The tolerance towards people who decide not to continue living in the gender they were born in, or who like the same gender has grown as time has passed. However, it is still something that is seen as obscene, improper and disrespectful to some, especially people with strong religious beliefs such as Christians, or Catholics.

Gender identity refers to "a person’s innate, deeply felt psychological identification as a man, woman or some other gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned to them at birth." The progressive state of our society nowadays allows those people to enjoy a freer life, but only in certain places.

This can be seen as same-sex marriage is legal in all the United States, and even in some other countries, such as Canada, Spain and the Netherlands. However, as a part of society is moving towards a more accepting phase towards these people, another part is getting further back from progress.

Nowadays, males are expected to be masculine, and strong in the same way women are expected to be feminine, and caring. Defiantly, there are strong activists who have strong beliefs about gender identity shift tolerance and who will not tolerate the demeaning way some people are treated.

Throughout the past few years, there have been countless protests about gay, lesbian and transgender acceptance as members of society are becoming aware that we all deserve to live in peace of mind irrespective of our decisions, as long as they don’t harm anybody. We can see that society’s going through a phase of progress as laws, public opinions and policies have been modified, and change mostly for the benefits of those who don’t live on society’s rules.

I believe that all the change is happening as more people are realizing that regardless of whom a person chooses to love, or be, we are all the same.