so they manipulate everyone with their new gender. In our campus also we can see a little of university students do transgender, even not until medical operation. There are some causes why someone do transgender, but there are some ways to handle it too.

A lot of them feel not comfort to be a man or a woman and then he move on their gender. For this case, of course the first way to handle is advice them, how their family viewpoint, how society’s viewpoint, and how religious viewpoint about that. And the most important is their soul. Sometimes, we see that someone who transgender feel better be the real “other” gender, but actually so deep in their heart, they unhappy. Because they trap in other gender body, a man who trap in woman body or vice versa.

Other reason is condition since born. When born, their psychic condition was a man, but in their growing precisely their attitude and character most feminine. When they childhood, the difference attitude of course was began seeing. But many families precisely support it indirectly, such as let them or keep at a distance from them. Even, any family which formed them to be likes opposition gender. It is usually happen in families which have children almost all of girls, and only a boy. A boy is to be like their sisters. So, for this case, the key is family have to give more attention for their children. And families also have to treat them as the natural tendency.

The environment also became effected for transgender. Such as friends, they must be spending their time with them. If a man most close and have many girls’ friends, of course it can add in serious condition for transgender. So, if they are a man, they have to associate with mans too and vice versa. For Muslim, it may be can handle by “Pondok Pesantren” if in Indonesia. Pondok Pesantren is a place to study but mostly in religious, and usually consist of the same gender. So, it is can learn them how to attitude as the natural tendency. Other ways to handle this case, such as take them into “establishment” specialy for people like that, or in Indonesia we called Waria.

In conclusion, someone who transgender, they have many causes. We have to know why they do that, because if we don’t know, we can’t look for the way to handle it. After we know, we can get the solution. Nothing impossible in the world, and so difference attitude like transgender must be can we handle it.