Blurred Youth: Transparent and without labels, I am simply me
By Julie Nitori
Posted on December 17, 2012
http://www.dailytitan.com/2012/12/blurred-youth-transparent-and-without-labels-i-am-simply-me/ What are boys made out of? What are girls made out of?
This is something that I've thought about a lot, not only throughout this semester as I began to write for this column, but various times throughout my life when I was faced with decisions that would drastically affect the perception that others had on myself, my gender and my sexuality.
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We are all inevitably ourselves.
But by living according to the standards of our society and by the judgment of our peers, we still struggle to try and fit in somewhere. We label ourselves to show alignment, to show strength and to believe that we are not so alone because we possess feelings that only we ourselves know how to feel.
At the beginning of the year, I began to debate if I wanted to transition into becoming a girl; whether or not pills, surgery or simply the clothes I wear would determine that outcome, I wasn't sure. All I knew was that I was at a loss for who I was.
Simply, I don't feel right being a boy or calling myself one.
