How can I stop myself from being depressed in Health class? In health, you learn about reproduction and body organs and this will trigger depression and I'll feel worthless all day about it.

I took a college class called human sexuality. it was a biology class, so you could say it was just glorified sex ed, but it is required for my minor. although it wasn't like high school sex ed in the States, where in order to get funding it must be abstinence-only. i guess the point was to help us make good decisions with our sex lives. but we had to learn the names for male and female parts, and be able to identify if given a picture - so depressing. Although we did briefly touch on gender and gender identity (those were my favorite sections).

I would feel the same way. I would just imagine and tell myself I had the male anatomy. I have a really good imagination and Thats what helped me get through. I also worked with a guy friend when doing a worksheet, and the class was working with the same sex people. that also helped. It's hard but you can get through. Imagination is pretty much how I got through.

Quote from: gilligan on January 27, 2011, 07:51:00 PM
I took a college class called human sexuality. it was a biology class, so you could say it was just glorified sex ed, but it is required for my minor. although it wasn't like high school sex ed in the States, where in order to get funding it must be abstinence-only. i guess the point was to help us make good decisions with our sex lives. but we had to learn the names for male and female parts, and be able to identify if given a picture - so depressing. Although we did briefly touch on gender and gender identity (those were my favorite sections).

This semester im taking a class called phychology of human sexuality. i opened the book to a page showing a completed mtf vagina and ftm penis. I was thinking "this might get interesting.

Quote from: michaeljay on January 27, 2011, 08:24:15 PM
This semester im taking a class called phychology of human sexuality. i opened the book to a page showing a completed mtf vagina and ftm penis. I was thinking "this might get interesting.

my textbook also had those types of pictures.

^did you talk about it at all in the class?

very briefly. not more than 15-20 minutes. although we did watch a logo documentary on people who identify as genderqueer. one of them IMO was more of an ftm since they were transitioning.

I have a horrible imagination. I can't imagine anything unless I can see it happening. I do try to imagine I have male parts but then that evil little voice conscience thing tells me I don't.

In high school I took an online health class to get out of having to take the one in school.  It was from Brangham Young University, so the sex part of it can be summed up as "Just don't do it kids."  The whole class took maybe 5 hours to complete.  Would that be a possibility for you?

Quote from: Lee on January 27, 2011, 09:32:08 PM
In high school I took an online health class to get out of having to take the one in school.  It was from Brangham Young University, so the sex part of it can be summed up as "Just don't do it kids."  The whole class took maybe 5 hours to complete.  Would that be a possibility for you?

No.

Yeah I'm taking a health class right now and it kinda makes me feel like crap. Especially since most of the class knows I'm trans so I feel like they think of me differently... you know because I don't have a penis or anything (and when I go to the class it makes me REALLY dysphoric about my lower bits). The teacher also doesn't know I'm trans (just knows me as a guy) and he said things like "If you don't have a penis, you're a girl" I know he didn't mean this directed towards transgender people, but it kinda pissed me off....

I don't really know how to deal with it, so I just try to feel confident as a guy that I am a guy and this class is meant for other people and doesn't totally apply to me, you know?

One health class that I took was about safe sex and how sexuality works. There was a big thing about gender and sexuality...oh, and there was a bit of stuff about male and female bodies and how they are similar. So equating a female piece to a male piece based on development. It was actually kinda awesome.

EliJames: I would have felt miserable if that happened to me. Not everyone in my class knows I'm trans, actually no one in that class knows I'm trans. The teacher is a pregnant woman which I find funny for some reason. If the teacher ever says something like that then I'll have to leave and go sit in the office because I will not start crying like a 4 year girl in front of everyone.

try to dissociate yourself from either sex during class?

iuno my health class was as much about not drinking and driving as much as it was about sex.  I just didnt focus much on the sex part.  It wasn't of any interest or concern to me at the time, so I didn't bother.

If you can't get out of it, and you can't disassociate yourself from it then you're obviously left with only one sane option of attacking the teacher and getting sent away... or I guess you could take an iPod and attempt to discretely turn your music up loud enough to block it all out/read a book/do other work/anything that takes the attention off what is being said.

Where I'm from we don't have these classes. Might be the only ones in the West not to.

Some places your parents can allow you to opt out of them.

text books in high schools that explain ->-bleeped-<-/transsexualism? with pictures? where did you guys go to high school? i never had any of that and it was only almost 6 years ago! not yelling at you, but still maybe that would have helped me realize sooner ya know? i don't know we were just beaten over the head with every detail about every std, especially aids, and how God awful teen pregnancy/teen parenting is. it was just a never have sex ever class. and this isn't even a bible belt region.

I'd definately go with what Lordkat said, try to get you parents to write some letter for you so you can get out of it and sit in the library for the hour or however long your classes are. i got out of a few gym classes that way from this bullying problem i had so it's possible.

Personally I got a pass and went to the nurse. I wasn't faking sick because talking about it really did make me sick. By the time I got back they were half way through and for the last half I kept my books on the desk and read a book. I figured if the teacher bothered me I would say I had already taken the class before so I didn't feel I needed to take it yet again. Plus they showed all these nasty pics of what various types of STD's looked like when not treated so I put my head down because I wasn't going to let anyone make me look at that. My teacher just ignored me really. Hopefully it goes okay for you man. 

I sit beside one of my guy friends and we joke about everything the teacher makes us do in the class. If I get sad I just zone out and think of sex my way.