My short narrative feels a bit out of place. I know one transgender in my life who recently began to take hormones; however, I do not know much about the confusion that they feel. I wanted to try to write and understand a lifestyle I myself am not a part of. I wanted to break down the confusion and figure out how the process may begin.
The idea started at the gym. I thought about my life several years ago when I thought I could change my appearance, then I began to break down how much I can easily change in comparison to the people around me. I thought about the other people in the LGBT community and how hard being a transgender could be.
My courtship and marriage aggravated this thought. I spent thirty minutes in class today listening to Dr. Stover talk about the legality of the syllabus. I put on my coat and threw my backpack over my shoulder making it up the few steps to the professor who packed up his things. I asked a simple enough question, “Are you going to discuss alternate lifestyles?” He explained that ‘cohabitation’ will be the only thing that may factor into alternate lifestyles. This appalled me. This course supposedly teaches ‘social diversity’ but only expands upon the knowledge that my heterosexual classmates learned from varied media since birth. I just wanted to take a survey course in Courtship and Marriage giving me a broad understand of both homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual rituals dealing with both.
As I left the class, one of my fellow classmates came up to talk to me. He pulled me aside in the hallway and explained a second course that might be closer to what I talked to Dr. Stover about. He even mentioned the fact that this course brings a transgender into the course to explain some of the things in which we study. This Human Development and Sexuality course dealt with all the social diversity Courtship and Marriage should entail. However, the course did not hold the same level of importance to the university. It did not cover the social diversity goal that such a course should have.
Although I came up with the idea of the short narrative a few days ago, it did not truly capture me until today. I wanted to actually explain the diversity I wanted to see or at least come to some sort of explanation that I could understand. If I did not capture the emotions right, please let me know. I want to expand my knowledge of the topic and try to see things from a perspective I do not fully understand. Please comment, and let me know if I should change things or how to change things.
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