Growing Trans By Pb Frontline

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In the film “Growing Trans” in which PBS Frontline follows around eight transgender adolescence as they try to make a crucial decision within their family, friends, and even within themselves as they are reaching the puberty stage of life. The documentary supplies about young men and young women in which their ages ranging from nine to 19 years old the documentary provides us into seeing their feelings, thoughts, and own needs but importantly it gives us inside into the kid's main support system which is their parents and peer support group. Furthermore, there are many difficulties when it comes to growing up trans such as family members and even friends using the wrong pronouns or who cannot be able to accept their new identification. Equally …show more content…

Since we are born a gender and we tend to identify with that gender that goes with the manner that is very visible, when a child wants to identify with a new gender, they need to learn how to act like the gender they want. A notable example in the documentary is a young transgender man name Daniel that is learning “how to be a guy” he is learning through his friends. However, this really does not go towards everyone who has friends who helped, in this documentary, there was a transgender girl whose name is Ariel in which her mom moved her to a new town so Ariel to be able to have a new social life as a transgender girl, her new friends tend to see Ariel as a girl and nothing else. Ariel does provide another view into the transgender community such as the topic of pregnancy and giving birth which is a common topic once girls enter puberty. There are many different medical bits of help that are available to standardize to make Ariel's life as a woman more …show more content…

I want to say it goes into our reading with “TRANSNATIONAL SURROGACY IN INDIA Interrogating Power and Women's Agency” in that part that states,” Transnational surrogacy in India, as Dehere, reflects many of these concerns with power, inequality, and stratified reproduction, in which disparities in gender, race, class, and nation place some women's reproductive projects above others.'(Daisy Deomapo) When a transgender woman won't able to have children, they can have help from a surrogate which doesn’t mean they are less than a woman who had given physical birth however, most people consider it as them being less a woman since they didn’t care the baby or even when through labor, this also shows the power in which controls others resource one's own interested, since this might stop many transgender women into wanting to have surrogate but not only power is considered stopping someone but also wealth, it's extremely