In high school , there were a group of girls and only one
guy would hang around with us. As girls
we already know that Jason had a secret he was not telling. The other students would call him fag or
guy. He would play church and dress up
in dresses as though he was a mother of the church or in the choir
singing. However, the older he got the
more he hanged with girls. After
graduating from high school he went to college and begin to blossom as a young
woman. He had a transgender operation
and now SHE wears dresses, get her hair
done and now is a beautiful woman. I see
her no different from me. I am not fond
of what he has done but I treat her no different than my other female friends.
My other encounter is a student years ago told another
student that he was gay. I ask her why
you said that, she replied because he is always playing with the girls and
never the boys. He stays in dramatic play
and cooks and cleans. I then told her
that young boys and men can clean, cook and take care of children just like
young girls and women. I also asked her
what does gay mean. She told me that gay
is when two boys like each other. The
child was three years old and she could tell you a lot about gay and
lesbian.
I believe that diversity should be taught in the classroom
and that we should discuss different issues at hand. I have had a parent who did not want her son
to play with baby dolls. I told the
parent that playing with dolls will not make him gay or less than a man we he
grows up. The dolls may help and
encourage him to be a great father in the future. Parents are very denial but eventually they
come around to reality.
