Mommy Bear Book Report

There has been much discussion about transgender adults in recent years but lately there has been a shift to the discussion of transgender children. Growing Up Coy (2016) is a documentary about a 6-year-old transgender. The documentary follows Coy and her family through a time where Coy’s parents fight for her rights as a transgender individual. This film discusses childhood gender-variant behavior, discrimination and prejudice, and proposes many questions about one’s opinions of being transgender, gender identity, etc.

In the documentary, Noah, an 18 year old male to female transgender, many people in school ask question about her gender over and over again. Because of the harassment, many tend to drop out from school. “Harassment and bullying lead almost one-third of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning) students to drop out of high school” (T Salazar). For most of them dropping out from school means working at a lower wage. Or even worse they became homeless. Some people argue that we should create a separate school of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students. However critics say that it means of “segregation or shielding the youth from the real world.” Giving a class about LGBT people in schools might be the solution, since students then will be aware of it. Education about LGBT people teaches not only students, but also the whole generation. Therefore, schools should be the primary targets to teach the society about LGBT

The young girl in the story is struggling with finding her own gender identity. She would much

The main setting of Trans-Sister Radio is within the small town of Bartlett, Vermont. The primary focus is set on Dana, a chromosomal-male college professor who is in the process of transitioning into the female gender. As a male, Dana is well-received by her community, even though she is perceived as strange and effeminate. She forms normal romantic relationships with women, has a fulfilling career, and is admired by those surrounding her, however she still feels incomplete. Unfortunately, what is missing from Dana is not externally noticeable, it is intrinsic happiness. From a young age, Dana suffered from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder that causes individuals to experience serious distress due to frustration with the sex and gender assigned at birth (APA, 2013). To alleviate the traumatic pain that has burdened her for decades, Dana makes the bold decision to partake in complete gender reassignment surgery. Trans-Sister Radio challenges the prototypical ideologies of character growth, morality, and relationships through its descriptive insight on transsexuality and thus gender.

In her book “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Woman, and the Rest of us,” Kate Bornstein goes over a lot of the major issues regarding gender awareness and identity politics. She talks about the ideas of labeling ones self, understanding gender differences, how people view laws, behaviors, and the medical and scientific privilege that make transitioning challenging for a lot of people. Bornstein touches on many of the issues today that affect trans people. She includes poetry, pictures, quotes, essays, and a play to raise questions and discuss the idea of gender. This is a great book to introduce and discuss the issues that affect the lives of trans people as they navigate and explore the lines that define gender.

All people are born to survive. Hannah and Cole had to survive harsh environments to ever see their family's again. But they will learn totally different lessons to help them in the future.

There are a lot of people in the real world who are just ignorant about transgender people. We need someone to educate the world on this. An essay written by an 11-year-old transgender child named Sadie Croft has been circulating in social media, bringing its clear call for transgender equality to wider attention. The essay, titled "Sadie 's Dream for the World," envisions a time when the discrimination and stigma that transgender people face on a daily basis at every age will be over. Sadie writes, "It would be a better world if everyone knew that transgender people have the same hopes and dreams as everyone else. We like to make friends and want to go to school. Transgender people want to get good jobs and go to doctors like they are exactly the same. It really isn 't that hard to like transgender people because we are like everyone else" (Michelson, 2013). According to Huffington Post, Sadie began transitioning in kindergarten socially, and her moving words come on the heels of President Obama 's historic inauguration speech, in which he called for gay and lesbian people to be treated like anyone else under the law. It is so encouraging to see a transgender youth coming out at an earlier age and showing the world who she is. Her stories are piling up, and awareness is in the atmosphere. Sage has an awesome family, who supports her and gives an inspiration for other parents out there less ashamed of finding out their child is transgender. We still have a long way to go in

Teaching about these orientation would be helpful not only to kids who identify as queer but to those who identify as heterosexual because they could learn how to support queer friends or decrease heteronormativity. The LGBTQ+ community is becoming a big part of society because of the increase in activism and the recent supportive law for same-sex marriage. Despite that, there is still harassment and homophobia. In my school, it is not uncommon to hear someone use gay as a derogatory term even in the year of 2015. Even more often, a teacher or student will state something borderline homophobic such as making a comment on a boy wearing something ‘feminine’ or a girl cutting her hair short. I firmly believe that like Sadowski’s student says, “I feel it is especially important…to include the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people into my curriculum…” (59), these issues can improve through teaching of LGBTQ+ through curriculums such as

As I exhaustedly cried myself to sleep last night after May’s suicide, the thought of you never left my mind. I thought of writing down my feelings, instead of drowning in them, in a letter that you will never read. Years ago, you were in front me but, ever since the day you passed away, I wake up every morning with the reminder that you are a just a living memory. And if life is as short as they say it is, then I guess we are going to meet again sooner than I think we will...

Goldilocks eats the three bears’ porridge and deals with it in such a manner that it cannot be restored to the condition that it was in before she took it. Goldilocks deprives the Bears of the porridge absolutely, making it theft.

Growing up, I owned a stuffed Winnie the Pooh bear. I loved the show, and loved Pooh even more. On Sundays, I would dress my Pooh bear in my sister and I's doll clothes and bring it with me to church. One Sunday, an older kid at Sunday School mocked my Winnie the Pooh bear, because Pooh is a boy but I made mine wear a dress. At the young age of 5, I didn't understand why Pooh couldn't be a girl to me, even though the character from the television show was a boy. I left Sunday School that day sad and confused. I always thought of Pooh as a girl, and it crushed me to find out different. I decided I would change my favorite character to a girl character, get a new stuffed animal, and let her wear dresses to church to avoid getting mocked. However,

Sexual orientation and gender identity are two things that members of the LGBTQ community often fear opening up about. They fear that they will be rejected or harmed because of who they are, and it is important that we make all aspects of our society a safe place for every human being, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. As School-based risk and protective factors for gender diverse and sexual minority children and youth: Improving school climate explained, “64% of students feel unsafe at school because of sexual orientation prejudice, and 44% feel unsafe at school because of gender expression” (American Psychological Association). Therefore, schools in America should be making a conscious effort to make their buildings a safe, comfortable place for members of the LGBTQ community. Schools can do several things to promote the

Summary: Before going to sleep a brother and sister duo plant mysterious seeds. From these seeds grows a flowing vine and a big white bear. This bear has a magical hat that he is able to pull monkeys from, blow amazing shaped bubbles, and transform flowers into sea creatures.

In the beginning of every story the hero must accept or deny their call to adventure and for the LGBT youth this dilemma comes between accepting their sexuality or choosing a life of secret suffering which they will not be able to act out on their passions and desires compared contrasted between heterosexual people who don't have a problem accepting their call. According to the William Institute at the University of California Los Angeles, about 3.5% of adults in the united states are either gay, bisexual, or lesbian which is a very small percentage of the population which is predominantly heterosexual. Growing up and living in a world that is geared towards heterosexual relationships can be hard for any LGBT person who is trying to even understand their sexuality and where their place is in society, especially when it is deeply rooted in Judeo-Christianity that traditionally has held very strict rules concerning homosexuality and sex in general.

There were three bears who lived in the woods. There was a Papa bear, Mama bear, and a Baby bear. A little girl named Goldilocks, goes for a walk in the forest and comes upon a house where she enters and finds to her delight three bowls of porridge. One day when they left their house, a Goldilocks walked into their house. The bears had made porridge. Goldilocks tried the first one Papa bears’ she tastes is too hot, the next Mama bear too cold but the third Baby bear one just right so she eats it all up. Goldilocks finds that three different size chairs where she tries them out and finds the first one Papa bears too hard, the next Mama bear too soft, and then the Baby bear just right but it breaks when she sits in it. Goldilocks felt tired