What is it like to be transgender? It’s probably hard for to think about what it could possibly feel like to be a transgender individual, if you are not one yourself. I can imagine it is especially hard for people that are not transgender to understand what it’s like for their mind and their body not to match. I, however, can tell you exactly how it feels and what it is like. My name is Melissa Cavazos. I am 19 years old; and I am transgender.
The definition of transgender has become widely used over the past couple of decades and its meanings are still being established. However, it is typically used to describe people who move away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who cross over (trans-) the boundaries that were created
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Why this happens, I will never understand. I wake up in the morning and do all the normal things everyone does, I grab my phone and look through all my forms of social media. I mean come on, who doesn’t do this? I respond to missed calls or text messages, then I get up. I brush my teeth, wash my face, get dressed for work, grab a cup of coffee, and then head out. I work as a waiter at a local restaurant here in San Marcos, which isn’t all that bad…most of the time (Question 3). But every now and then I’ll hear the not so low whispers and I’ll notice the stares that last just a little too long. “Is that a girl or a boy??”, ““She’s definitely a dyke”, “Is she transgender?? That’s so weird”, “She must be so confused” (Question 5). It’s gotten to the point where if I only hear things like that a couple of times a day, then it was a good day, adapting to these things is necessary for people like me. Then you get the people that are up front about their curiosity and even though they aren’t trying to be rude…they are. The one I get the most often is “So since you’re transgender you must be like super liberal right??” (Top 10 Myths About Transgender People, 2016) or “So if you want to be a boy, you like girls right? Wouldn’t that just make you gay?” and my personal favorite “You know I could tell you were transgender before you even told me.” (Question 6). I don’t
The great feminist theorist once said “‘Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they don’t see it, but because they see it and don’t want it to exist’” (Mook 195). Support becomes very important for transgender people at the time they transition. Many families support their transgender family members, but society rejects their transition. Many people want transgender people out of their communities.
Through American Literature many writers have given a voice to the once silent. Sandra Cisneros, a writer was one of those contributors. Very few writers of her time, explored and brought to light what she did. She started a movement in the United States and within her community to bring to light the issue that once were overlooked. The Stories, poems, novels and essays she wrote touch the lives of many people, of all walks of life. Cisneros did not have the best childhood but was able to overcome many obstacles through her life. Born in Chicago, Illinois into poverty to her first book The House on Mango street selling more than six million copies (Cisneros, 2017).
Transgendered people have a different and unique fight than the rest of the community. Transgendered peoples not only have the issues of “coming out,” (as others in the communities do) but also becoming a different gender. There are different obstacles that Trans people have to face.
So what does transgender mean and what is transgender identity disorder? According to the American Psychological Association," transgender" is "umbrella term whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they wer...
Transgender is an umbrella term, meaning an individual’s gender-identity does not align with their assigned sex at birth. Although transgender is a protected class in eighteen states, these individuals still face discrimination within the country and around the world (“Non-Discrimination Laws”). Transgender is not a lifestyle, no one chooses to live their life constantly being discriminated against. Transgender issues should be more educated on and their lives should be more protected. The most common issue transgender individuals face every day is bathroom use.
The choice to suddenly leave your own home to live in a whole new country is extremely difficult. Immigrants face many difficult obstacles along the way, and even after they arrive. In “Exile”, “My First Free Summer”, “All-American Girl”, and “Antojos,” these struggles of immigration are portrayed through Julia Alvarez’s view. Alvarez portrays her own experience, the complexity of cultural dilemmas, and the struggle to fit in as she incorporates Spanish language and figurative language throughout each or her pieces.
When an individual identifies themselves as transgender, it means that they feel that their biological gender does not match with their psychological gender. To put that into a simple man’s term, the individual feels they “were born in the wrong body”. For example, a man feels that he was meant to be born a woman and vise-versa. It does sound rather unusual, but why should that matter? An individual should be able to make his or her own decisions about how they live their life. Unfortunately though, not everyone feels the same way about this. That is how the controversy is created. This is why transgender rights should be strengthened in America not only because it is morally correct, but also because it would ease the lives of the people within this group, reduce the discrimination and harassment rates of transgender individuals, and help establish awareness.
Mollie Jensen is an accountant living and working in New York City, who begins romantically involved with a client she has assigned by her firm is a charmingly-handsome but shallow womanizing executive named Albert who seduces her and although married embarks on an affair with Mollie, promising to leave his wife for her. Mollie becomes pregnant with his child. After realizing she is pregnant she informs Albert who takes the news well and again promises to leave his wife and raise the baby with her. Mollie continues her relationship with Albert as the pregnancy develops, something that found it was fantastic because explain step by step how a child develop since the day of conception.
Barbara Sanchez is a recognized model from Venezuela; she was born in El Tigre Anzoátegui, and since she was a little girl, she dreamed of becoming a model and the next Miss Venezuela, although it was not until she was 17, when together with her mother, they venture to move to the capital to search for an agency and makes her dream came true. Everything started with the casting to be the next Miss Venezuela but because she was underage, she was told to come again next year. Without losing her time, the same week she was already on the catwalks but not like a Miss but as a model. This experience was repeated many times, so many times that she forgot about the Miss Venezuela. Over the years, her mother remained her first goal, and 4 years later when she was modeling in an event where the present of Miss Venezuela also
Like any other ordinary teenager, I have the desire to be accepted by my peers. However, living in a society that excludes others who do not meet the expectations of norm can make fitting in a challenge; especially towards someone like me, a transgender teen. For the most part, not many people know this about me. Holding me back, with shame I must admit, is the intense fear of being rejected by others. Yet, on a daily basis I must confront this anxiety and risk placing myself in a position where my identity meets constant subjection to someone else’s judgement.
In today's world there are many different sexual identities a person can adhere to, instead of just being heterosexual or homosexual. What a sexual identity is, is how one refers to think of oneself in terms of whom one is romantically or sexually attracted to. A type of sexual identity is when a person both male or female feel like they are inside the wrong body and they wish to have a sex change. Individuals who identify themselves as transgender aren’t usually adults, in some cases it is children who go through the stages of feeling out of place with there bodies and wish to change it. Some people in today's society would find it very odd that children would wish to be in a different body, in order to understand why this is happening you would have to know what exactly is transgender and transsexual, what causes transgenderism, and the early signs of transgenderism. This phenomenon has been around for a very long time and due to the fact that there is a large misunderstanding there is much confusion when faced with it. In order for one to understand how children become transgender or transsexual one must know what transgender and transsexual mean, what causes transgenderism, and the early signs of it and be mentally prepared for what is to come. Most of the responsibility in understanding transgender children falls on the parents of transgender children.
Questioning whether the environment you grow up in alters the mentality you develop as you become older has never been more appropriate for Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros, a Latina, feminist, and poet, grew up in a low-income community in Chicago, Illinois, born into a home with a Mexican father, Chicano mother, and six brothers. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, but as a child continuously moved back and forth from Chicago to Mexico. She declares that, as a child, she was not content with her Chicago community; defining it as an unfortunate portion of town deprived of wildlife and splendor. Cisneros found her escape in books,which pursued her to receive a B.A. in English at Loyola University of Chicago.
Imagine going through life believing that you were born into the wrong body. This is how a transgender feels as they go through life. A transgender is a person who whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to male or female sex. This topic is very controversial due to many arguments about the differences between the male and female physique. The natural biological differences between males and a females play a huge role in this controversy.
However, they want to be referred to only as a man or woman. But what if our gender identity, our sense of being a boy or being a girl, does not match our physical body? From a very early age, we will start to feel increasingly uncomfortable. For some this is a mild discomfort, for others it is so traumatic they would rather die than continue to live in the wrong body. Unfortunately, as transsexual people are a small minority of the population, the condition has been labeled by Psychiatrists as "Gender Identity Disorder".
No one wants to feel like they do not belong or like they are not cared for. Transgender people are just like everyone else and deserve to be treated equally to cisgendered people. According to Sam Killerman, being transgendered means living "as a member of a gender other than that expected based on sex assigned at birth." This definition is extremely important because a transgender person is still a person.