Below you will find a letter I have prepared that can be cut and pasted as is or edited to suit your personal taste. Use the links that follow to send it via e-mail to all the important government and media connections as provided, or compose a message of your own. I am writing to bring to your attention a problem that is far more severe than you may realize. Indeed, most people never even think about it.
Transsexual people are currently the most oppressed and marginalized minority in the world.
We are being murdered at the rate of once a month in the United States alone, and the rate of harassment and non-fatal assault is far higher. This is due, in part, to the fact that we are continually portrayed in popular media as laughable, pathetic, or insane, and there is very little mention of us made in any other context. All of this happens in spite of current opinion among the world's leading researchers that transsexualism is an incurable, biological condition, originating in the womb at crucial stages of development. A recent informal survey of psychiatrists, physicians, and educators revealed that very little, if any attention was given to pointing this out as a part of their basic or advanced education. It is the growing opinion among transgender activists that efforts to lobby for equal rights and against discrimination is greatly undermined by the ignorance of both the medical profession and the general public.