Growing Up Trans Reflection

Transgender is the term used to describe an individual whose gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth. The documentary, “Growing up Trans”, is a sensitive clip to watch about young youths who attempt to navigate family, friends, gender, and the medical decisions they face at puberty. “Growing up Trans” focuses mainly on transitioned young youths. The transgender youth from the documentary links to many theories from chapter eight. Theories such as socialization, gender, sexuality, homophobia, transphobia, and microaggression are associated with “Growing up Trans”.
There are four major agents of socialization: families, schools, peers, and the media. In the documentary, we see how it becomes a difficult situation for the parents of a transgender child to accept what the reality is or going to be. The pressure on the child and the family is so intense that it becomes difficult for both to start a new fresh life. School environment also has an impact on the child to hide their reality. There are many questions to be answered by them. Getting along friends at school is very difficult because transitioned individual longs to be with the group opposite to their original sex. Heteronormativity pervades school life, from canonical texts, shows traditional families, to an emphasis on

The space to express their own feelings, thoughts, and needs spends a good deal of time with kid’s parents and peer groups. It shows the difficulties the trans youth face in making themselves understood by those around them, the obstacles closest to them must be defeated to take a big step about their lives. For a child to change their identity isn’t easy nor is it for the parents to accept the change from being ‘he’ to be a ‘she’ or vice or versa. To accept for the child’s happiness families, move to different towns to start a new life so the child can create a new social