Her Name Was Steven

I was watching this show called Her Name Was Steven on CNN yesterday and truthfully........... it shocked me. The documentary was about a man named Steven Stanton who lived a happy life with his wife and and teenage son, until he started questioning his gender. He felt as if he was a women trapped in a males body. The documentary showed the struggles he went through, including the transformation, family matters, and his job. This guy was fired because he wanted to be a women. This is what makes me mad because you cant fire somebody because they want to be somebody else. They thought this was untruthful and fired him. This is SO unfair. How can you fire someone if they're not happy with their appearance. I don't understand why they deemed this as an untruthful. Its NONE of their business! It's his personal life and they have to respect his decisions, without involving his personal life with his work life. This would be a different situation he killed someone, because that's a very serious matter, and this is NOT! Personally the people that made that decision are idiots. Well in my eyes, I see them as complete idiots. I don't know how they took a mans job away just because he changed his appearance. We say that we don't judge people on how they look, but we sure do according to this matter. I know that some people may think that getting a sex change is wrong, and against nature, but you can't bias your beliefs into a mans future. I don't think these people had any right to judge him on his personal decisions, and manage to fire him. That makes no sense at all. In my opinion these people obviously have no minds of their own, because somebody should of stood up and stopped it. Clearly it's to late now, and nobody will learn from this, because honestly it takes people forever to learn from there mistakes, and sometimes it takes to long and it will be to late. This also has to do with job discrimination. Even though we like to hide the fact and say that it never happens well it DOES. This is a perfect example too. It displays all the negative characteristics about our cruel, cruel society. Sometimes we need people like this. Sometimes we need people like this to wake us up, to help us open our eyes when they aren't willing to open. I know that probably nobody cares about this because it doesn't affect them. Nobody cares because it doesn't involve them, and that's sad. To know that humanity is that selfish, to think that we don't have to have empathy if it doesn't include us. Why were we even born with the trait of empathy? It's not as if anybody uses it. I don't even know why we have hearts. Of course we need them to breath, but we all know that nobody uses them to love. Steven Stanton quotes "it takes a real man to become a women", and it does, because I bet nobody could have the courage to deal with the public humiluation he went through. As much as people love to think that he deserves this for being such a "freak", the people who made the decision are the real freaks.