Gender Dysphoria; A Look Inside the Minds Of Transgender
Youth
When we
begin to discuss the matters of gender we instantly think two things; Male and
Female. But actually gender can get messy. Gender is kind of like a graph where
you take the most ideal manly figure and you put it on one side, and you take
the most womanly figure and you put it on the other. Everybody then ends up
somewhere in between. Sort of like this:
Blue for
manliness and pink for womanliness. Now most people would try to crunch up
towards the ends, but in reality we all fall somewhere towards the lighter
colors of blue or pink and some even fall in the red.
The reasons behind this is genetic, a hormone imbalance that cannot be treated, these people know often by the time when they start to understand gender that they are just the opposite of what society thinks.
The reasons behind this is genetic, a hormone imbalance that cannot be treated, these people know often by the time when they start to understand gender that they are just the opposite of what society thinks.
We need to
look past stereotypes of what is a girl and what is a boy to begin to
understand gender. Being raised as a man you are told don’t be a pussy, that is
for girls, you run like a girl. A man is to be anything that isn’t a woman,
right? Wrong, I think that gendering things from clothing to colors is stupid.
What I do think is that we need to focus more on a person's heart, and less on
their parts.
You may be
wondering if the person is gay and just confused. This is not the case. Gender
Identity and Sexuality are two completely different things and have their own
spectrums. Being transgender
is about gender identity — the way people see themselves
and the gender they identify with. Cisgender is the term used to describe
someone whose birth sex aligns with their gender identity. Transgender is a
term used to describe someone whose birth sex and gender identity do not align.
Being gay, lesbian, or straight is about sexual orientation
— the gender someone is attracted to. So in short, it is not about who they
want to go to bed with, it is about who they want to go to be as.
So to close I will leave you with this, gender and
sexuality are different yes, and while most people fall into the Cis-Gender
norms, not everyone does, genetics is often to blame. Nobody chooses to be that
way. Never be afraid to ask questions about a person's preferred pronouns and
the way they identify. Because to the
trans* community those are things that make their day, and things that can
change the way they feel.
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