Wake Up with The Opposite Sex

My life started with my long and hard birth on July 14, 1993. I came into the world with a large scream and was immediately placed into some sort of category. The doctors and nurses took a quick look at me, and pronounced me as a girl. This social label of being a girl was now my gender, which is something I had no say in. Every since that very moment in time where my parents were told I was a girl, I have been treated according to my gender. This meant that my parents automatically dressed me in pink, bought me dollhouses and kitchen sets and threw me Barbie themed birthday parties. Since I was surrounded my whole entire life by these things, it was almost like second nature to think and act the way that I did and still do. My

Imagine being the opposite sex of what you are right now. How would you feel and what would you do to make sure you are accepted for who you want to be? According to source B written by the Macmillan Social

Gender transition: The process in which individuals begin to live and identify with the sex

One similarity between my middle school self and my current self is my personality. Throughout middle school, I was always upbeat and very outgoing. I loved talking to new kids and making people feel welcome. Positive reinforcement was definitely my forte. At any sporting event, I was the girl cheering the loudest--and usually losing her voice. In middle school, I would express being outgoing by performing ballet and doing forensics. I also would sing at my church. I am proud to say that I am still like this today. It is such a pleasure to be able to brighten someone’s day, which is why I am so happy that, in this case, I have not changed since middle school. Besides my personality, I also look very similar today as I did back in middle school. My hair is still black and very straight. My height, sadly, is also pretty much the same as it was a few years ago. I have been sporting the five foot two inches stature for a long time now. Makeup has not come into my life quite yet on a daily basis. In middle school I never wore makeup for a few reasons: I was too lazy, my mom did not want me to wear it, and I flat out did not know the first thing about makeup. Now, I am still too lazy to put on a full face of makeup, and I do not have the knowledge as well. So, I choose to just not wear it. Additionally to my similarities to middle school and now, my friends are the same. My best friend, for the longest time,

In class, we have learned and discussed how during the period of adolescence, it is known that this is the period of time where individuals are finding themselves and figuring out where they belong. It is during this time where individuals are the most sensitive and personal problems tend to arise more commonly during this stage. A major issue adolescents struggle during this stage is gender identity and sexuality. Adolescents are trying to figure out who they are attracted to and how they perceive themselves to be. While the norm is to identify oneself as their biological gender, there are those who develop gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is a reoccurring feeling that one’s biological gender is the opposite of one’s sexual identity (Cole,

At times life can seem so random, it’s scary. Everyone has a place on this little Earth we share. First and foremost, we are all children born from a mother but for many people, that’s where our similarities end. As a little girl or boy there is a big wide worlds of innocence and possibilities. Your born gender already influences you, depending on where you live, how many siblings you have. Maybe you lived close to the city and loved

Basically, I’m a girl, who just happened to be born into a male body. I don’t think that this is the most shocking thing, but it may be confusing. I haven't always been very comfortable with who I am, so I tried really hard to fit into the boxes that other

I also changed because I am more open and show who I truly am. If it’s the weekend I really don’t care about what I wear out in public I will throw on my straw hat, jeans

     This paper takes a look into the lives of three males breaking out of their gender

Since birth your gender has been predetermined, however, what if you felt you were not that gender and decided you were the opposite gender? Let us pretend you got sent to prison, which sections would you prefer to be sent to? Would it be by how you identify or your given sex when you were born? In the book, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, written by Angela Davis it is about the mass movements that have changed our society as a whole, to continue pushing ourselves to improve, and not stick with the norms. Davis mentions how we should not get comfortable with the thought of a binary structure, it is not just males or females anymore. Something that can get confused is the difference between gender and sex, both are different. Sex is determined

society still doesn’t accept the fact if the person wants to change or transform their gender

First, I want to leave behind the old me. It isn’t the fact that I didn't like who I was, it’s that I spent too much of my time gossiping or listening to drama. I want to free myself from that because it drained my energy and I really think I became blind and lost sight of who I really wanted to be in High School and in my future. Getting out of high school and going to a new place means I can change who I am. I do not mean change myself and a drastic way, but I want to be sure of who I am and what I want. I hate

If you truly want to bring about a change in the way you look and feel about yourself all you have to do follow these 6 easy steps:

Culture and society shape and mould us into who we are in today’s world, and it is apparent that the fluidity of culture and society is held responsible for one’s gender to change over time. In the East, most transgenders in countries such as India and Thailand challenge cultural and social norms to claim alternative gender in this world. In the West, however, most transgenders define themselves as the opposite gender than the one others would consider as matching the one they were born. Looking at the example of a male identifying as a female, Lewins (1995:48) mentioned the tensions intertwined to the culture one was born into to the confusion of one who

My behavior along with the clothing change was affected and my attitude got worse. My behavior then began to have a negative effect on me in school during high school.