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¶ … life -- relates to how sexual, cultural and religious biases can have a horrible impact on people who are different. In this film, the need for understanding is very strong because Noah is a boy who feels more like a girl. In this class we discussed transgender situations that call for tolerance and fairness towards others who may be quite different. The important concepts discussed in class made a very strong impression on me because before I became a member of this class I have to admit I was not keeping an open mind about people who are very different from me. The film and this class connected me to my own experiences. I admit I was prejudiced against cross-dressers, against men changing themselves sexually into women and females making changes that turned them into men. "Transgender" to me meant someone trying to be something that person really wasn't supposed to be. I have now learned to accept those who go through transgender changes.
It was difficult for me to accept people whose sexual lifestyles are so different from what I used to believe...
But by taking this class, I now hesitate to use the word "normal" because using that word makes others different from me as "abnormal" or weird in some way. Fairness in society means keeping an open mind and this class has helped me have a more open mind.
The film was very helpful in a learning sense because when the mother, father, and step-father of Noah explain their thoughts, it helps the viewer get inside the family and helps understand the emotions and social stigma the family has to deal with when a son is actually experiencing life as a woman. The part of the film that demonstrates how, in the first 3 months of pregnancy, a woman's baby becomes a male or a female is very well done. The narrator explains that female have XX chromosomes and males have XY chromosomes. And when the pattern becomes XXY or XYY and XO, the gender of the fetus can become confused. The narrator says that 1 out…
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The following dependent variables are proposed by the researcher based on information gathered from the previous research: marital status (Swan & Mazur, 2002), feelings, socioeconomic status (ACPA, 1995; Sanlo, 1998), self-esteem (Armino, 1993), and birth gender. References American College Personnel Association. (1995-Sept). Domestic partners project research. Richmond, VA: ACPA Standing Committee for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Awareness. Armino, J. (1993). Racial identity as development theory: Considerations for designing leadership programs. Campus Activities Programming, 25(8):40-6. Eisner,
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