Personal Narrative: The Bellamy Brothers

Instead, the article further educated me on the inner thoughts and experiences that are associated with being FTM transgender or transsexual. As a cisgender individual, or someone whose gender and biological sex are the same, I am unable to empathize or related to the experiences of transgender and transsexual people. The inside look that the article provided me was appreciated and granted me a deeper understanding of what it is like to be transgender or transsexual, especially regarding how they are socially perceived. Before reading the article, I knew that transgender and transsexual individuals did not feel that their gender matched their biological sex. Through the article, I learned that while that may be true, they do not always feel pressured to change how they physically appear to identify as a gender other than one representative of their biological sex. There are many factors they consider when choosing to transition or not. The factors include: how they want to be perceived in social interactions – as a man or not as a man -, family and friends, loss of their trans or queer identity, and feeling like their gender and sex match (Dozier, 2005). However, regardless of if they transitioned, once the individuals were accepted as their desired gender, the individuals felt more comfortable breaking gendered norms, like presenting as a male but wearing nail

My youth pastors Justin and Bob are people that I have always looked up to and wanted to be like. They worked for the middle school and high school groups so I spent a lot of time learning from them. I have gone on many trips with them such as backpacking in Yosemite, mission trips to Mexico, houseboating at the Sacramento Delta, and Snowboarding trips to Tahoe. They taught me so much from a young age about respect, and most importantly being a man of god. I feel like being around Justin and Bob as well as the rest of the church as helped keep me from getting into trouble and given me morals to live by. I still go to Carmel Presbyterian Church when I am visiting home and still really enjoy it even though I am back to sitting in the Sanctuary.

I believe that women are just as competent as men and should be treated equally.

While someone may look like a male, they are acting as a female because they identify as a female. There is nothing wrong with going against the biological factor you were born with. Society can not force you to be someone who you decide you are not. Evidently, Pascoe has found another study that states that gender is the “activity of managing situated conduct in light of normative conceptions of attitudes and activities appropriate for one’s sex category. ”(468)

This day today is a hard one for all of us. Losing a loved one is the saddest event in our lives. When you lose a loved one, your heart feels heavy and sad. And that’s what I am going through right now.

This past 2 years have seen more and more transgender characters displayed on our screens than ever before. I do feel like this representation is amazing and some cases have done our community proud in so many ways but of course some have not been so good.

Kidd and Witten define the term transgender vaguely, stating it “describe[s] people who transcend the conventional boundaries of gender, irrespective of physical status or sexual orientation” (Kidd & Witten, 2007, p. 36). This term is a reference for the ‘other gender’ that is not particularly male or female. Currently, within the American society, there is a growing awareness of individuals who are transgender. Much of this awareness comes from LGBT movements and

Out of all the negativity, there are Trans people who are positive about moving forward in the gaming world. There are people like Nicole Modjeski who would never have the courage to come out without being able to make avatars that reflect how she felt inside. Especially in a Mississippi where things tend to be a little more conservative, she says “Big cities like New York, Los Angeles may have opportunities. Places like Mississippi are just as important and those opportunities to be who we are and understanding will grow over time” (Modjesky). Anna Anthropy created ‘Dys4ia’ not only to share her store about going though HRT (hormone replacement therapy) but to add to the growing list of noted (?) trans characters. Anthropy’s games “are ambassadors

Not all transgendered individuals desire a sex change. However, if a client wanted a sex change, a psychologist must verify if the change will have a positive effect on the patient’s psychological well-being. In an interview I had with a trans-gendered companion, she stated that she would not go for a sex change until the time was right. Her reason was that if she was to have the sex change now, she would endanger her friendships with many people. While this reasoning didn’t come from a psychologist, the resultant sex change must be beneficial to the client or else the operation is useless and will cause more detriment to the individual’s psyche. After medical treatment, hormone therapy is used to get rid of secondary sexual characteristics. In addition to hormone replacement therapy, clients may get surgery for breasts, genitals or other sexual characteristics; clients can also just use hormone therapy alone so that they can alter their bodies to appear more like their self-identified gender.

I never dreamed of being in a band, not in a million years. One day I was at the monthly Jam at Center Stage Vintage Guitars. I always had a great time jamming with the people there. And I always brought my banjo to the jams. It started out just like they usually do when all of a sudden this guitar player came up to me and said, “I got to talk to you.” I was confused and felt like a cat with no claws because I didn't know what he wanted. He looked funny because his extremely curly hair was as long as a redwood tree. He introduced himself and a bass player next to him. The guitarist was Greg Sanders and the bass player was Neill Jones. Neill looked as short as a middle-schooler, although he was twenty three.

Now let’s go back to a much more basic, established and dangerous reality I stumbled upon these last two weeks as I was editing an academic book about the many forms of contemporary “paternities.” Yes, you heard it right. The book reproduces articles and panels from a Psychology Congress that took place last year, whose main subject was, as the title describes, a variety of possible family arrangements concerning children’s care in a world where diversity of gender is the highest value.

My family has lived here in Oregon since the before the war between the states, and family tells us stories of the good times before all these japs started taking over. Around the turn of the century or so it started to seem like these people were everywhere. It all started with the building of the railroad. The companies brought in those people to build the railroad, and now that the railroad is completed they will not leave. To make matters even worse there is an effort by their leaders to get them to strike for the same pay as us white people that work for the railroad. There has been extremely little or no effort on their part to become like us Americans. I was walking through town the other day and what did I see, there was a huge Buddha statue in front of a new Buddhist temple. They can't even go to church like regular people.

Am I my brother’s keeper? I have continuously asked myself this question since I was a child. My understanding of the question continues to grow, as I get older and wiser. In my opinion, people are more inclined to develop thoughts about their legacies as they age. My case is no different. When I have the time to meditate and just think, I often wonder about it. How will others remember me? How did I affect the world? These questions, along with a burning desire to heal (in any capacity whether it is spiritual, physical or mental), have strongly influenced my decision to become a cardiologist. I believe that my disadvantaged upbringing, uniqueness, and desire to see change in deprived communities will help me achieve my dream: making a difference as a cardiologist.

The "Before" narrative is why the two brothers end up on the other side of the war? Why maybe because each brother has chosen a different side on which to fight. And they didn't know which side they both were fighting. Or because they didn't want them to fight in the same war together. The "After" narrative of what happened when he saw that he kill his own brother, is that he felt bad because he wanna to kill him, but didn't know it was is own brother who he was going to kill. What had happened is that he took his brother's body in his harms and hug him and cry because it was his brother that he killed, and that will be his hand that he kill his own brother in war, And thinking about what he is going to tell his family and friends that he kill

Many transgenders go through gender reassignment surgery, also known a ‘sex change’- a series of medical procedures that includes hormone therapy and actual genital transformation surgery. The procedures are extensive and taxing and, not to mention, very expensive. The cost for male to female reassignment is usually $7,000 to $24,000, while the cost for female to male