Personal Narrative-Transvestites

It's so important that CAITLYN is standing for the trans community right now. Trans teens and adults are constantly berated, treated terribly, and sometimes KILLED around the world just because they're born within the wrong body. It's so important that such a huge figure in media transitioned because it has the possibility of opening a safer, welcoming environment for those who face the same issues with gender identity and their body.

Have you ever been picked on, and been told who to love? I have, and it sucks. When the movie High School Musical came on TV, I was watching it with my older brother Tristan. Zac Efron came on the screen, and I told my Brother that I thought Zac Efron was cute. “GROSS” He yelled. He told my Mom, and Dad, I was so embarrassed.

In “Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Transvestite in the New World” by Catalina de Erauso, a female-born transvestite conquers the Spanish World on her journey to disguise herself as a man and inflicts violence both on and off the battlefield. Catalina discovers her hidden role in society as she compares herself to her brothers advantage in life, as they are granted money and freedom in living their own lives. Erauso decides to take action of this act of inequality by forming a rebellion, as she pledges to threaten the social order.The gender roles allotted to both men and women in the Spanish world represent the significance of societal expectations in order to identify the importance of gender in determining one’s position in the social order in the Spanish World.

My mother never told me the complications of becoming a woman in this world. Maybe she thought I was strong enough to figure them out on my own. Or quite possibly, she couldn't tell me, because she never really knew how to face the complications herself.

I’m a non-binary transgender black person. Personally, I don’t know anyone else who is transgender and identifies outside of the Western gender binary. I have a very lsrge interest in psychology and how the mind works. I find it absolutely fascinating. If I receive the opportunity to attend any of the Telluride Association’s seminars, one of my goals is to be able to experience what it will be like to engage in intensive college curriculum. As a Cambridge magnet student, I am currently taking three classes at a college level in order to work towards my Advanced International Certificate of Education, or AICE diploma. I am enrolled in AICE Sociology, AICE International History – European Option, and AICE General Paper/every day I am exposed

My name was announced. The silence in the room allowed me to hear the judges’ pens scratch through my concise, four- letter name. With my baggy blue button- down, and all black dress- pants on, I proceeded down the auditorium aisle and onto the stage. Even though the crowd consisted of only around 30 uninterested students who purposefully displayed their lack of care, I still felt a pressing audience. Turning to my public- speaking teacher, I acknowledged the “you-may-begin” nod and turned back to the crowd, realizing what I had gotten myself into.

Hi could I please have an iced skinny cinnamon dolce latte with coconut milk please? My name is Courtney Travaglini, currently I'm in my cold home state of Maine. However you are about to learn is not my "home" anymore. My husband and I are stationed in North Carolina and have been there for the past two years. Thanks to Starbucks transfer program and love of the military I was able to transfer back to Maine during my husbands deployment.

was lucky enough to have a childhood that was fairly even-keeled – I celebrated almost as much as I grieved, and laughed as much as I cried. Even though I entered into the adult world with a balanced upbringing, I still couldn’t help but to feel that I did not develop a voice properly due to one significant event.

Watch the video "Growing up Trans" and read the articles thoroughly. Then use examples and evidence from these sources along with your textbook for full credit. Failure to use these sources will result in a zero.

I was born on a late August’s night, in Longview, WA, at St. John’s hospital. While time rushed by for everyone, for my parents it was almost as if time stood still as they gazed down at their baby girl. They named that beautiful baby girl, Averi M. Klein. As a little girl, I loved the color pink and like to dress up in frilly dresses. My playmates were the boys that lived next door and we would go out into the little wooded area behind our home and play.

Enke’s argument - that feminist geographies, or those locales where feminism is practiced, even if it’s not explicitly acknowledged as such, exceeded the reach of the feminist social movement, is reminiscent of Valentine’s in “Imagining Transgender”, which sees the academic/institutional category of trans unable to contain the transgender experience, although for different reasons. Valentine argued that it is the queer capacity of fluidity within the trans experience that allows it to escape formalized expectations. Enke, on the other hand, maintains that within the borders of a patriarchal society where space reflects the sexism of the day, feminism’s liberatory project is ubiquitous enough to transcend the stigmatized spatiality of gendered politics. For example, an all-women’s softball team taking the diamond in the male-dominated theater of sports during the 1970’s needn’t overtly proclaim their gender politics to be considered doing (interventionist) feminist work. These porous boundaries allowed an influx of lesbian feminists, who productively reveal the cause of feminism as intertwined with that of lesbianism. This conflation of sexuality and gender permitted the reclaiming (and redemption) of lesbianism from those who used the idea of same-sex attraction between women as a shaming mechanism to socially control heterosexual-appearing

In this paper, I will be critically considering the perspective of gender through a trans women’s experience and back ground from my personal favorite show, “Sense 8”. During this process, I will be explaining how people are represented by the images, stereotypes, and social norms which are conveyed in this series, while also considering the questions provided in Supplement 21 of the course text.

We already brought you part one of this article about the richest transgender celebrities out there, many of which have made it a point to become inspiring symbols for other people out there struggling with identity issues. Some of these you may have heard of, others maybe not, but either way you'll likely learn a thing or two. Here is the second part of our list.

I am a curvy woman and proud of it!!!!! I believe that I can inspire other's to be confident in their own skin. When I was younger, I was forced to cover my curves so that other's would not look at them. At one point, I was ashamed of my body type and couldn't understand why I wasn't smaller. I'm glad that there's a platform now that focus on women of all body types. I've also been in the consumers position, and have struggled greatly with finding jeans that fit correctly. I LOVE the fact that Good American caters to such a wide variety of women. I want to empower other's all over the world, advising them that they are amazing just the way they are! It would be a honor to be apart of such an amazing team and brand.

Being myself around others is easy, but becoming myself is what has truly defined me. I had to discover my authentic self, despite the overwhelming input and expectations of everyone and everything around me. Genetically, I was born into the world female, but inherently, I knew I was transgender before even learning that “gender” was a word. I used to believe that someone had “made a mistake”, because I was arbitrarily born in a girl’s body. But now I know, that was exactly where I was supposed to be. It would have been easier if I was just born genetically male, but I know my time spent living as a female and my time spent living as a transgender male has enabled me to accept, appreciate, and have the ability to communicate with people from all walks of life. The limitations, unwanted attention, and stereotypes that accompany being transgender could have easily broken me, but instead I have geared my experiences towards forming myself into the confident, fearless person I am today.