Essay Two Prewriting

In the article, Yoshino defines liberty paradigm as ” to protect the authentic self” and equality paradigm as “essentializing the identities it protects”. As he describes in the article that he believes that liberty paradigm will protect our true self. Liberty protects who we are and who we want to be. However, equality identifies us as what gender we are. One example that supports that is that if you’re a woman you need to wear makeup as it is an “essential” part of being a woman. He believes that “woman was given the liberty right to elaborate her own gender identity in ways that did not impinge on her job performance, she would be protected from demands to be either more ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’.” (paragraph 32).

One group in society that has to hide their true self is those who are transgender. In the article, it does not talk about this but it is something that people face a problem with every day. They have to hide who they are from the people around them to feel accepted. They use a way of ‘covering’ to hide from who they really are. Many of those who are transgender cannot get a job people will judge and stereotype them. I believe that no matter your gender identification or your sexuality, you should always have rights that support you.