Introduction
The transgendered people are looked upon as a segregated portion of the total population in the United Kingdom. The equality among people and indiscrimination are still something that has only in the pages of books and the transgendered people are not safe in the country. They feel they are abused and are afraid of being a victim of indiscrimination and injustice. The normal people somehow tend to alienate them. Not only the government, but the corporate sector also has a responsibility to secure their rights by applying certain governance policies. The transgendered children are to be cared as first priority.
The question of maintaining the rights of gender inequality has been a much-debated issue in the past. The striking factor is that there is a big number of people living in UK who suffer from some gender related problems ("UK a long way from transgender equality, MPs say - BBC News", 2017). The transgendered people are no sinners that they have to be separated from the society. The Government has a big duty to ensure that their rights are ensured properly. The transgendered children are the ones who are in need of proper care and treatment in the hospitals. They deserve basic healthcare support and basic education facilities. The Equality Act 2010 has stated to treat all the people in the country in the same manner and provide all sorts of facilities to them. The practical scenario is not so impressive. The biggest health organization in the country, National Health Organization (NHS), has the responsibility to look after the scenario (Dixon-Woods et al., 2013).
It has been reported that some of the NHS clinics have been injecting hormone blocker injections in the bodies of the young children. The main intention of the doctors is to prepare the children for sex change from a very early age ("NHS clinic where children are preparing for sex changes", 2017).
These steps are generally not at all supportive, as these would stop the children from developing their original sexual characteristics and prevent their proper growth. This viewpoint by NHS has been a breach of the Equality act 2010. The transgender people deserve the rights to be treated with problems like gender reassignment and confirmation treatment. The Gender Identity Services hold their rights for this but they face problems there too at Gender Identity Clinics(GIC s) and GID s for the children (Steensma et al., 2013). These situations may cause from lack of cultural competencies and the understanding of the laws. The governing body and the General Medical Council should take some proper steps and provide a set of rules for the care professionals who attend the patients (Wright et al., 2013). The Equality Act should be made stricter to ensure the proper safeguarding, make sure it is not breached and offenders get proper punishments. The rights of the transgender children should be reserved as are human beings too.
In this part of the assignment, an overview of the entire research is to be given with the support of using proper research methodologies and research philosophies.
Research methodology is a crucial part of doing a research on any topic. The practice of using research methodology is to authenticate the research work by following the scientific ways.
A research philosophy is to establish the ground of work in which the researcher is pursuing. There are three types of research philosophies that are positivism, post-positivism and interpretivism.
In this work of research, the chosen philosophy is positivism (Maxwell, 2012). The positivism approach deals the work from an objective viewpoint and it follows the historical tradition. The data provided here is based on the positive data of experience.
The present condition of the transgendered people and children in the society is viewed with the past conditions. The way the care professionals treat the transgendered children and the cases of hormonal blocking are discussed from an objective viewpoint. The historical tradition is also followed regarding the Equality Act 2010. In this way, it can be proven that the chosen research philosophy is appropriate.
Research approach is another important aspect of the research work. There are two types of research approaches- Deductive and Inductive.
In this work of research, deductive approach is chosen (Bryman, 2015). It validates the research by relying on the research assumptions or the hypothesis of the research. The data has been collected from various journals and articles that would prove the hypothesis of the research.
Data collection is very important for the research as it helps to authenticate the work (Palinkas, 2015). The two types of data collection processes are- Primary and Secondary. The Secondary data collection process is followed here that includes journals, newspaper articles and authentic websites.
In the data analysis process, the data has been analyzed with utmost care without any human errors and providing reasoning and scientific aspects. It has been analyzed by defining, interpreting, evaluating, illustrating, clarifying and comparing the data (Miles, Huberman & Saldana, 2013).
All the ethical issues of a research work regarding social, legal and political have been maintained properly. All the acts like the Data protection act and others are followed properly. The data from the secondary resources have been collected with proper permission.
There are limitations in every research work (Shipman, 2014). The researchers cannot control this. In this research, the open-ended questionnaire has been followed. There may have been some fluctuations without making any major outcome on the project. These limitations have explored new ways of studies on the research project.
Conclusion
It can be concluded from the assignment that transgendered children are facing a real tough condition in the United Kingdom. The discrimination is still very much a social problem and the evils of this have to be faced by the children as well as adults. The biggest healthcare sector in the country must provide safety for the transgendered children and the corporate governing must be made stricter to have a remedy on this. The legal acts have to be followed properly. This would lead to a society with no discrimination between genders.
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