Gender, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

 

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.