Genius Hour Project!Hello and welcome! Please let me explain why this site was created. This Genius Hour site was created for my tenth grade English class with Mrs. Sutton. I choose to do my project on Transgender awareness. As you will learn on my About Me page I am a FTM transgender person.
On this site I hope to accomplish the goal of informing other people on the Transgender community. This task will be rather difficult but a fun process. Why I choose to do my project on this rather then art or singing, simple the Transgender community is misunderstood and people don't want to learn about it. |
How do you tell people?
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Website for where I get this information is found on my resource page.
Slow and easy, take it slow they don't know how you think or how you feel. They wouldn't be able to come understand why you chose to come out or what made you come to this conclusion. Know what you are going to say before you go and announce your big news go over what you want to say, the different reations you may recieve and how you'd handle them without someone getting mad and a fight starts. Before you come out know who your aduience is. If you are afraid to tell your parents because they may not support you then I suggest telling someone you are close to like a trusted friend. Inform your self do reserch, make sure you know transgender issues. Understand questions your friends, relitives and others may have about gender identity. (Note to people who are not transgender and are here to learn more this is hard for the indiviual because they are always asked. Even sometimes people will purosely ignore the indiviuals pronouns.) If talking does not suit you try writing a letter. Writing it down helps you keep on topic and explain everything without being inturupted. I do recconmend having the letter on you when you are going to come out to a person. Practice makes perfect right? Yes expecially when you are going to talk to people about being transgender. Now that you have that information on how to come out here are some pointers on when you do. 1) Where are you telling this person? Are you surounded by other people? Is the person in a rush to do something? When you tell someone think of the place I suggest somewhere quiet and private, just to make sure they are paying attention and no one is going to listen in. 2) Be confident, don't force yourself to come out if you are still afraid to do so. It is your life, your decision on what to do with it. 3) Be patient, trust me I know it doesn't happen where everyone calls you by your preferred name or by your pronouns it takes a while. It will be rough but remember this no matter what happens don't get mad. It is new and hard for them to grasp overnight. 4) Sit and talk about coming out, no don't go about it by screaming and yelling, go calmly and lovingly it gets through easier. 5) Not going well, end the conversation. It's okay to say, 'I appraited you listening but this is all I'm going to share for now.' Take a break breathe think some more before coming back another day. |
Supporting a Transgender Person
Supporting a Transgender person is huge. Support means the world to them because going through the transition is scary and difficult especially if it feels like the world is against you. Support, is when you acknowledge their decision and call them by the correct pronouns, help when people are being mean and mentally or physically harming the person.
Now since I have heard a lot of scary things about the U.S new president, Donald Trump, and his thoughts on the North Carolina Bathroom Law. Supporting a person who is Transgender would be the best thing you can do.
Transgender people are humans like you and everyone around you. Instead of being that rude or ignorant person who keeps yelling that there are only two genders or telling someone they will never be male or female, please educate yourself before you yell your hatred. Keep this in mind most hate is branched from fear and ignorance on the topic.
Now since I have heard a lot of scary things about the U.S new president, Donald Trump, and his thoughts on the North Carolina Bathroom Law. Supporting a person who is Transgender would be the best thing you can do.
Transgender people are humans like you and everyone around you. Instead of being that rude or ignorant person who keeps yelling that there are only two genders or telling someone they will never be male or female, please educate yourself before you yell your hatred. Keep this in mind most hate is branched from fear and ignorance on the topic.
What is Transgender?
Transgender- denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex. Before you go and say there are only two genders, no there are not two genders, there are two sexes, Male or Female (XY or XX chromosomes). Sex you can't directly change, yes you can have a sex reassignment surgery, this surgery gives a person the ability to has similar sex organs as their preferred gender.
Genders are what the person feels. How I like to explain the feeling and other things is through this.
Imagine, you were born a boy, male genitals (Penis), but your parents forced you two wear dresses, makeup, act like a girl. All in all your parents wanted a girl but here you are a boy forced to be the princess they want you to be. It's frustrating you can't be who you want to be, it's like that plus the uncomfortable feeling of constantly wearing wet socks.
It's hard to understand what a Transgender person feels like and unless you are then you may never understand, but it does not give a person the right to belittle them.
Genders are what the person feels. How I like to explain the feeling and other things is through this.
Imagine, you were born a boy, male genitals (Penis), but your parents forced you two wear dresses, makeup, act like a girl. All in all your parents wanted a girl but here you are a boy forced to be the princess they want you to be. It's frustrating you can't be who you want to be, it's like that plus the uncomfortable feeling of constantly wearing wet socks.
It's hard to understand what a Transgender person feels like and unless you are then you may never understand, but it does not give a person the right to belittle them.