240 hours to think about fraud.
Christine Wilson has
joined an unfortunate club. This club is also known as the sex offenders
list. Ms. Wilson, or as she would prefer, Mr. Wilson has a disorder known as
gender identity disorder. This means that Ms. Wilson was born a woman, but psychologically
feels that she is a man. As a man trapped in a female’s body she posed as a
male to be able to have an intimate relationship with two minors who were
girls. Wilson pleaded guilty to the charges brought upon her and as so the
judge sentenced her to probation and community serves, as well as a free spot
on the sex offenders list. The official charge however was gender fraud, not
statutory rape. This charge had the Equality Network, who fight to protect gay,
lesbian, and transgender rights, in a bit of a fit. They felt the charge of
“gender fraud” sends a poor message to those who are transgender; that it says,
if you are transgender you have committed fraud by being intimate with someone
else. This situation has raised some tempers and for Ms. Wilson, 240 hours of
community service to think about if its wrong for a transgender person to
engage in relations.
Clearly it is wrong for a person to engage in a sexual
relationship with a minor. But is it wrong for a transgender to have relations
with another person in the form of who they feel most comfortable in. After
having read the above article, I do feel that what Christine Wilson did was
wrong, but I do feel that she wasn’t wrong in doing it as a man. Gender
identity is something that someone is born with. There have been many cases
where even children don’t feel that they are right in their skin. Ms. Wilson
should be punished for having an intimate relationship with minors, but not for
having done so as a man. I also feel that that it was wrong that Ms. Wilson was
punished for fraud, and not statutory rape. it does send a poor message to her
fellow transgender peoples. In the future these cases should be handled more
sensitively and more direct in my opinion. Punish people for what they are
guilty of, not what they psychologically think.
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