Birth Does Not Define Gender

From a time people are young to a time they grow up, they are looking up to someone. That someone could be parent, grandparent, celebrity, etc. These children growing up are influenced by the people around them. They see straight couples together, they see gay couple together and they know that their own future is bright.

What happens when a little boy sits in front of the tv and sees a woman and thinks how much he wants to grow up to be like her. To wear feminine clothes, makeup, have big hair, a soft voice, and have totally confidence in himself. Only, boys do not grow up to be girls. He knows he will grow up to have a deep voice and a big built figure because that’s how all of his older brothers are built.

He slowly grows up, secretly wanting to be the person he can never be. At first he will either try to pass himself off as gay or straight male as that is what he has seen on tv.

It is not until later that he turns on the TV and see a woman who was born a man standing proudly in a dress, big hair, and softer voice. He looks into her and finds out that she is transsexual. Her gender was the wrong one assigned at birth.  She was born a he, but is able to be who she truly is through confidence and her doctors help.

People often mix up what sexuality is and what gender is. Being Transsexual/ gender is also a change in gender as well. What sex people are born with is not who they may be and that is not their sexuality. That is their gender regardless of the name, Transsexual/gender. It is not necessarily a change in sexuality. It is mostly a change in gender. That is so the person can be who they are inside.