Defining rights and trans personhood

I have never been attacked in person because I am a trans person, the worst I have suffered is occasional mis-gendering and the odd slur back in the early days. I have the privilege to sit back and enjoy being a woman in society at large, relatively free from the slings and arrows of transphobia. Yet, is this the right place for me to be? Some argue that the dolce vida, the good life, should be the primary aim in life, that all rights should coalesce to provide the maximum happiness to the maximum number of people, even if invariably some small part of the population remains ever attempting to get there. This is the question I asked myself in the first year of my PhD, what exactly do I want to research and what impact do I want to have on the world as an academic. I could have chosen, within reason, virtually any topic, yet I decided to research how trans rights are perceived in the UK. Why? Because I decided I could no longer sit back with my personal privilege and let others fight for my personal rights. <a href="https://rejserin.medium.com/defining-rights-and-trans-personhood-6b012e1a462e">Website</a>