Sooo....I got the perfect outlet to finally voice some life into the classroom on transgender issues.
Our class has been discussing the issue of gay marriage lately in essay writing and such, and so today my class got into a big debate over that and what constitutes it as a right and so on. I was one of the primary people involved in it, and another girl that was pretty much the opposing force on the issue in some regards. Anyway....so we got into biological aspects and I implied that there is evidence of homosexuality's occurrence in nature, etc. So I got challenged again and also implied such theory as there may be something biological too it, as is being slowly discovered in transgender individuals.
After class my teacher and I talked for a while and I told her I understood a lot of it firsthand, and she learned a little I was transgender myself. I worry it was a mistake, but I can't regret that now. She was on the side of it being something biological since she's heard of all the treatments we go through and such. Her reply to me was "Really?!" she was I think a little bit surprised/shocked. She said I could write my next argument paper on such accounts too to bring this out into the open more, and what not. But I know she was in a hurry to get somewhere, so we departed separate ways almost immediately following. I worry she may have been freaked out, so I don't know. She said she never would've guessed I was (I forget to say I'm pre-transition....so I think there's a chance she may have guessed I was FtM lol)
But anyway....this is my opportunity to speak out again in an academic environment on behalf of the GLBT community
